Weatherscapes Atlas

This essay, conceived for Kommunal Praksis’ Almanac, offers a mixed-media reflection on the practice of listening as a mode of ecological attunement—an embodied inquiry into the micro-turbulences, ebbs, and flows that shape our shared existence as weather beings. Framed through the concept of Cloud Swimming, the work investigates listening as both instrument and echo chamber within a Weatherscape: a dynamic field where sound mediates the invisible interrelations between human and more-than-human bodies. Sound is approached here as a revelatory medium—one that discloses the spatial and molecular interdependencies that structure life within the atmospheric continuum. The practice of Weatherscaping thus emerges as a sonic and research-based methodology for exploring common attunement across species and scales. Drawing analogies from chaos theory, the project considers how minimal gestures—a breath, a murmur, a butterfly’s wing-flap—resonate into larger ecologies of turbulence and transformation. Through field recordings of “lost landscapes,” listeners become co-composers of new, transient ecologies: assemblages of ghosts, echoes, and traces of vanished ecosystems, where respiration itself becomes composition. Ultimately, the essay argues that to listen is to participate in a constant sonic symphony of mutual becoming—a process of eco-ontological entanglement that reconfigures human identity within complex adaptive systems. By shifting from being in the weather to being weather, the practice articulates an ethical and aesthetic reorientation from ego-centric to eco-systemic consciousness.