Something about the Weather
Campus Arts Event
Something about the Weather
A new and original work by New York-based composer, producer, and performer Hahn Rowe. Registration will open in January 2023.
FREE
Lenfest Center for the Arts
February 01, 2023 | 7:00 pm
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About the Comission

Something about the Weather is the latest in a series of commissions by Columbia University School of the Arts, including WATERLICHT NYC by Daan Roosegaarde (2019); Release the Horses (fka hydra) by Phoebe Osborne (2021); Mundoagua by Arturo O’Farrill (2021); and The Art of Listening: Under Water by Jana Winderen with Tony Myatt (2022).

About the Artist

Composer, producer, and performer Hahn Rowe has developed a uniquely personal sonic language, traversing a vast array of musical terrains and weaving them into ever-shifting, polymorphic soundscapes. At home in the studio as well as in the performance arena, he has worked to break down the barriers between traditional musical performance, sound art, and physical theater.

Location

Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY

About The Performance

Something about the Weather is a new and original world premiere by New York-based composer, producer, and performer Hahn Rowe. It was commissioned by Columbia University School of the Arts as part of the 2022–23 season of public programming and engagement organized around the theme “To Transform.” 

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 will use digital processing alongside traditional instruments and crude, everyday objects to build a fluid, shapeshifting soundscape for the Lantern — the flexible, top-floor space of the Lenfest Center for the Arts.    

“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.” 

For more information about this performance, please visit the event website.

Image: Artist Hahn Rowe / photo by Jorge Leon