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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
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...
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- 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.
Aug 14, 2023 · Sound Sculptures are intermedia and time-based art forms created to produce sounds; whether naturally, through the action of wind, waves or gravity, for example, or as art structures that can...
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Sound Sculpture. Sound sculpture music is exactly that: the music of a sculpture producing sound. Although the expression is used at times to refer to the act of sculpting raw sound through electroacoustical processes (as in musique concrète), here "sound sculpture" designates music obtained by playing a resonating physical structure. Sound ...
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Sound sculpture. Sound sculpture is an intermedia and time-based art form in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces sound, or the reverse (in the sense that sound is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass).
