Joseph Zhang – Looking Outwards – 04

Quite contrary to its comical name, Weather Thingy is a custom built sound controller that modifies the sounds from musical instruments by utilizing data from real-time weather events.

This project was created by Adrien Kaeser, a current Media and Interaction Design student at ECAL in Switzerland. The device is able to amplify or minimize the data from any one of its four sensors and add that information into any musical composition to distort it. The device was made primarily with Arduino products and coded with Arduino, and MIDI protocol.

I find this project very fascinating because of its ability to take such qualitative data and make something so empathetic from it all. People often distinguish science and emotional art; Adrien was able to combine both.

Weather Thingy – Real time climate sound controller