The coast is windy, says the news. At first it was a local story: record low barometric pressure, a "bomb cyclone" made up of hurricane force winds and rain. A couple hours later it led off the national news. Now it is an international story with reports of an "atmospheric river" so powerful that it has turned San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge from a work of transportation infrastructure into the world's largest wind chime.
How many MFA students will be out there today capturing its sounds for future projects -- from those eager to catalogue its tones (the minimalist) to those (expressionists) who need only a three-to-five second clip to abstract into something even further removed from its source?
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