British artist and inventor Luke Jerram never ceases to amaze with his sculptures, art installations, and inventions. His latest project is a sound generating Acoustic Wind Pavilion - the Aeolus, which will resonate and sing with the winds.
Inspired by the Iranian wind towers of Yadz, the long tensioned strings inside the Aeolus will resonate with the wind and will be heard by visitors inside the space.
“The ambition is to sonify the three dimensional landscape of wind, using a web of Aeolian harps, almost like cats' whiskers picking up the shifting landscape around the building,” explains the artist’s statement for the project. “The public will be able to visualise this shifting wind map from within the space by interpreting the sound around them.”
The artwork will be made of hundreds of light pipes that both draw the landscape of light into the building and hum at a series of low frequencies. The tubes act to frame and magnify the landscape so that from inside the structure, at its centre, visitors can see through one hundred of these pipes simultaneously, contemplating an ever-changing landscape of light.
With a grant from EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and the support of the acoustic engineering departments at the University of Southampton (ISVR) and University of Salford, the Aeolus will tour the windy hilltops of the UK before finding a permanent home.
Visit: http://lukejerram.com/
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