weather the storm by Meghan Quinlan

Meghan Quinlan’s music piece “Weather the Storm” utilizes winter temperature extremes data from Gabriele Messori and Leonardo Olivetti. The dataset includes daily average temperatures in the Eastern USA from 1959 to 2022, highlighting the 100 coldest and 100 warmest five-day periods in winter. To show variation between typical and extreme weather, additional random days were included. This data is linked to research on extreme weather in the Euro-Atlantic region. The data forms the basis for Meghan’s composition, which articulates the forecasts to scale in time: every six seconds is a year, every minute a decade, making the increase in extreme weather events from 1959 to 2022 audible.

The piece was composed specially for the inauguration of climes – Swedish center for impacts of weather extremes, April 2024.

Composition, electronics, and production: Meghan Quinlan
Singers: Meghan Quinlan, Magdalena Dahlborg, Erik Bergwall
Visual editing: Sakıp Murat Yalçın

Royalty free visual content by: hu_lexxi, tahasultan, caelan, ceos_stock, nickype 

Video created using open-source software Kdenlive. https://kdenlive.org/en/

Meghan Quinlan’s artist account on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mogmakes/

For more info the scientific data on which the music piece is based on see Messori et al. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003753.

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