Unusual Weather Phenomena Project
The world is strange. It is a weird combination of things, and yet, it works. No one knows this better than the US-American physicist William R. Corliss. In his «Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena» from 1974 he catalogues scientifically vouched but rarely observed weather wonders, among which the backwards falling rain, the quadruple sunset or the seasons passing in reverse order. In his preface he notes that the world is better understood when studying its oddities. He finds it astonishing that no one before him ever thought of putting together an extensive library of the oddities of all scientific disciplines.
Based on Corliss’ descriptions and their musical reconstructions the Swiss project artist Thom Luz created his latest production. The four exception-musicians Mathias Weibel, Michael Flury, Evelinn Trouble and Mara Miribung morphe into weather men and women and install a weather symphony for trombone, trumpet-violin, tape and light machine that takes on a life of its own on stage. A marvelling approach of the wonders of reality and a bow to everything we do not understand.
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