Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Alexa Roberts Looking Out Week 9

The Acoustic Wind Pavilion by Luke Jerram was designed to make the shifting patters of the wind audible and to visually amplify the ever changing sky. The acoustic and optical pavilion is basically a large musical instrument. It is designed to sing with the wind without any electrical power or amplification. Vibrations in strings attached to some of the tubes are transferred through skins covering the tops of the pavilion, and projected down through the tubes towards the viewer standing beneath the arch. The stings register the shifting landscape of wind around the artwork. The aim is for the public to be able to visualize this shifting wind map by interpreting the sound around them.





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