The Sound Leaves

by Brad Rose

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The Sound Leaves
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In Collapse
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From Brad...

"The Sound Leaves" began as an interactive sound performance and installation based around humans’ impact on the environment and how that impact is altering the sonic landscape of our world. As ecosystems change due to climate collapse, the sound of those ecosystems changes too. "The Sound Leaves" used an amplified collection of autumn leaves to encourage participants to listen closely to how their actions alter the sounds of the fallen leaves by walking on and through them for a period of time. By amplifying these sounds, processing and mixing them live, and playing them back via a set of speakers directed at the installation, the performance heightened the sonic changes participants’ actions create.

From that performance, a sound piece by the same name was composed using the recorded sounds with additional instrumentation. It was installed as a temporary exhibition on site at Philbrook Musuem of Art during the winter of 2023, emanating from a grove of oak and elm trees.

A year later, as the climate crisis worsened, those same sounds were reprocessed and reconsidered, creating a more ghost-like approach, "In Collapse."

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releases February 6, 2026

All music composed by Brad E. Rose at The Jewel Garden in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Audio from the live performance was recorded by Natty Gray Watson.

"The Sound Leaves" was performed and installed Philbrook Museum of Art.

Thanks to Kate Green, Nathan Young, Carl Antonowicz, Lisa Marie Evans, Natty Gray Watson, and Lawrence English.

"The Sound Leaves" was supported by the Artists Creative Fund, a program of the George Kaiser Family Foundation in partnership with CACHE and Tulsa Community Foundation.

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