April 27, 2007

The Sea Organ - a coastal installation at Zadar, Croatia, designed by architect Nikola Bašić. It plays strangely beautiful music with the aid of the Mediterranean Ocean, wind, some polyethylene tubes and a resonating chamber. Sample.
posted by fish tick 17 years ago
  • What a lovely idea. And what a lovely place to hear it, if my dim memories of visiting when it was still Yugoslavia are right.
  • Letting the elements produce their own music by building them an instrument so that they may sound different from the way we usually hear them is such a poetic idea. Great link.
  • Really cool site. I find the nano guitar fascinating!
  • Er, back to the sea organ: here's a YouTube link. Not a soothing day at the beach.
  • I didn't like the idea of plastic tubes, but the way it looks is very subdued and almost elegant, and the sound is lovely.
  • that's stunning.
  • a huh huh.. "sea ... organ"... huh huh huh.. you wanna "sea" my "organ"? a huh huh huh huh...
  • Very interesting fishy - thanks! Also interesting but I'm much more conflicted about: The stalactpipe organ
  • Wow. I say, wow. And yet again, wow. Si elles s'en souviennent, les vagues vous diront: Combien pour la Fanette j'ai chanté de chansons,
  • This is great - thanks fish tick! It reminds me of a building described in Jack Vance's book 'The Anome' which is a giant musical instrument, using the wind to create notes through the body of the building, and also to blow chimes around.
  • Anyone recall the album saxophonist Jan Garbarek recorded with a windharp? It was set on top of a Norwegian mountain. It's a haunting song and the record is a fascinating document of artistic collaboration with Nature. The album was Dis and you can hear some samples here.
  • I meant haunting sound
  • We used to spend a week every summer at my Grandma's cottage on the lake. The porch was built with metal pipes, and every night the wind would whistle through them. It was always scary the first night, and exquisite by the seventh.