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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.
- Tessa Solomon
- Luigi Russolo, Gran Concerto Futuristico (1917) Luigi Russolo is may be best known as a painter associated with the Futurist movement in Italy, but he’s also considered one of the first experimental noise artists, if not the very first one altogether.
- Marcel Duchamp, Erratum Musical (1913) Marcel Duchamp was fascinated by the potential to visualize sound, and he was even once quoted as saying, “One can look at seeing; one can not hear hearing.”
- John Cage, 4’33” (1952) American composer John Cageand Marcel Duchamp were artistic collaborators, both fixated on redefining the boundaries of music. For his masterpiece, Cage mined the potential of silence, revolutionizing sound art and performance in the process.
- Bill Fontana, Distant Trains (1984) By the 1960s and early 1970s, advances in electronic media had expanded the potential for visual artists and composers working at the intersection of sound and sculpture.
Mar 26, 2016 · Sound Sculptor Harry Bertoia Created Musical, Meditative Art. March 26, 20165:35 AM ET. Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday. Joel Rose. 6-Minute Listen. Playlist. Important Records YouTube. The...
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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).
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New York-based sound artist and performer Thessia Machado builds large-scale instruments using circuits of electrical wire vines, speaker blooms and light-sensitive tendrils. Machado’s practice evolved organically from sculpture to sound, eventually aligning with the legacy of experimental music and hand-made instruments.
Art which uses sound both as its medium (what it is made out of) and as its subject (what it is about) Sound art dates back to the early inventions of futurist Luigi Russolo who, between 1913 and 1930, built noise machines that replicated the clatter of the industrial age and the boom of warfare.
