The Weather Duo can be contacted at weatherduomusic@gmail.com
We are available for concerts, live installation projects, multimedia collaborations, scoring for film, stage, or dance... if you can think of anything else for us to do, pitch it!
We are available for concerts, live installation projects, multimedia collaborations, scoring for film, stage, or dance... if you can think of anything else for us to do, pitch it!
Audio:
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decaDodeca from the album From Field to Platter
Falling Asleep to the Feedback from the album From Field to Platter |
Interviews:
The Weather Duo was featured in an article by the Isthmus' Rich Albertoni:
"We both kind of geek out over string music," says Reinholz. "We actually have conversations about things like subharmonizing." The group's sound brings together influences of jazz, classical, electronic and folk music. Musical improvisation isn't the only thing that's spontaneous about their performances. The video components added by Anna Weisling are also improvised, based on the way the music sounds as it unfolds. "I've got a bank of hundreds of videos that I can pull from," says Weisling. "I'll have to be ready to go someplace I've never heard them go before, so I use a program called MAX/MSP/Jitter that allows me to combine any kind of footage that I have with live footage of them."
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Willis says he enjoys the group's musical dexterity. "Our improvisational approach to string music allows us to perform with all sorts of different genres," he says. "We've played with rock bands. We've done shows with hip-hop artists. We've done jazz shows."
It's a great way to meet other musicians, Willis says. "Our sound works within a lot of different contexts. We haven't found something that hasn't worked yet."
Full article here.
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Willis says he enjoys the group's musical dexterity. "Our improvisational approach to string music allows us to perform with all sorts of different genres," he says. "We've played with rock bands. We've done shows with hip-hop artists. We've done jazz shows."
It's a great way to meet other musicians, Willis says. "Our sound works within a lot of different contexts. We haven't found something that hasn't worked yet."
Full article here.
The Weather Duo was interviewed on the WSUM Madison radio show Street Pulse:
Press Blurbs:
"I was blown away . . . I can’t even begin to discuss the skill level these guys demonstrated with their instruments– but I can say that usually, when I go to an 'experimental/indie' show, I usually don’t expect to leave feeling like I was watching from a high-price seat in a symphony hall."
-Amanda Kievet, Urban Agrarian (urbagrarian.com)
"Ben Willis and Patrick Reinholz's composition for “Almost” was evocative and lovely. It made me wish The Weather Duo were there in person."
-Lindsay Christians, The Capital Times, in review of Cycropia's production of "The Rite of Swing"
“Their compositions weaved and knotted like a web, at times so tight the crowd held its breath. Anna Weisling, the band’s self-described video sorceress, projected a video piece that often mesmerized and occasionally disturbed.”
-Laurie Stark, The Isthmus
"This cast inhabited her steps with aplomb and made the challenging floor work and shifts in weight look smooth as set to the engrossing live music composed and performed by the Weather Duo, Patrick Reinholz and Ben Willis."-Katie Reiser, The Isthmus, in review of the UW Dance Department's production of Upswing, in which Pat and Ben performed an original composition for Li Chiao-Ping's piece "ETA Movements No. 2"
“They each hang their creativity in a balance between them, and let gravity decide which way the pendulum falls. . . . The Weather Duo is not just painting a picture of geographical beauty; they’re creating an experience.”
-Kyle Sparks, Daily Cardinal
"As The Weather Duo, upright-bassist Ben Willis and cellist Pat Reinholz attempt to put a cosmic tear in chamber music, letting the outside influences of jazz and electronic music come into play."
-The A.V. Club Madison
"The duo . . . owes their novelty to the fact that they do not fit into any specific genre of music. They improvise, but without operating in the restricted vocabulary of jazz. They play traditional 'classical' instruments, but without obvious hints of Mozart or Beethoven. Although both are classically trained . . . to call them a chamber group or an art ensemble would only limit their creative canvas."
-Rose Gear, Emmie Magazine
-Amanda Kievet, Urban Agrarian (urbagrarian.com)
"Ben Willis and Patrick Reinholz's composition for “Almost” was evocative and lovely. It made me wish The Weather Duo were there in person."
-Lindsay Christians, The Capital Times, in review of Cycropia's production of "The Rite of Swing"
“Their compositions weaved and knotted like a web, at times so tight the crowd held its breath. Anna Weisling, the band’s self-described video sorceress, projected a video piece that often mesmerized and occasionally disturbed.”
-Laurie Stark, The Isthmus
"This cast inhabited her steps with aplomb and made the challenging floor work and shifts in weight look smooth as set to the engrossing live music composed and performed by the Weather Duo, Patrick Reinholz and Ben Willis."-Katie Reiser, The Isthmus, in review of the UW Dance Department's production of Upswing, in which Pat and Ben performed an original composition for Li Chiao-Ping's piece "ETA Movements No. 2"
“They each hang their creativity in a balance between them, and let gravity decide which way the pendulum falls. . . . The Weather Duo is not just painting a picture of geographical beauty; they’re creating an experience.”
-Kyle Sparks, Daily Cardinal
"As The Weather Duo, upright-bassist Ben Willis and cellist Pat Reinholz attempt to put a cosmic tear in chamber music, letting the outside influences of jazz and electronic music come into play."
-The A.V. Club Madison
"The duo . . . owes their novelty to the fact that they do not fit into any specific genre of music. They improvise, but without operating in the restricted vocabulary of jazz. They play traditional 'classical' instruments, but without obvious hints of Mozart or Beethoven. Although both are classically trained . . . to call them a chamber group or an art ensemble would only limit their creative canvas."
-Rose Gear, Emmie Magazine
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