Working series about Weather and Predictions (2021-)
A Storm is Blowing from Paradise - [ Acting against God - the sound that explores the point atmospheric phenomena became deterministic occurrences ]
Imagining a sequence of weather narratives around the wind, Quantum Foam synthesises field recordings and deconstructs the audio into shuffle-able components open for a stochastic takeover.
A Storm is Blowing From Paradise boldly experiments with random modulation over the midi velocity of the drums to convey the degree of entropy of the chaotic atmosphere.
Track List
Jesper Målsten
The Wire Below The Radar
Rhythm of Chance (2021)
Will it be sunny? Will it be windy? What are the chances?...
Rhythm of Chance originates from the exercise to map the history of weather with the impact of Liverpool’s Royal Charter shipwreck in the Irish Sea on the advancement of weather forecasting - the critical turn when atmospheric phenomena perceived as uncertain acts of god became deterministic occurrences. A series of weather proverbs in Irish folklores of how to tell the weather is unveiled. These texts, suggesting an ambiguous sense of causality (or not), are visually presented in TVs in sets of random functions. The sound performance is accompanied with live projection of audio-reactive wind particles, which imagines a sequence of narratives around the wind, to deconstruct the audio into shuffle-able components open for a stochastic takeover.
Weather undetermined, nevertheless (permitted).
Image by Emma Smith
Work Title: Rhythm of Chance / A Storm is Blowing from Paradise (live)
Year of Production: 2021
Material/Medium: Sound performance with multichannel visuals and projection
Size of work: 22 minutes
Acknowledgement:
Animated visuals: Flor de Fuego
Album cover: Sui Lam / emfm.se
TV Monitors: Paul Sullivan / Static Gallery
Project Funding: Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Art Arcadia, and Liverpool Irish Festival
Semiotics of Weather
Research, Time-based Media and Workshops
In collaboration with Claudine Hubert(CA), Flor de Fuego(AR/DE) and Naoto Hieda(DE/JP)
What do we know about Predicting the Future? Is it chance? Is it deterministic?
Research on the semiotics of weather has lead to a collaborated project Meteoromancer, a shortened form of Meteorological Cartomancer, to create performative audiovisual online platform intersecting art, technology and weather science. It plays with the concept of alchemy by coding with weather-the ever changing atmospheric state. Archival texts and images from the MET Office and Science Museum Collection, and historic literature on meteorology were categorised and blended with open source video synthesiser (Hydra - live coding project developed by Olivia Jack). We use the storytelling method to engage the audience about the history of meteorology by categorising the knowledge into tarot deck/shuffling of cards. Echoing with the random but deterministic character of the weather, we are using 'chance' as an aesthetic language for our creative process, therefore cartomancy, an ancient form of oracle that employs chance.
MUTEK Forum, MUTEK Montréal, August 2021
Bidston Observatory in England, November 2021
SPAM ARTS x University of La Plata, December 2021