postWinterreise
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cyclical sound environment
supplemental materials & portfolio
The below links are to PDFs that give a detailed view of postWinterreise, the cyclical sound environment, and the narrative woven around the project.
The below press photographs are from performances at the Shanghai Concert hall and Tanglewood Linde Center
1 Score - postWinterreise (PDF)
The performance score of postWinterreise shows the dissolution of Schubert's music, its interaction with field recordings and the sound installation.
2. Essay - Science, Art, and Personality and the Discovery of the Ice Age (PDF)
An exploration of science and art in the work of scientist and poet Karl Schimper, whose poem "Ode to the Ice Age" coined the term "ice age." The essay is framed around Schimper's poetry, his rivalry with Louis Agassiz, and geologic evidence of glaciation in the landscape around Tanglewood. Also on Substack
3. installation concept paper - cyclical sound environment (PDF)
Paper describing the cyclcial sound environment, written in March 2025, during initial research. It describes a more extensive system than has been presented, but communicates the basic principles of the installation.
4. Tanglewood program - (premiere) (PDF)
Concert program from the premiere, including the final program note and an index of data and sound sources for each song.
5. press pack - postWinterreise / "climate, history, music, experimental art meet in postWinterreise" (PDF)
6. Cyclical Sound Environment Development Video, filmed at A Circle Studio in Berlin and by Daniele Lucchini in Austria, submitted to DigiMuse Festival in advance of the installation's premiere in Shanghai.
7. Performance Excerpt, postWinterreise (premiere), No. 21 Das Wirtshaus Tanglewood Linde Center. Archival Film from Daniele Lucchini
The central flow of the installation is a suspended block of ice, melting over a metal panel. Both elements are wired with dynamically controllable mics and transducers. (Shanghai Concert Hall)
Pianist and artistic researcher, Marlene Heiss, with the central flow and aquarium. The aquarium is sounded by a transducer and re-amped by a hydrophone. (Shanghai Concert Hall)
Nova Krause and the Cyclical Sound Environment at the Shanghai Concert Hall.
Behind us is Daniele Lucchini's (on left) projections, featuring his footage of the Hallstätter Glacier on Austria's Dachstein.
The "tree" is a dry branch attached to a transducer. The sound (of voice, piano, or sonified data) sent to the transducer vibrates the branch, and becomes audible when it touches any of the installation's surfaces.
The stage as arranged for the premiere of postWinterreise at Tanglewood. (Photo Credit, Hilary Scott)
The J Curve of atmospheric carbon levels is a re-occuring motif in the piece (visually and sonically). Here, it is drawn (the chalk on wood is audible) while the piano plays a fragment of Schubert's Rückblick that follows a similar "shape." (Photo Credit
Elenora Pertz, pianist at the installation central flow
Oil barrels and trashcans have featured in the installation. Here the trash can, it is being touched b a metal rod that follows the same principle as "the tree"
At this point in song No. 7, a climactic musical phrase is disrupted by the sonification of the climate J curve bring played through the metal rod and amplified on the drop panel. Jared Redmond controls the routing of the sound within the installation on the right side of the photo.