Re: [microsound] wind sculptures/wind harps

["toy.bizarre" <toy.bizarre@xxxxxxxx>]

http://www.ingeos.org/projects/index.php3?rub=026
a wind harp I used around 1996

Cedric Peyronnet
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Flannery" <newgrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: [microsound] wind sculptures/wind harps


> j.frede wrote to microsound:
> 
> jf> wind harps, has anyone on the list know about these? or has anyone
> jf> ever seen/heard one in person? sounds pretty amazing
> 
> There was a 2xLP released around 71 or 72, simply entitled _The Wind
> Harp_ (no artist credit), which documented a huge wind harp someone
> (again, unnamed) built on a hillside somewhere (unspecified) in New
> England ... the "theory of obscurity" approach was a little irritating
> (and now redundant, the harp was built by Ward McCain whose website has
> a page on it here: http://www.wardmccainartist.com/harp.html) but the
> recordings -- all untreated, simply using a very directional (and
> heavily shielded) microphone, often placed inside the resonator -- are
> amazing, thick multilayered textures that you could easily mistake for
> then-contemporary electronic music.
> 
> Gordon Monahan did a piece in the mid-80s called _Long Aeolian Piano_
> which is partially documented on one of his albums (either _Piano
> Mechanics_ or _Speaker Swinging_, not sure which).
> 
> -- 
> Jim Flannery                            newgrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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> np: Six Organs of Admittance, _You Can Always See the Sun_
> nr: Mervyn Peake, _Titus Groan_
> 
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