"I used only the original recording source and did not add anything to it. I felt challenged to create a piece from this limited material, using various effects to create all the sounds. But mostly I chopped up the recording and pulled out a few bits that I found particularly interesting.
This is a (rather repetitive) weather broadcast and it seems the weather was fair that day, except for some moderate rain showers and thunderstorms. As there were only very few of those, they caught my ear above the rest. The other constant in the recording were the repetitive numbers, reminding me of old spy number stations, so I decided to use the numbers as my base and provide some of the rhythm of the piece.
The piece is broadly structured in three sections to explore different aspects of the recording while always returning to a central theme - weather, repetiton and numbers."
Composition by Florian Staab.
Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds o
