LO- Sound and Computation

A project or work that I find inspirational is Weather Thingy by Adrien Kaeser. This work is a device that consists of two main parts, a weather station which lays on a tripod and a controller connected to the weather station. I admire this project because it is very interesting, the weather and the type of weather that is occurring outside controls the settings of the musical instruments connected to it. Kaeser is a media and interaction design student that wanted to combine art, music, and real time live weather creating the Weather Thingy. The controller transforms the weather data into midi data which is interpretable by instruments. This device can also be used in all weather conditions, as the user can constrain the values received to the device, the MIDI channel can also be changed to modify the way the effects are assigned. This device is very cool and interesting to me, it combines music and weather and lets people hear how the weather conditions are LIVE.