Sound Artist Quintron’s Weather Warlock is one in a series of custom-built weather-controlled analog synthesizers. Outdoor sensors detect changes in sunlight, wind, precipitation, and temperature, with output becoming particularly dynamic during periods of rapid meteorological change, such as sunrise and sunset. At The End of the World, Weather Warlock serves as a stand-alone installation and generative composition, an online stream, as well as an interactive instrument available to visiting artists and radio programmers.

According to Quintron, “Weather Warlock is an environmentally responsive analog synthesizer which uses moisture, temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed and UV radiation to massage a major chordal drone. The resulting music was designed for self-hypnosis and healing. I wanted something with movement and changes, but completely devoid of human organization - like a fire, or a lake reflecting moonlight. Constantly vibrating with change but also very still."

Following the program, New Orleans Airlift will host a post-performance breakfast at the Music Box Village from 7am-8:30am.

Quintron has been inventing electronic gadgets and creating genre-defying noise, soundscape, and house rocking dance music in New Orleans for over 20 years, much of it in collaboration with artist / puppeteer Panacea Theriac aka "Miss Pussycat". He is a Grammy-nominated song writer with dozens of full-length albums, as well as a frequent collaborator with a wide swath of the American musical landscape, including The Oblivians, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Andre Williams, and New Orleans RnB legend Ernie K-Doe.

In 1999, Quintron helped to foster a DIY analog synth revival with a patented instrument called the DRUM BUDDY, a light activated analog drum machine which creates murky, low-fidelity, rhythmic patterns. These experiments eventually led to Quintron's focus on a weather-controlled drone synthesizer called Weather Warlock and a website devoted to streaming its music called Weather For The Blind.

During the Covid pandemic, Quintron has shifted focus to a couple of smaller inventions, including a simple, water-conservation device called the “Bath Buddy” (www.bathbuddy.space).

Quintron has had speaking roles in several film and TV projects, including David Simon’s “Treme”, Michael Almaredo’s “Happy Here and Now” (with David Arquette), “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” (with Kirsten Dunst), and “Spinal Tap II–Goodbye Cleveland”.

Quintron continues to live and work in New Orleans Louisiana as well as touring, teaching, and lecturing in this world and beyond.

For more information visit:

www.quintronandmisspussycat.com
www.weatherfortheblind.org
www.bathbuddy.space