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Feb 8, 2016 · These eight large scale sculptures are installed at various locations around the world, and interact with natural forces like the wind and the rain to create soothing music. Let’s hear them. Singing Ringing Tree, Burnley
- Stacy Conradt
- THE SINGING RINGING TREE // BURNLEY, ENGLAND. Looming above Burnley, the Singing Ringing Tree is made of galvanized steel pipes. As the wind blows through the pipes, the nearly 10-foot-tall sculpture creates eerie sounds in several octaves.
- THE WAVE ORGAN // SAN FRANCISCO. Like the Singing Ringing Tree, San Francisco’s Wave Organ also uses nature and pipes to make beautiful music. But in this case, the element used is water, not wind.
- BLACKPOOL HIGH TIDE ORGAN // BLACKPOOL, ENGLAND. Can’t make it to San Francisco? Then try for Blackpool, England. That’s where you’ll find the Blackpool High Tide Organ, a “musical manifestation of the sea” made of concrete, steel, zinc and copper that was created in 2002.
- A SOUND GARDEN // SEATTLE. First things first: Yes, the band Soundgarden is named after this sculpture. Created by sculptor Douglas Hollis in 1983, Seattle’s “A Sound Garden” consists of twelve 20-foot steel towers with wind vanes and organ pipes attached to them.
Cymatics and kinetic art have influenced sound sculpture. Sound sculpture is sometimes site-specific. Bill Fontana's research on urban sound sculpture delves into the concept of shifting ambient noise music within cityscapes to produce distinct auditory encounters. Through this approach, he modifies the surrounding soundscape, impacting how ...
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FOR BEST RESULTS LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES!!Sound Sculptures are intermedia and time-based art forms created to produce sounds; whether naturally, through the a...
The term sound art began to be used loosely in the avant-garde scene in the 1970s to describe sound-based projects that weren’t traditional music. Still, there are many overlaps with contemporary classical composition, experimental music and improvisation.
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Mar 26, 2016 · Designer and sculptor Harry Bertoia spent the final decades of his life creating mesmerizing "sonambient" music out of big metal objects. An 11-CD collection of his recordings has just been ...
