The cyclical sound environment is sound installation, an instrument and a system to amplify and transform sound through the physical characteristics of matter. It harvests the sound of voice and piano, and transforms it into physical vibrations in the ice, metal, and wood elements of the installation. These vibrations transmit a physical trace of music into the matter. This trace is picked up by contact microphones, geophones, and hydrophones embedded in the material, and amplified for the audience to listen from within the ice, metal, and materials.,

In a performance and installation Andrew will present the installation, sonified climate data, with the music of Franz Schubert in one of China’s premiere music and technology festival with pianist-artistic researcher Marlene Heiß, video artist Daniele Lucchini, and media artist Nova Krause.

music: Franz Schubert
poetry: Wilhelm Müller
bass: Andrew Munn
piano: Marlene Heiß
live electronics: Nova Krause
projection & video design: Daniele Lucchini
cyclical sound environment & data sonification: 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
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
DigiMuse producer: Qingqing Ji

The cyclical sound environment was developed in residencies and working periods at Sansusī Festival, Henry Miller Library (Big Sur), and A Circle Studio in Berlin.