A sonic interpretation of a storm, its power, and its one weakness…

A STORM HAS A FINITE LIFE – IT BLOWS ITSELF OUT AND DISAPPEARS FOREVER

…experienced from within the mind and soul of the storm itself.

October 2023 – musician and composer Tyler Lewis and writer / director Neil Cargill were working with a group of teenagers in the countryside in North East Scotland as part of a Youth Music Initiative, a scheme which offers opportunities for young people to experience sound recording and music composition for the first time. While they were indoors discussing what to create, outside the wind and the rain began to grow increasingly wild…

Finding themselves deep in the heart of the hugely destructive Storm Babet, the young workshop participants harnessed the sounds of the storm and used them as inspiration for a recording that was shaped in real time by the rapidly changing sounds of the natural world. With original music, sung and spoken words and tones created with everything from snapped tree branches to straining metal structures, they created a vivid work that sheds light on Babet from an unexpected perspective. We know the experience of being surrounded by a storm, but what is it like being the storm itself – being misunderstood, feared, vulnerable, frightened by your own strength, facing your own swiftly approaching end?