1/15 Weather Modification and YOU!
A Nation of Joiners, Weather Modification and YOU!
The Los Angeles Department of Weather Modification, Northern Bureau
at Southern Exposure in San Francisco
January 29 – February 14, 2015
Sound artist Chris Kallmyer and the Los Angeles Department of Weather Modification establish an office space and Northern Bureau headquarters at Southern Exposure. With five live programs and a gallery installation, the LADWM continue their sonic explorations into our experience of weather and cultural history of weather modification practices. Kallmyer and other musicians from the LADWM use immersive sound, ritual and radical environmental experiments to end the California drought and create weather.
LADWMNB ENDS THE DROUGHT
Thursday, January 28, 2014, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
The drought comes to an end as we dance it out and perform long-trusted drought-ending rituals, such as an ancient Roman stone dragging ceremony, the tossing of water from a high place by a village elder, and a gathering of twins.
FOG MEDITATION
Saturday, January 31, 2014, 2:00—4:00 pm
Join Kallmyer and his guests for an afternoon performance of fog-inspired music, with distant horns, slow moving sounds, and white-out-conditions taking us back to a pre-global warming San Francisco summer.
RAIN RAGAS
Thursday, February 5, 2014, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
In North India, music regularly ushers in the monsoon season. Join the LADWM for a concert of traditional and experimental ragas on sarode and tabla. Sarode player and son of Ali Akbar Khan, encourages precipitation with these rain-inspiring ragas.
AMERICAN RAINMAKER: A WEATHER OPERA
Thursday, February 12, 2014, 7:30—9:00 pm
A weather expert visits to talk about weather modification in the west, and the LADWM weather consultants tell the tale of Charles Hatfield, an early experimental rainmaker.
LOVE, THUNDER
Saturday, February 14, 2014, 2:00-4:00 pm
The LADWM’s annual Valentines Day celebration articulates a love letter from precipitation to the people of San Francisco. Thunder needs you, and is wants you back. Bring an umbrella and a friend.