Quintron
Station Ohr-O’Keefe: Weather Warlock
John and James L. Knight Pavilion Pod 4
Quintron is a New Orleans inventor, artist, and musician. Using information from weather and traffic sensors, Quintron’s Weather Warlock provides listeners with an ever-changing, one of a kind listening experience. Built specifically for the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, the analog synth instrument is currently on display in the museum’s pavilion pod 4.
Quintron has been making genre-defying noise and hard rocking dance music in New Orleans for fifteen years. He has released strange soundscapes based on inner-city field recordings of frogs and neighborhood ambiance as well as holding himself up in The New Orleans Museum of Art for three months to create the epic “Sucre Du Sauvage.” In addition to his own recordings, Quintron has played organ on a number of other records, most notably The Oblivions’ 9 Songs and Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys’ Grand Isle, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012 and featured the Quintron penned song “Chatterbox.” In 2014, Quintron completed his first Weather Warlock while serving as artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.