And then, maybe, name a band after it?
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I’m surprised that there are people who still use an old explanation ‘tactic’ that attempts to portray “technical competence” while simultaneously signaling “thoughtlessness”, in the hope that the former would somehow negate the latter.
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Every little breeze seems to whisper Louise.
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the environmental report said “The project would not result in a substantial permanent increase in ambient noise levels in the project vicinity above levels existing without the project”
meanwhile, it is another windy day here in San Francisco
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My wife often plays her harp outdoors and it does this in anything stronger than a light breeze. Better tone quality, though.
I don’t expect bridge engineers to think about acoustics, but I do expect them to think about wind and resonant frequencies. And it sounds like they did know this would happen but just ignored it, or thought it wouldn’t be so bad?
Or maybe just used flawed/incomplete models when planning for it?
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They made a TV series out of it
It was pretty good but nobody paid attention and it got canceled after two years
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Not all the time. Seriously, they won’t let this continue unchanged, there are a lot of people with clout in SF and to the north of the bridge.
I’d be happy with some nice samples.
You mean this…
or this?
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I mean samples of the Golden Gate singing, for use as ominous tracks in some sort of music. Great clips though. Soundgarden rocked.
Basically they made a huge Aeolian harp.
It has been done before, just not on this scale.
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It’s called an Aeolian Harp. They just need to tune it better.
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Maybe it’s the beginning of a John Cage performance?
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I’m so sorry. It’s an awful thing.
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Artist adds installation that causes bridge to make music and nobody bats an eye. Engineers build a bridge that accidentally makes music and everybody loses their minds.
If the bridge cables hummed, it would be an aeolian harp. Harps have strings. If the new walkway gaps vibrated as reeds, it would be an aeolian harmonica. Those gaps instead function as whistles, so it’s an aeolian panpipe.
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