Nolan Sprangers

Biography

Nolan Sprangers (he/him) is completing a PhD in Musicology and is also a student in the School of the Environment’s collaborative specialization in Environmental Studies. His research interests include twentieth-century Western art music, music incorporating sounds of nature and / or electronics, and the environmental impacts of industries required to produce live and recorded music. Nolan’s dissertation, currently titled “Stravinsky’s Media Ecologies,” explores an ecological view of Igor Stravinsky’s music by examining the composer’s poetics as they relate to nature, and by critiquing the his reliance on natural resources to produce recordings on pianola rolls, shellac records, and vinyl records as well as to tour internationally via ocean liners, cars, and airplanes.