Chimet review: Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby is turning data from two dramatic storms into music

Chimet
Mining
The Leaf Label

Every time Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby speaks, he has to hold down a button on a device in his neck, which stops air coming out of a hole in his throat. He explains the opening-closing mechanism before he reinserts the white plastic disc. It is a heat and moisture exchanger, implanted to allow him to retain moisture in his lungs.

“I’ve had cancer three times in the last four-and-a-half years,” he says, his voice now generated by a tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis embedded in the back…