Hello Taiping Mountain, My Old Friend.

Fan Qinhui, records sounds of a quiet trail in Taiping Mountain, Taiwan to find warning signs of environmental change. Qinhui says listening can help you create a relationship with land—and listening in the quiet trail isn’t about hearing silence, it’s about hearing clearly.

Taiwan’s dense population and narrow land doesn’t make it easy to hear nature without people, cars, or planes–so Qinhui records at 5 am before anyone arrives. She isn’t focused on the quietness of the quiet trail–she’s documenting sounds of a monsoon, forest birds chirping in the fog, and how sounds change in the four seasons.

Though Qinhui didn’t study biology, she’s gradually created a unique sound map. She’s translated this sound map into a website where you can hear what species there are and see what they look like. She encourages everyone to take the 1km path quietly, and change our way of listening and reconnecting with the land.

Director
I-Hwa Cheng

Producers
Yudistira Dilianzia
Yuhong Pang

Editor
Sabrina Sinaga

Director of Photography
I-Hwa Cheng

Additional Camera
Lueh-Chia Chang

Sound
I-Hwa Cheng

Editor-In-Chief
Keshia Hannam

Head of Production
Stephanie Tangkilisan

Post Supervisor
Syarifah Sa'diyah

Color
Nadya Sabrina

Sound
Ernesto Suarez

Special Thanks
Laila Chin-Hui Fan