Katrina Hu – Looking Outwards – 04

Weather Thingy

Weather Thingy is a sounds controller that uses real time climate-related events to control and modify the settings of musical instruments. The device consists of a weather station on a tripod microphone and a custom built controller connected to the weather station. The station has 3 climate sensors including a rain gauge, a wind vane and an anemometer. There is a controller that transforms climatic data into midi data, and can therefore be interpreted by instruments. The purpose of this project was to allow users to listen to the impact of climate on composition.

I admire that it allows users to take the data and use it to turn it into their own creative compositions. This is possible because you can use the device to pre-record the climate data of a certain place at a certain time. The musician can capture moments that he has found inspiring to create new melodies on his own.