Musician and Director of Sound Intervention, Dan Fox has created a fantastic, interactive sound map of the sounds he recorded at Harmonic Fields, an installation of 500 Aeolian wind instruments on Birkrigg Common near Ulverston last June. 

The event, brought to you by Pierre Sauvageot (lieux publics) and Lakes Alive, saw a mixture of conventional and purpose built instruments - for example, metal and wood cellos, strings, flutes, Balinese scarecrows, sirens, gongs, harps and bamboo organs - played and powered only by the wind. The sounds that they created, and the tempo of the music that they made depended entirely upon the strength and the direction of the wind. 

You can re-visit the installation or experience it for the very first time here. Click on Play + to hear the music created on each site location individually, or click on 'start mix' to listen to several different sites together. 

We love it! And now the memory lives on. Thank you Dan. 

Posted on Friday, 17 February 2012 | Permalink

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