Originally published at: One of the Pogues invented a machine that turns weather into music | Boing Boing
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A wonderful thing (but I don’t think that ‘water dripping’ is really ‘weather’).
One of the Pogues invented a machine that turns weather nature into music.
He specifically mentions nature, the landscape, cycles of the season and weather.
New Orleans musician Quintron has done something kind of similar. http://weatherfortheblind.org/
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I came to make sure this was mentioned. Quintron is an American treasure.
I wrote a paper on Japanese garden design aesthetics in college as part of my degree, and Japanese garden design was originally one of the things that made me want to study Japanese language.
I’d never heard of this device before, the Suikinkutsu. I may have heard these when visiting a bunch in Japan, but I can’t be certain. Very cool!
Seems a simple device, shape same in 3 videos I could find. Check this out, its a chamber buried in the ground.
This second one describes the shape.
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“the whole thing relies on nature with no intervention from man”…
Perhaps this is the ‘modern art’ part of this project… To question a piece of art made by a white male, hanging on the coat tales (enabled) by an alcoholic (Irish) white male… that is absolutely digging into and changing the landscape!
Get off my lawn… as you may trample the clover!
this is cool
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