I chose the "Singing Ringing Tree" for my audio blog, because it is just so extraordinary and creepy at the same time. It is a wind powered sound sculpture that is supposed to resemble a tree. It is set in the Pennine mountain range in Lancashire, England.
It is kind of like Bianca's dancing trees post but instead it is a creepy singing tree! hahaha. It sounds like aliens or something of that sort is attacking. It even kind of sounds and looks like a tornado. I find it interesting that it has the shape of a tornado and makes similar sounds to one. This says much about how sound is connected to shape/structure!
It looks like it took such a long time to build too, because it is pipe upon pipe...it just blew my mind. It has such an intimidating and grand structure, I'd be kind of scared to stand next to it.
This sound structure was completed in 2006 and designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tokin Liu. It is constructed by pipes of galvanised steel. The steel uses the energy of the wind to produce a scary, penetrating choral-like sound that can range several octaves..hence the slightly creepy howls emanating from it.
Some pipes are only structural and decorative elements of the tree, while some are used for the sound. The pipes were tuned according to their lengths by adding holes underneath them. A lot of thought was put into this audio art, which earned Tonkin Liu the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007. -Amena Kamel
It is kind of like Bianca's dancing trees post but instead it is a creepy singing tree! hahaha. It sounds like aliens or something of that sort is attacking. It even kind of sounds and looks like a tornado. I find it interesting that it has the shape of a tornado and makes similar sounds to one. This says much about how sound is connected to shape/structure!
It looks like it took such a long time to build too, because it is pipe upon pipe...it just blew my mind. It has such an intimidating and grand structure, I'd be kind of scared to stand next to it.
This sound structure was completed in 2006 and designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tokin Liu. It is constructed by pipes of galvanised steel. The steel uses the energy of the wind to produce a scary, penetrating choral-like sound that can range several octaves..hence the slightly creepy howls emanating from it.
Some pipes are only structural and decorative elements of the tree, while some are used for the sound. The pipes were tuned according to their lengths by adding holes underneath them. A lot of thought was put into this audio art, which earned Tonkin Liu the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007. -Amena Kamel