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Weather Station' is a site specific sound installation for the London Underground.The functioning principle of the sound sculpture is based on the interaction between wind and the installment. The 'Weather Station' requires no external source of power, the only source of power is the wind which is triggering the sounds.

The wind occurrence in some of the tube stations and the qualities of it that we have observed promised an opportunity for a piece of art that would be unique and related to the conditions of the Underground environment only. The various sound sculptures previously created by other artists explored the opportunities of random wind, whereas here the wind is 'limited' to being scheduled and bidirectional.

The 'Weather Station' is the name of the project and suggests a humorous comparison of natural and manmade forces and a need for forecasting.
The forecasting comes as an unexpected sound message produced through the process of the wind flow passing the channels of the sound sculpture. Changes in the level and the harmony of the sound informs about the approaching train.

The aim of a real weather observation station is to record the meteorological data and atmospheric changes. Here the aim is to sonify the wind related data and its changes and turn it into music.

Installed on the 16th of May, 2009 at the Tooting Bec underground station, London Lina Lapelyte & Mantas Sauja  2009

Ujino Muneteru

Ujino Muneteru turns mechanical sounds into complex rhythms. For Art Forum 2010, Ujino Muneteru has reconstructed his sound sculpture Plywood City, which he first created in 2008 for his solo exhibition Crossband at PSM, Berlin.

On the opening day of Art Forum Berlin, VernissageTV met with Sabine Schmidt (Director, PSM Berlin) who provides us with an introduction to the work of Ujino Muneteru.

"Bored by the technical limits of conventional instruments, Ujino, a guitarist and bassist himself, experiments with new sounds. Different resonant bodies widen the spectrum of timbre; the sound of simple mechanical motors is used to produce new tones. In particular domestic appliances, tools, and large machinery from the fifties to the seventies are employed for their mechanical simplicity and physicality. Japanese Noise Music, a sound movement from the eighties, influenced by John Cage and the Fluxus movement, is referenced in Ujino's productions.

The title of the sound sculpture now presented at the Art Forum Berlin refers to a part of Tokyo, which is built form wood and is colloquially known as Plywood City. Ujino has constructed a wooden model ciy, which is animated by kinetic objects and sound. The basis of Plywood City is formed with art transport crates.

Ujino Muneteru 宇治野宗輝 (born in 1964) lives and works in Tokyo. He earned his B.A. in craft from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1988. He has exhibited internationally in institutions such as the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; House of World Cultures, Berlin; ZKM, Karlsruhe; 15th Biennale of Sydney; Barbican Gallery, London; and many others. Ujino Muneteru's solo exhibitions include Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo (2011); Ujino and the Rotators, Hayward Project Space, London (2009); and Crossband, PSM, Berlin (2008).

Ujino Muneteru: Plywood City / PSM Berlin / Art Forum Berlin. Interview with PSM Director Sabine Schmidt, October 6, 2010.