A real-time walk through Fort Tryon Park to the Heather Garden in upper Manhattan — scored with the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. The Liebestod — Isolde's transfiguration at the opera's close — builds from near-silence to complete dissolution.

Laid over an open garden in April, with the Hudson visible to the west and the city receding below, the music finds a landscape that matches its logic.

Expansion, bloom, the sense of something releasing into open air. Part of Aufbruchmatt: a year-long scored walking practice pairing Wagner's twelve operas with walks through New York City.

📍 Route: Fort Tryon Park → Heather Garden

🎼 Score: Liebestod (Act III) — Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner

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