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sound installation

WOODENXILOPHONE

xilofono
Woodenxilophone - the project

Wooden four meter high structures which were played by the wind. Each one emits only five notes in a fixed in advance sequence: their own melodies vary, however, depending on the duration and the strength of the wind.

A rudder orientate each woodenxilophone so that it can turn according with the direction of wind. So the woodenxilophone can be also acoustic revealers of the direction of the wind.

Since their level of sound is like the speech one, the woodenxilophones give us informations about the acoustic pollution too: they can be heard only where there is enough silence.

 

 

 

Volterra Italy 1992