Weathersongs is a project to create music from the ever-changing patterns of the weather as recorded by an electronic weather station. The project has a number of elements starting from an installation which composes music in real-time through to musical interpretations of both real-time data and information collected over days or even months.

These project elements are as follows:
  
Real Time: Installation

The first phase of the Weathersongs Project was the construction of an installation which composes continually evolving music in response to surrounding weather conditions. The first version of the installation has already been built and is located in North Wales. (more…)
 
To hear examples of installation output, go to Installation Music.

Real Time: Interpretations

The second phase is to take the real-time output of the installation and edit it to form shorter, more structured pieces, that reflect the weather at particular place and time. The plan is to release collections of pieces, each collection from a specific location, as audio CDs. (more…)
 
To hear extracts from the first CD, entitled Weathersongs Volume 1: Days in Wales (Sunday Dance Music SDRIC02) and due for release in March 2006, go to Days In Wales.
 
Non-real Time: Days in the Life

The next stage will utilise the data logger attached to the Weather Station to record changes in the weather over set time periods (say, single days) and sonify the information, and play back the resulting music in a shorter time (probably one day = six minutes). Collections of these "Days In the Life" will also be made into CDs. (more…)

Sponsor the Project

The Weathersongs Music Project is looking for support in the forms of location(s) and funding for installation(s), and of data from other Davis weather station users around the world for use in the non-real time element of the project. If you would be intersted in helping, please take a look at the sponsorship page.