[020] Sea Organ

Label: Wonderfulsound

Catalog#: -

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: UK

Released: 2015

1　Sea Organ
2　Solo
3　Mid Morning With Fishing Boat
4　The Pipes
5　On The Waterfront
6　Giant
7　Stirring And Snoozing
8　Up Close
9　The Conversation
10　Around Midnight
11　Mermaid

クロアチア、ダルマチア地方の小さな港街ザダルの海岸にある「シーオルガン」のフィールド・レコーディング作品。第二次世界大戦後の再開発で一面コンクリート護岸になり、地元の人々が寄り付かなくなってしまったという海岸環境を、リデザインするプロジェクトの一環として、2005年にクロアチア人建築家Nikola Bašić（ニコラ・バシッチ）により建造されたもの。今では地元の人達や観光客の憩いの場として親しまれているそうです。海に面した大理石の階段の下には、35本の調律されたポリエチレン製パイプが設けられ、波や潮力の加減でパイプの中を空気が通り、オルガンや笛のように「ボーボー」と音が鳴る仕掛け。気象条件や船の往来でさまざまに音色を変えるこの「波と風の音楽」を、英インディポップ・バンドThe Superimposersのライヴ・パフォーマンスとDJのために当地を訪ねたMiles Copeland（マイルス・コープランド）が録音。ロンドンのレーベルWonderfulsoundからCDとVinylでリリース。

The sounds perfectly preserved on this disc were recorded by Miles Copeland on a visit to Croatia whilst DJing and performing with his band The Superimposers at a music festival on the Adriatic Coast. A friend recommended he make the short journey to the city of Zadar and visit the Sea Organ. The Sea Organ turned out to be a 70 metre sound installation by architect Nikola Basic, conceived as part of a project to redesign the coast after the devastation Zadar suffered in World War 2. Open to the public in 2005, the Sea Organ is implanted into the marble steps of the harbour walls. It has 35 organ pipes, which are played by the pressure of the tidal waves lapping air through tuned tubes. The resulting sound wholly depends on the character of the sea affected by weather conditions or harbour traffic, whose ripples create random harmonics and musical chords. 7 successive groups of pipes are tuned to 2 musically cognate chords of the diatonic major scale. Tones and chords are played to create the music as heard on this recording. The end result is a totally random, occasionally aggressive and sometimes soothing performance, which is, of course, played constantly. Miles returned to the giant Sea Organ that weekend numerous times and made these recordings. - wonderfulsound

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