About
Resonating Fields is an arts-research collective exploring soil bio- and ecoacoustics — the sounds made by living soil. We work across two strands: developing the science and understanding of soil sound as a monitoring tool, and bringing that science to life through immersive listening installations and exhibitions.
We believe that listening to soil opens something that data alone cannot — a felt sense of soil as lively, inhabited, and worth caring for.
Members
Rye Hickman
Co-founder · Researcher · Artist
Rye is a PhD researcher at the University of Greenwich and Rothamsted Research with the UK Food Systems Centre for Doctoral Training. Their research explores the politics of soil and how different ways of knowing shape human–soil relations. Through the arts and participatory research, Rye works to cultivate more reciprocal relationships with soil and is a co-founder of Resonating Fields.
Thomas Martin
Co-founder · Researcher · Farmer
Tom is farm manager at Good Small Farms in Stroud and recently completed his MSc in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of the West of England. His diverse career in food and farming spans catering, butchery, and regenerative livestock production. Now a new entrant farmer developing enterprises at Good Small Farms, his MSc research — drawing on a BSc in Sound Engineering and Production — explored how low-flying planes may affect the ecoacoustic properties of agroecological soil.
Oli Hattingh
Co-founder · Researcher
Oliver is a second-year SoCoBio PhD researcher studying the links between soil ecoacoustics, soil structure, and biodiversity. He is testing the validity of sound-based monitoring as a practical, non-destructive tool for farmers and land managers, using both controlled lab work and field experiments.
Ella Browning
Co-founder · Researcher
Ella is an ecological researcher based in the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on using ecoacoustic approaches to understand species responses to environmental change and nature recovery, with a particular fascination for bats and their use of echolocation. She is currently exploring passive acoustic monitoring for assessing soil health and identifying fauna-specific sounds.
Alex Montgomery
Co-founder · Researcher
Bio coming soon.
Samar Khan
Artist · Researcher
Bio coming soon.