Claire Lee – Looking Outwards – 09

I decided to write about the project cited in Katrina Hu’s Looking Outwards-04, called the Weather Thingy. Created by Adrien Kaeser, the Weather Thingy is a real-time climate sound controller that essentially converts climactic data into instrument-friendly midi data. One aspect that I found particularly interesting was that the creator put a special focus on being able to listen to the real-time impact of the weather on a piece. I think this project captures a little piece of a moment in a very unique way, and I thought it was interesting how it was similar in concept (and presumably execution) to Pierry Jacquillard’s Prélude in ACGT, which I wrote about in one of my previous blog posts. It just goes to show that the modern conception of art is very different from the traditional paint-on-canvas ideas– the versatility of code even allows us to create art out of seemingly mundane data.