[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":50},["ShallowReactive",2],{"projectweather-made-2001":3},{"slug":4,"title":5,"year":6,"content":7,"image":8,"categories":10,"featured":38,"audio":39,"video":40,"media":41},"weather-made-2001","weather made ",2001,"\u003Cp class=\"has-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002FSandaIslandW.jpg\" data-project-media-index=\"0\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>\u003Cstrong>Why hang out on an uninhabited Scottish island with kite flyers, digital artists and writers for a week ?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The point of being a composer in the Syzygy project for a week of watching and living in skies and sea and Scottish space, was to get involved with the weather to make music. Not simply listen and roam the island’s details to record lush arrays of sonorities to then process through methods I currently exploited. No, not the point at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here on Sanda island was an opportunity to access data reflecting the amount and type of light present, temperature, wind speed, and position of the mother kite as it hovered 100m above our heads. Live data mirroring the weather.  A system that we had hooked which I attempted to use to replace my own ideas and gestures when composing. In other words, I co-designed a software instrument built by project Max coder Jonny Bradley, for the weather to play and recorded the results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially I set up radio microphones to sample sounds on the kites as they flew, the kite flyers, the computers in the field station with the most interesting results sounding from the kite strings as they vibrated taut holding the kites to earth. Our system meant that these sounds were sampled either when the data being read from the kite flyers brain went beyond a certain point, or from a clock or using a random timing. At the same time, these sounds were processed through my regular LiSa software, by pitching, filtering, layering, crunching, breaking up and looping; the amount of and timing being determined by the constantly incoming weather data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002FSandaKites2.jpg\" data-project-media-index=\"1\">\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the days, different systems were developed and tried with a huge variety of results, the controlling factors constantly changing themselves of course.  .  But one of the systems that produced some beautiful music involved taking 30 second samples from the kite string every 35 seconds, the temperature determining the start point of a loop, the wind its length, the position of the kite the sound to move between right and left speaker, and the amount of full spectrum to filter the result through a soft comb filter. Inbetween these sampling points, another 20 second sample was being taken whose loop points were determined by the same factors, but whose filtering was controlled by the amount of uv light. The result was that when the sun burst from behind a cloud, a note would pop out from a resonant filter, its pitch determined by the amount of visible light present. That was a calm day, the music was long and still, non linear, marked by occasional bursts of light . Other grey gusty windy days, – using light on filters, wind on duration and temperature on volume , made fast changing glitchy rhythmic stuff, noisy and intense. Use light on sampling and duration and wind on filters on such days and the results are slow and calm with pops of silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems that the weather is full of patterns which never repeat or can be predicted. Some kind of ideal collaborator maybe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The SYZYGY project was the idea of and was directed by\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Flondonfieldworks.com\u002FProject-1-Syzygy\"> Jo Joelson and Bruce Gilchrist of London Fieldworks\u003C\u002Fa> July 1999\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>weather made was the resultant music by Matthews released as  CDR on\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.annetteworks.com\"> annetteworks\u003C\u002Fa> dec 2001\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Music: Kaffe Matthews and the weather on Sanda island, July 1999.\u003Cbr>\nText: Steve Beard\u002FIsland spirit generator and William Shakespeare.\u003Cbr>\nVoices: Matthew Bowyer and Tam Dean Burn .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recorded on Sanda Island, then mixed and mastered with voices at Annette Works, London.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n",{"url":9},"\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002FSandaIslandW.jpg",[11,15,19,23,26,30,34],{"slug":12,"name":12,"ID":13,"count":14},"album",25,14,{"slug":16,"name":16,"ID":17,"count":18},"collaboration",17,261,{"slug":20,"name":20,"ID":21,"count":22},"compositions",7,360,{"slug":24,"name":24,"ID":14,"count":25},"environmental",170,{"slug":27,"name":27,"ID":28,"count":29},"installation",11,262,{"slug":31,"name":31,"ID":32,"count":33},"interactive",26,223,{"slug":35,"name":35,"ID":36,"count":37},"sonification",20,37,false,[],[],[42,46],{"type":43,"src":9,"original":44,"large":45},"image",{"url":9},{"url":9},{"type":43,"src":47,"original":48,"large":49},"\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002FSandaKites2.jpg",{"url":47},{"url":47},1794140199263]