TLI Presents: postWinterreise

Andrew Munn, bass Elenora Pertz, piano Jared Redmond, live electronics RR Sigel, creative producer postWinterreise for voice, piano, electronics, and projections

An ice slab hangs by a singer and pianist as they embark on Franz Schubert's Winterreise. As they venture into the cycle’s twenty-four songs, the music begins to dissolve. Nearly imperceptible at first, it fragments at a rate correlated to two hundred years of glacial ice melt. Momentary gaps widen into chasms, bridged only by orphaned pitch and timbral material. Rare bursts of intact music emerge like stands of old-growth forest — memories of a nature, a winter, that once was. 

Between the remains of Schubert's score, the sounds of glaciers, traffic-clogged highways, electricity’s hum, rushing water, trees in wind, birdsong, human words. Field recordings and the disintegrating music weave together and reverberate through the melting ice. 

In postWinterreise, music, sound, ice, and water are cyclically linked in a dramaturgy of environmental and physical transformation — asking who we will become in a world where winter itself is becoming a memory.