Variable 4

www.variable4.org.uk

Variable 4 is an 8-speaker outdoor sound installation which translates weather conditions into musical patterns in real time. Using meteorological sensors connected to a custom software environment, the weather itself acts as conductor, navigating through a map of 24 specifically-written movements.

Every aspect of the piece, from broad harmonic progressions down to individual notes and timbres, is influenced by changes in the environment: wind speed, rainfall, solar radiation, humidity, tropospheric variance, temperature, and more.

Locations

  • Dungeness, Kent (22 — 23 May 2010)
  • Snape Maltings, Suffolk (28 — 29 May 2011)
  • Elizabeth Castle, Jersey (22 — 25 September 2011)
  • Portland Bill, Dorset (5 — 14 September 2014)

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