{"id":86958,"date":"2025-02-14T03:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/ambient-music\/mining-michael-klubertanz-ambientblog\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T03:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:44:18","slug":"mining-michael-klubertanz-ambientblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=86958","title":{"rendered":"Mining * Michael Klubertanz \u2013 Ambientblog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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MINING \u2013 CHIMET<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

There are many ways to compose music \u2013 and in recent years, we\u2019ve been seeing compositions more and more frequently that are based on external streams of data. That\u2019s not as straightforward as it sounds: it takes a lot of extra work to transform a data stream into an interesting soundscape.<\/p>\n

Mining<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 named after a weather station a mile off the coast of Hayling Bay, West Sussex \u2013 is the auditory reflection of the storms Ophelia and Brian that battered the coast of England in October 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music on Chimet charts the progress of the two storms over the course of a week. It was created using 2,016 sampled data streams, collected every five minutes between 0030 on October 16th, 2017 and 0025 on the 23rd, translating seven days of information into 67 minutes and 12 seconds of detailed and evolving music.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby<\/em><\/strong> is the data scientist, inventor, and sailor behind this project. He assembled a team of programmers, musicians, and designers for this project. Sound designer PJ Davy<\/em><\/strong> developed the soundscapes based on the data, and then Matthew Bourne<\/em><\/strong> improvised the piano parts in response to those soundscapes and then added cello and Memorymoog parts.<\/p>\n

Without detailed explanation, it\u2019s not entirely clear how the data were precisely used, but nonetheless, the final result is more \u2018musical\u2019 than one would expect from such a statistical background.
It\u2019s a dynamic listening experience that \u2018seems to change depending on your state of mind, and resonates on a primal level which belies its data-led compositional approach. While the origins of Chimet lie in the numbers, the resultant record sits proudly in that artistic tradition\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n