Greetings,

Sunday Dance Music is pleased to announce the release of a new CD album
from Richard Garrett's Weathersongs Music project.

"Weathersongs Volume 1: Days in Wales" is an album of short pieces of
music created over the period of one year using an algorithmic
composition program driven by real-time changes in the weather as
recorded by an electronic weather station. (details below)

For more about the project, go to http://www.weathersongs.org/
or to http://www.sundaydance.co.uk/

best wishes

richard

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Richard Garrett <richard@sundaydance.co.uk>
Sunday Dance http://www.sundaydance.co.uk/
Weathersongs http://www.weathersongs.org/

======= WEATHERSONGS VOLUME 1: DAYS IN WALES ========

Weathersongs volume 1: Days in Wales is an album of 14 short pieces of
music derived, in real time, from the weather conditions in Southern
Snowdonia on 14 different days over one year. Each track was generated
by a computer program connected to an electronic weather station at
Richard's home in the foothills of Cadair Idris, North Wales. Data
output from the weather station (wind speed and direction, temperature,
pressure, humidity, rainfall) was used to compose music as conditions
changed,then selected results were recorded and edited for audio CD.

All the tracks on the album have common features: Temperature and
Humidity provide bass drones; Air Pressure gives higher pitched
accompaniment; while the Wind produces a lead voice whose pitch,
intensity and phrasing all change as the wind shifts direction, ebbs and
flows. Rain, when it rains, is heard as random percussive events
(typically bells) whose statistical density changes with the rate of
fall. When each track is edited, however, different timbres are applied
to the music accentuating the character of the individual pieces/ days.
Thus, the music ranges from the gentle ambient electronica of a cool
spring morning to wild, almost Free Jazz, saxophone as the westerly
gales of autumn hit Cardigan Bay.

Mp3 extracts from the album, as well as raw material from the
installation can be heard on http://www.weathersongs.org/

Weathersongs volume 1: Days in Wales will be released on March 28th 2006
and will be on sale online at http://www.sundaydance.co.uk/ and selected
record shops.


======= BIOGRAPHY: RICHARD GARRETT ===========

Richard Garrett was born in London, UK in 1957 and has been writing
music and playing guitar since he was sixteen.

Richard is interested in a wide variety of music. He has played in rock
and jazz bands; accompanied poets; and played in the pit for pantomime.
For several years, he studied singing, Indian Rag and Cosmic Theatre
with French composer/ performer Gilles Petit and has studied jazz with
some of the UK's premier musicians. Richard has also studied algorithmic
composition with David Cope at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Richard has recorded six albums to date. He has also worked with
computers as a programmer, teacher and journalist.

Since 1996, Richard has been working in the field of generative music.
His first album in this field, Robot Sculpture (Sunday Dance Music
2001), was produced by taking a number of computer pieces then
recording, editing and embellishing them with improvisation.

Some of the pieces used to create Robot Sculpture, along with works by
Brian Eno and others, formed part of "Dark Symphony", a mammoth five-day
outdoor exhibit at the Ars Electronica Festival 2003 in Linz, Austria.

Richard lives in an isolated Welsh farmhouse, halfway between the
mountains of Snowdonia and the sea, with his wife, Heather and son,
Sean. There, he writes music and distributes his albums through Sunday
Dance Music.