Something about the Weather — an original work by New York-based composer, producer, and performer Hahn Rowe — was commissioned by Columbia University School of the Arts and produced by Gavin Browning as part of the 2022–23 season of public programming and engagement organized around the theme “To Transform.” It took place on January 30 and February 1, 2023, in the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Rowe describes Something about the Weather as “an inquiry into what we do when we are left to make something from nothing. While old structures are stubbornly refusing to die, many have lost the ability to dream of another reality. Music and sound can ignite our ability to ride along the edges of our imagination, where transformation is possible.”
In this concert, Rowe used digital processing alongside traditional instruments and crude, everyday objects to build a fluid, shapeshifting soundscape.
“An expedition in the wilderness? A cooking show gone awry? A negotiation of inclement conditions?,” Rowe asks. Something about the Weather is "a ritual romp through a playground of all things sonorous.”
Lighting design by Kate McGee.