Recording of the Week: Aeolian Harp by Marco Colasso & Martín Cruz

New friday! So, new installment of our “Recording of the Week” section a sound recorded this week. It’s a sound published some days ago, but I decided to include it simply because is awesome.

Marco Colasso and Martín Cruz, from a collective called Sonido Creativo (Chile, South America) recorded an aeolian harp at Embalse Puclaro, water reservoir conceived and created as a solution to the shortage of potable water to irrigate over 20,000 hectares in the region. Let’s listen:

Marco and Martín add:

The Eolian Harp overlooks the valley below the dam, facing a steady wind coming from the west. The strong wind makes 8 metal strings to vibrate and resonate with the whole body of the sculpture, giving rise to an incredible concert of metallic sounds that are heard from every viewpoint.

They used a Marantz digital recorder and two Rode NTG-2 microphones.

Recording of the Week is a series of posts dedicated to feature a sound recording published in the community during each week, in order to promote different kinds of recordists over the web.

Comments

3 responses to “Recording of the Week: Aeolian Harp by Marco Colasso & Martín Cruz”

  1. polly Avatar
    polly

    so, who made the sculpture?

  2. MC! Avatar

    Hi Polly, it was made by Mario Arenas Navarrete, proffesor at Universidad La Serena and three mor people (a physic-acoustic adviser, a sculptor adviser and a luthier). The project was financed by a government fund for arts.

  3. jgrzinich Avatar

    Nice! maybe you could get a contact mic recording as well to help cut out the wind noise.

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