postWinterreise
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cyclical sound environment
supplemental materials & portfolio
The below photos, videos, and links 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, Tanglewood Linde Center, Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, and Sansusī Festival.
postWinterreise PRESS RELEASE / "climate, history, music, experimental art meet in postWinterreise" (PDF)
ESSAY / Science, Art, 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 SubstackCONCEPT PAPER on the 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.CONCERT PROGRAM Tanglewood / world premiere (PDF)
Concert program from the premiere, including the final program note and an index of data and sound sources for each song.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. postWinterreise annotated performance excerpts, from Tanglewood, Shanghai, Sansusī, and the multi-year development process of postWinterreise with annotations on the work’s musical, scientific, and technical structure. All audio is from the world premiere performance at Tanglewood on 25. April 2026.
8. PRESS
INTERVIEW postWinterreise on ARTillery with Demien Geter
INTERVIEW postWinterreise on Big Sur Podcast
ARTICLE postWinterreise in Shanghai
ARTICLE postWinterreise and Changing States Symposium on Art and Ecology at Tanglewood
PRESS RELEASE Boston Symphony Orchestra Press Release
PRESS PHOTOS
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)
Marlene Heiss, Andrew Munn, Nova Krause, (Shanghai Concert Hall)
Behind us is Daniele Lucchini's (on left) projections, featuring his footage of the Hallstätter Glacier on Austria's Dachstein. (Shanghai Concert Hall)
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. (Shanghai Concert Hall)
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 Hilary Scott)
Elenora Pertz, pianist at the installation central flow. (Photo Credit Hilary Scott)
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" (Photo Credit Hilary Scott)
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. (Photo Credit Hilary Scott)
(Shanghai Concert Hall)
(Shanghai Concert Hall)
postWinterreise merges artistic practices from chamber music, sound art, theater, ecological art, and artistic research.
music: Franz Schubert
poetry: Wilhelm Müller
bass: Andrew Munn
piano: Elenora Pertz, Marlene Heiß
live electronics: Jared Redmond, Nova Krause
video design: Daniele Lucchini
cyclical sound environment, data sonification and scoring: Andrew Munn
field recordings: Ludwig Berger (glacial recordings), Sabrina Bühn, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Kilian Jörg, Daniele Lucchini, Andrew Munn.
neck piece research, design, and creation; aesthetic consultation: Margherita Pevere
technical development & score supervision: Jared Redmond
musical & conceptual thinking: Jacob Greenberg, Marlene Heiß, Andrew Munn, Elenora Pertz, Jared Redmond
environmental data: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Centers for Environmental Information*
technical advice: Samuel Hertz, Timo Kreuser, Phønix16, Sebastian Reuter, Grieta Silina
producers: Qingqing Ji (Shanghai Concert Hall DigiMuse), Natsumi Kirscher (Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel), Armands Sils (Sansusī Festival), RR Sigel (Tanglewood), Karen Schriesheim
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