Singing Bridges is an urban sonic sculpture on a global scale, making music with the sound of bridges. A poetic, philosophical and creative work that helps transform our perception and experience of the world by tuning in to the intangible. Connecting people, places and cultures, bridges are always singing, all we need to do is stop and listen.
| Environmentally Sensitive Installation, Sound Sculpture, Permanent Installation, Audience Interactive Installation and Interactive Installation |
| Location: Campbelltown, NSW, Australia |
| By Joan Brassil. Tuning of wires by Alan Lamb. Part of the collection of the Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery and purchased with assistance from the Australia Council 2001. Stainless steel, steel, wire, concrete, jarrah. |
Max Eastley | Installation Recordings: 1973-2008 | Paradigm Discs | 2010
This 2CD is essentially a retrospective of Eastley’s installation work. As such, it updates and adds many new examples to the 1975 release “New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments”, which was released as a split LP with David Toop on Brian Eno’s Obscure Records. Continue reading Max Eastley
Paul Panhuysen was a Dutch composer, visual and sound artist. He founded and directed Het Apollohuis, an art space that functioned during the 80’s and 90’s having artist doing sound installations, sound sculptures and concerts about free improvisations, experimental musics and electronic music.
http://www.paulpanhuysen.nl/home.htm
Alan Lamb Interview by Chris Watson on BBC 4. with classic Alan Field recordings / Experimental soundscapes in the background. Two legends and pioneers of natural sound engineering, both active from early 70’s.
Alan Lamb is an Australian artist, composer, and sound sculptor. He is best known for installations of large scale Aeolian harps, such as his album Primal Image, which consists of contact microphone recordings of kilometre long spans of telegraph wire on 12 acres (49,000 m2) in rural Baldivis south of Perth purchased for that purpose.
In the ICC (International Cultural Centre) in Antwerp the visual artist and singer George Smits presented in 1981 a performance that focused on his concept of ‘Isomopolis’ (or ‘Polystyrenopolis’ in English): an amalgam of sculptures that produce acoustic vibrations and retain them for a long period of time. The artist had started this project in the 1970s, and he created ever more impressive sculptures with polystyrene and strings. They came in all sorts of sizes and types: tightly stretched or spiral-shapes strings, piano strings, strings attached to bamboo or to objects made of polystyrene foam.
Ellen Fullman and the Long String Instrument in performance on March 9, 2013. With area musicians Abby Alwin (cello) and James Cornish (trumpet), and visiting musician Theresa Wong (cello).
ECHO | NOTHING 