Weather as Art

Portland-area artist Ethan Rose has created a permanent art installation that interprets the weather with music. “Elements” is located in the lobby of a new Microsoft building in Redmond, WA.

Using an Orion weather station to capture the data, the Weather MicroServer offers an XML data file over an Ethernet connection. Weather measurements interpreted by software trigger musical sounds that play through around one hundred speakers mounted into the lobby's ceiling.

“This representative gesture sonically engages the lobby space as a threshold between built and natural environments, inviting building users to experience a musical connection between inside and out.”

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