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weatherworld quartets has been performed in Durham…

This cycle of six quartets, each around ten minutes long, explores our sensory and bodily experience of the outdoors — the ‘weatherworld’. Their sonic landscape is pervaded by rain and wind, sounding out the surfaces and bodies of the instruments in a delicately mesmeric weave of harmonics, open strings and unpitched noise; sustained, glanced, brushed, tapped. In two quartets the bow is replaced by plant materials — fern fronds and cypress sprigs — heightening the exploration of an intimate, immersed way of being in the natural world that speaks urgently to our need for ecological reconnection.

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Premiere

  • November 25, 2025, Musicon 2025: James Weeks: weatherworld quartets, Department of Music — Palace Green, Durham University, Durham (England, UK)

weatherworld quartets

  • Composer(s): James Weeks
  • Year of composition: 2022-25
  • Duration: 60:00
Works in this cycle
Concerts
25 Nove 2025
7:30 pm
Weeks
In person
Durham (England, UK)