The Architecture of Trees is an immersive music performance by cellist and maker Maya Fridman with vocal quartet Storm in a Jar. Music is interwoven with electronic layers derived from recordings of ancient trees, created by sound designer Antal van Nie. Together, sound, space, and movement form a musical ritual that encourages the audience to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with what a forest can mean.
At the core of The Architecture of Trees are two new pieces by composers Scott Ordway and Rob Zuidam, unfolding as a single dramaturgical arc. Inspired by the myths and texts in which trees become speaking beings — from Algernon Charles Swinburne’s poem Hertha to the Norse world tree Yggdrasil — the music explores our emotional and symbolic relationship with nature.
