Re: microsound wind sculptures/wind harps

[Paul Sanders <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> microsound Digest 19 Oct 2002 21:49:38 -0000 Issue 669
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> wind sculptures/wind harps
> 	16202 by: j.frede
> 	16203 by: dkl37.juno.com
> 	16205 by: Michal Seta
> 	16216 by: nicola catalano
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Hi

I'm delurking, so first an introduction. I'm Paul Sanders, one of the 
founders of state51 here in the UK. These days I'm more of a 
businessman and supporter than a creator.

Back on topic, Nicola mentioned Max Eastley - we give him the use of 
a workshop in my factory in London. Somewhere around we have a 
wonderful video documenting a work on a beach, with the wind humming 
and buzzing through many aolian harps. It's both restful and 
disturbing at the same time.

In David Toop's 'Buried Dreams' I seem to remember an instrument 
called a bull roarer, some kind of pierced gourd swung around the 
head on a strap. A primal and somewhat eerie sound.

For a stolen noise experience I occasionally go to the top of 
Parliament Hill in Hampstead, North London, on a very windy day when 
the kites are flying. If you go down the hill a bit to the North the 
voices of the sightseers are muted, and you can hear the edges of the 
tired ripstop buzz an aolian symphony...

Cheerio

Paul

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