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25 May 09 - 12:39 PM (#2640517) Subject: sound installations From: Jack Campin I mentioned this in another thread, but's an example of something that deserves a thread of its own. An organ played by the random movement of the waves: The Zadar sea organ A lot of us will have windchimes. A friend of mine has made a couple of Aeolian harps - they were quite popular in Britain the 18th century. There are quite a few instrument/sculptures where the "player" is a force of nature, or something with no human intention behind it. The most extraordinary one I've heard of was set up in the beaches on Micronesia to guide the souls of the dead on their way to the next world. It was a collection of full-length bamboos, with a slot cut in each segment at a random point round the circumference. So as the wind changed in strength and direction, it would sound a continually varying clustered chord of flute sounds. I have some of it on an old Ocora LP (Musique de Guadalcanal), but obviously a recording can't convey much of the effect you'd feel standing in a forest of shrieking poles in a storm. What favourites do people here have? |
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25 May 09 - 12:47 PM (#2640525) Subject: RE: sound installations From: Will Fly That's an amazing sound - almost reminiscent of some of the recordings of whales at times. |
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25 May 09 - 03:02 PM (#2640634) Subject: RE: sound installations From: michaelr This one's close to where I live: http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/waveorg.htm Very nifty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKWcAPOHU0 |
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26 May 09 - 04:04 AM (#2641005) Subject: RE: sound installations From: GUEST,Sedayne (Astray) There's something up on the moors we keep meaning to go & see but somehow never manage to get round to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B0hGyKV9qs |
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26 May 09 - 06:24 AM (#2641058) Subject: RE: sound installations From: GUEST Thank You JACK!
The "odd music" site you linked to is fascinating - what FUN to browse through their pages...and the MP3 clip of ZADER is soothing.
Sincerely, |
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26 May 09 - 07:00 AM (#2641071) Subject: RE: sound installations From: GUEST,.gargoyle Los Angeles - Triforium
The Triforium is a six story 60 ton public sculptur a brightly colored, metal sculpture that once upon a time was hooked up for musical light shows...it was intended to be an artisitic display of the workings of the three parts of government. Today - it just sits and does nothing - so I guess it was successful.
It combined an electronic harmonium, a 79 note glass bell carillon with two octaves of English bells, and two octaves of Flemish bells. The bells transformed sound to color and regulated the intensity of the lights inside the prisms. The sculpture was not wired properly and broke down.
It was dedicated in 1975 by Burl Ives and Eddie Albert.
Amongst other names it has been called..."Three Wishbones in Search of a Turkery." http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/2529714295_526c1423ff.jpg?v=0
Sincerely, |
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26 May 09 - 08:16 AM (#2641099) Subject: RE: sound installations From: Jack Campin That sounds rather like the Millennium Clock in the National Museum of Scotland - look at the Sharmanka website for an idea (it's more or less unfilmable). |
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26 May 09 - 08:22 AM (#2641100) Subject: RE: sound installations From: GUEST,Lord O'May (it's more or less unfilmable) The devil's in the details! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKjuTHUiTk |
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26 May 09 - 08:29 AM (#2641104) Subject: RE: sound installations From: glueman More land sounds: http://www.hcmf.co.uk/page/show/41 |
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26 May 09 - 08:30 AM (#2641107) Subject: RE: sound installations From: glueman http://www.hcmf.co.uk/page/show/41 |
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26 May 09 - 10:19 AM (#2641151) Subject: RE: sound installations From: Jack Blandiver Reminds of the early warning Sound Mirrors: http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/mirrors/ |
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26 May 09 - 11:06 AM (#2641170) Subject: RE: sound installations From: open mike a music museum in germany has this: http://www.bernhardgal.com/airport.html |
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15 Apr 11 - 07:18 AM (#3135652) Subject: RE: sound installations From: Jack Campin Bach on an auto-xylophone |
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16 Apr 11 - 04:08 AM (#3136180) Subject: RE: sound installations From: s&r In Blackpool Stu |
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16 Apr 11 - 04:46 AM (#3136186) Subject: RE: sound installations From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Excellent, Stu. Funny how we've seen that sculpture for years (even having a postcard on the wall of the WC) without realising what it was until a few months ago. Shame it wasn't in G or D really... |