Kōea o Tāwhirimātea: Weather Choir involves a collective of eight climate-challenged locations around Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa: Tonga, Niue, Samoa, Rarotonga and Whakatane, Haumoana, Taranaki, and Tāmaki Makaurau in Aotearoa. Local weather conditions are traced in each site via audio/video reports and recordings of an aeolian harp, an instrument played by the wind that functions as a quasi-art/weather-monitoring instrument. Kit-set harps were posted to these eight locations to be combined with local materials and installed on each stormy coastline.
The aeolian weather instrument array is considered as a metaphorical ‘body’, harmonically responding to the variabilities of wind and weather, consonant when calm, dissonant when wild.
The Weather Choir has operated as a continuous conceptual chorus and has been reassembled from an online platform and documentary footage. This is the first linear compilation of the harps into a sound-driven video. See the full documentary on CIRCUIT here.
