"Recently, I have begun translating weather data collected in cities into musical scores, which are then translated into sculptures as well as being a source for collaboration with musicians. These pieces are not only devices that map meteorological conditions of a specific time and place, but are also functional musical scores to be played by musicians. While musicians have freedom to interpret, they are asked not to change the essential relationship of the notes to ensure that what is still heard is indeed the meteorological relationship of weather data."
External Weather, Internal Storms
33”x40"x60"Reed, metal, wood, data
2009
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Elaine Rombola, piano
Musical Buoy in Search Towards a New Shore
(Dedicated to Melvin Maddocks)
32”x32”x32”
Wood, data, reed
2009
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Elaine Rombola, piano
Urban Weather Prairies - Symphonic Studies in D
Reed, wood, data, 16’x15’x15’, 2009
Reed, wood, data, 16’x15’x15’, 2009
Urban Weather Prairies is based on data collected in Omaha, Nebraska, during a 2-month period (May /June 2008), while I was an Artist in Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. I chose to translate the data I collected in the format of an orchestra as a way to more truthfully articulate the somewhat idiosyncratic way I was making sense of my daily weather observations. Just like each instrument in a symphony plays part of the score, each sculpture and wall piece tells part of the story, with the entirety of the piece coming together through the larger behavioral patterns that slowly emerge over time. The wall space uses the rectangle as varies maps of Nebraska or urban centers of Nebraska.
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