MINING - Chimet

MINING is a collective of musicians, data scientists, programmers, photographers and designers, and Chimet is their first album. The album was created using weather data collected from Chichester West Pole Beacon (in the Solent) during a storm sequence in October 2017. Through a process of sonification, the data was used to create 67 minutes of extraordinary music that maps the course of the storms over a full week. Matthew Bourne then added piano and cello in one take, reacting to the ebb and flow of the piece. The final result is at once powerful, meditative, enveloping and challenging - a slow, magnificent rollercoaster of sound.