A big Leaf welcome to MINING – a collective of musicians, data scientists, programmers, photographers and designers.
Debut album Chimet charts the progress of two storms over the course of a week, utilising data from Chichester West Pole Beacon, a weather station in the Solent which stands in some of the most treacherous waters in the UK.
In October 2017, ex-Hurricane Ophelia and Storm Brian hit the British Isles. In attempting to place the listener within the weather, Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby and PJ Davy created the album using 2,016 sampled data streams, translating seven days of information into 67 minutes and 12 seconds of detailed and evolving music. With mother nature orchestrating the piece, she is joined by intuitive and powerful improvisations on piano, cello and synthesiser by our Matthew Bourne.
The recording captures the sense of building expectation and tension, the dropping air pressure, the rising winds, the interlocking storm systems and the serene aftermath. The shifts are seamless, monumental and open to the elements.
The first single released from the album is ‘Petrichor’. Accompanied by a generative video by artist Sock Redding, which takes the storm data as its basis.
Download Petrichor here.
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