Modern musical instruments. 10 musical instruments of the future Ringing tree, singing sea
What could be surprising and unusual about your guitar, drums or synthesizer? Is it possible to somehow significantly modernize such familiar musical instruments? In fact, as much as possible! Today you can see these most unusual musical instruments of the future. And it is precisely such musical instruments that will be discussed in this article.
TENORI-ON
Yamaha TENORI-ON is an extraordinary, innovative digital musical instrument of the future. Its creators: Yamaha and Japanese artists Toshio Iwai and Yu. Nishibori. It is a square display consisting of 256 sensor buttons with LEDs inside. By pressing buttons, you create an “audio picture” of your music. It has mainly gained popularity among DJs and experimental performers. For example, Bjork actively uses the device at their concerts.
Hyper Touch: Touch Guitar Without Strings
An original concept by audiophile designer Max Battaglia, which showcased a new approach to the traditional electric guitar. Instead of strings on the neck of this amazing musical instrument, a touch panel is used, which has various settings and modes (for example, 6-string and 12-string guitar modes), which, according to the innovator, will provide new opportunities for sound extraction.
AIRPIANO
AirPiano, that is, “air piano”, is truly the most unusual musical instrument of the future. Playing it is so amazing that it seems like it was created by some unearthly mind... or the mind of the famous engineer Omer Yosh. The musical instrument is a long touch panel with a transparent glass cover. The sound range of the LED panel includes a full octave. To produce sound, the musician only needs to make several masterly movements in the air, without touching the instrument itself. A special interactive platform identifies the musician's movements and plays the corresponding notes.
EIGENHARP ALPHA
The Eigenharp Alpha hybrid musical instrument was developed by the British company Eigenlabs and is a 132 cm long neck. It includes instruments such as a saxophone, a synthesizer, a drum pad and a harmonica. At the top there are 120 ultra-sensitive keys, and at the bottom there are 12 “percussion” keys for a harder sound.
Each key responds to the slightest finger movement, down to one micron, allowing you to adjust many playing parameters, such as pitch, vibrato or filter cutoff frequency! Also on the neck of this unusual musical instrument there is a tube for blowing air, like a bassoon, and two additional controllers made in the form of stripes. It supports control of the “harp” via a MIDI interface connected to a computer. The Eigenharp Alpha comes with an 8GB bundle of various sampled instruments, drums and loops.
Laser harp
This unusual musical instrument is a modern embodiment of the classic harp! You not only need to listen to him, but also see him! A truly impressive sight! It consists of laser beams, the operating principle of which is similar to that of conventional strings, only they sound not from plucking, but from overlap.
The laser harp can also work as an independent MIDI controller; by connecting it to synthesizers and MIDI interfaces, you can obtain unusual sound synthesis and timbres. In general, with such a musical instrument of the future, at a minimum, a spectacular “live performance” is guaranteed!
Hang Drum
Today you won’t surprise anyone with electronic drum kits, Drum Pads and various controllers, but one very interesting development of the Swiss company “PANART” never ceases to amaze people, although it was created back in 2000. Hang Drum is a completely unusual musical instrument, also known as a “hand drum”, which looks like an alien flying saucer. You can extract sound from this wonderful device in different ways. For example, play with your fingertips, palm or its edge. This unique musical percussion instrument consists of two connected metal hemispheres.
The upper (sounding) hemisphere has 8 tonal zones, which form a circle of sounds of different tones. This sound wave radiates from the upper dome from a lower note to a higher one. The operating principle of this unique musical instrument was the result of many years of research into various metal and other percussion instruments from around the world: gongs, bells, singing bowls, Caribbean Indian drums, udu drums, etc. And most importantly, there are no rules for playing it, all that What you need is hands and a love of music.
What could be surprising and unusual about your guitar, drums or synthesizer? Is it possible to somehow radically improve such familiar musical instruments? Our answer is as much as possible!
Today you can see these most unusual musical instruments of the future. And it is precisely these musical instruments that we will discuss in today’s article.
Our modern world is uncontrollably gaining momentum in the field of new technologies! They change our views, our thinking - they change us! Today, an “advanced” person must quickly “catch the wave” of iPads, TouchPads, Tablets, Androids and similar cyber innovations, otherwise he will be left “overboard.” And I had a question: how are new technologies introduced and synthesized with musical instruments that are so familiar to us? What will we play on in a couple of decades? What will the guitar of the future look like?
Hyper Touch: Touch Guitar Without Strings
The first exhibit in a series of unusual musical instruments of the future is an original concept by music lover designer Max Battaglia, which demonstrated a new approach to the traditional electric guitar. Instead of strings on the neck of this amazing musical instrument, a touch panel is used, which has various settings and modes (for example, 6-string and 12-string guitar modes), which, according to the innovator, will provide new opportunities for sound extraction. Well, thanks to him for at least leaving the body shape of this guitar of the future familiar (and, by the way, a completely natural bridge lever), unlike the next instrument.
Kitar Guitar
And here again, no usual strings, just some kind of relative of the controller for Guitar Hero! But in fact, according to Misa Digital, this is a full-fledged musical instrument - an unusual hybrid of a synthesizer and a guitar of the future. The Kitara Touchscreen features an 8-inch touchscreen display and buttons on the neck. By analogy with a synthesizer, hundreds of different sounds are recorded in the instrument’s memory. It went on sale at the end of 2011 and its cost ranges from $850 to $2,500. Well, it would be interesting to try; the design of this yet another unusual musical instrument is captivating.
iTar – the guitar of the future
ITar - this unusual musical instrument of the future is a development of Starr Labs; it is a synthesis of a push-button neck and the popular iPad tablet. This unusual guitar of the future (although it is very doubtful to apply the word “guitar” to this device) can easily perform the functions of other various musical instruments - drums, bass, or keyboards, for which special applications are launched. To use, everything is quite simple: the strings appear on the display, and the futuristic neck acts as a regular guitar neck. But, in my opinion, this is, of course, a toy, and not a musical instrument for a real musician.
Hang Drum
Today you won’t surprise anyone with electronic drum kits, Drum Pads and various controllers, but one very interesting development of the Swiss company “PANART” never ceases to amaze people, although it was created back in 2000.
Hang Drum is a completely unusual musical instrument, also known as a “hand drum”, which looks like an alien flying saucer. You can extract sound from this wonderful device in different ways. For example, play with your fingertips, palm or its edge. This unique musical percussion instrument consists of two connected metal hemispheres. The upper (sounding) hemisphere has 8 tonal zones, which form a circle of sounds of different tones. This sound wave radiates from the upper dome from a lower note to a higher one.
The operating principle of this unique musical instrument was the result of many years of research into various metal and other percussion instruments from around the world: gongs, bells, singing bowls, Caribbean Indian drums, udu drums, etc. And most importantly, there are no rules for playing it, all that What you need is hands and a love of music. =)
AIRPIANO
AirPiano, which means “air piano”, is truly the most unusual musical instrument of the future. Playing it is so amazing that it seems like it was created by some other mind not from here... or by the famous engineer Omer Yosha.
The musical instrument is a long touch panel with a transparent glass cover. The sound range of the LED panel includes a full octave. To produce sound, the musician only needs to make several masterly movements in the air, without touching the instrument itself. A special interactive platform identifies the musician's movements and plays the corresponding notes. In general, this magic is a must see!
TENORI-ON
Yamaha TENORI-ON is an unusual, innovative digital musical instrument of the future. Its creators: Yamaha and Japanese artists Toshio Iwai and Yu. Nishibori. It is a square display consisting of 256 sensor buttons with LEDs inside. By pressing buttons, you create an “audio picture” of your music.
It has mainly gained popularity among DJs and experimental performers (for example, Bjork actively uses the device at their concerts).
EIGENHARP ALPHA
What do you get if you combine musical instruments such as a saxophone, a synthesizer, a drum pad and a harmonica in one instrument? Eigenharp Alpha! This hybrid musical instrument was developed by the British company Eigenlabs and is a 132 cm long neck (which is comfortable to hold like a harp - hence the name of the instrument “self-harp”), in the upper part of which there are 120 ultra-sensitive keys, and in the lower part - 12 “percussion” keys for a harder sound. Each key responds to the slightest finger movement, down to one micron, allowing you to adjust many playing parameters, such as pitch, vibrato or filter cutoff frequency! Also on the neck of this unusual musical instrument there is a tube for blowing air, like a bassoon, and two additional controllers made in the form of stripes.
It supports control of the “harp” via a MIDI interface connected to a computer. The Eigenharp Alpha comes with an 8 GB set of various sampled instruments, drums and loops. The cost of this musical instrument of the future is also ultra-sensitive - approximately $5800!
LASER HARP
This unusual musical instrument is a modern embodiment of the classic harp! You not only need to listen to him, but also see him! A truly impressive sight! It consists of laser beams, the operating principle of which is similar to that of conventional strings, only they sound not from plucking, but from overlap. The laser harp can also work as an independent MIDI controller; by connecting it to synthesizers and MIDI interfaces, you can obtain unusual sound synthesis and timbres. In general, with such a musical instrument of the future, at a minimum, a spectacular “live performance” is guaranteed!
New technologies are rapidly conquering the world of music, developing it, making it, of course, richer and more diverse, and this is wonderful! But personally, it seems to me that no gadget, not even the most unusual musical instrument of the future, can replace that feeling when you pick up a “live” instrument and create “live sound”!
What will the music of the future be written on? Eigenharp, gamelesta, glucophone and fruit piano
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AlphaSphere
Musical revolutions have always been directly related to technological ones: new directions were born with the discovery of new instruments or new methods of sound recording/playback. Especially in the last century - the century of industrialization and scientific and technological revolution. It all started even earlier - let's assume that in 1889, when Claude Debussy heard Javanese gamelan at the Paris World Exhibition, he was inspired and led modernism to exotic modes and sonorism. Further - more: the electric guitar gave birth to rock, cheap mass synthesizers - new wave and synth-pop, vinyl players and records, grandchildren of the Edison phonograph - hip-hop, bass synthesizer TB-303 - acid house, home computers - a host of trends in electronic music, etc. Perhaps the music of the future is already being recorded on one of these new century instruments or interfaces.
Tools
A hybrid of digital guitar, bassoon, synthesizer and drum machine. It has joystick keys (each note can be pulled up), a wind synthesizer, a ribbon controller, percussion buttons, and a built-in sequencer. An excellent solution for electronic engineers who want to look like rockers from outer space on stage. Musician of the trance-ambient group Shen John Lambert developed the eigenharp for 8 years and presented it to the public in 2009.
Cost: 549 euros
An example of a modern music box: Eric Singer, instead of a guitar neck, left one saddle, which moves along each of the strings to the position required for a certain note (a kind of slide effect is obtained), and a rotating pick hits the strings. Controlled via MIDI.
Not for sale
An analog instrument developed in 2000 and presented the following year at the Musikmesse exhibition in Frankfurt. The steel drum, similar to a flying saucer, consists of two parts: on the top, Ding, there are eight “fields”, according to the number of notes; at the bottom, Gu, there is a bass hole, you can tap it or control the sound of the top part. Hangdrum was invented in Switzerland, you can buy it by sending an order to PANArt by regular mail - the fact is that the production is small and does not work on a regular basis.
Cost: 2500-6000 euros
Cousin of the hang - without a bass hole, but also with eight fields. Californians Graham Dow and Trish Kelly came up with it in 2008, investing money received from their didgeridoo store into the development. Now they sell their drum not only to musicians, but also to music therapists - the sound of the hepidram is compared to the bells used in Buddhist meditation. In Russia it is nicknamed “glucophone”.
Cost: $275-650
Since last year, at the concerts of the singer Björk, known for her passion for everything new, based on the album “Biophilia”, you can see this instrument - a synthesis of the Javanese gamelan (an orchestra of Indonesian string and percussion instruments) and the Italian celesta. Gamelesta is equipped with a MIDI interface, that is, it is controlled using a computer. It was made especially for Björk in 2011 by the singer’s compatriot Björgvin Tomasson, a famous organ master.
Not for sale
A hybrid of guitar and keyboard, similar to a large zither. The sound is produced by pressing the strings against the panel - that is, by tapping. There are 16- and 24-string harpeggi for four and five octaves. It is, for example, played by the keyboardist of prog-monsters Dream Theater, Jordan Rudess - however, he seems to be exploring any new instrument that appears on the market. Harpeji is heard in Danny Boyle's film 127 Hours - and in the main theme of composer Alla Rakha Rahman, recorded with the participation of Dido and nominated for an Oscar.
Cost: $1999-$3999
7. Hydraulophone
University of Toronto professor Steve Mann in 2006 presented not just another development in the field of computational photography, as his colleagues were already accustomed to, but a new tool. Essentially, it works like a flute - only by closing the holes, you block the path not of air, but of a stream of water. In one variation, called balnaphone, the performer sits in a bathtub.
Approximate cost: by agreement
8. String Station
Prog rocker Jim Bartz put together an eight-string slide guitar, a six-string electric guitar and a 10-string stick (that is, a guitar whose body is an enlarged neck), added more wires and microcircuits - the result was an instrument with 40 strings. The musician gives concerts using his invention and is looking for funds to put it into production.
Exists in a single copy
The family of instruments from the Dewan brothers, Brian and Leon, is a fetish for retro musicians. The cuckoo clock-like boxes contain oscillators that generate analog sound shapes. The Swarmatron synthesizer, which is most similar to its ancestors, has eight of them. The sound resembles, as the creators say, a swarm of angels or bees - as the hands turn. Trent Reznor loved the tool; he used it in his work on the film “The Social Network” and the project “How to Destroy Angels.” The Deuans themselves perform with them at concerts, score silent films, and two years ago they were set up as the opening act by Magnetic Fields leader Stephen Merritt, who subsequently partially recorded the album “Love at the Bottom of the Sea” on deuantrons.
Cost: $3250
Interfaces
10. The Continuum Fingerboard
A long neoprene panel that is played by moving your fingers left and right. Then it’s like with a touchpad: by moving vertically across the panel, you can control the tone. And if you press harder, the note will sound louder. This MIDI controller was used to record the music for the films 127 Hours and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It is used, for example, by John Paul Jones and Amon Tobin.
Cost: 3000-5500 dollars
Last year's development from Misa Digital Instruments, whose main office is located in Hong Kong. This digital guitar has no strings at all, instead there is an image on a touch screen. Each fret is divided into six buttons. As a result, you can, as it were, produce synthetic sounds on a guitar (a synth block with timbres and effects is the third component of the instrument), assigning a different sound to each string. The project operates on the open source principle.
Price: from $789
The instrument, invented by the American Jeff Trip, is keys that can not only be pressed, but also pushed back and forth, like faders on a mixing console. Thus, the musician has the opportunity to control the sound without taking his hands off the instrument.
Cost: “If you are asking about the price, it means you can’t afford it,” says the ad on the website
It looks like a button accordion that only has panels with buttons left. The first jammer was invented in 2003 by former Microsoft employee Jim Plamondon and called it Thummer. True, the manufacturing company closed in 2009. Now they are assembled by enthusiasts using diagrams posted online.
Cost: $375
The most famous of the newcomers was developed by the Japanese, artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha Music Technology Center employee Yu Nishibori, and was first shown to the public in 2005 at the Los Angeles Siggraph exhibition. Everything is very clear: a screen with 256 LED switches. You click a picture in real time, like in any sequencer program, and you get a melody or rhythm. Jim O'Rourke, the projects To Rococo Rot, Pole and others took part in the promotional tour of the music box. They used Massive Attack and Little Boots. It went on wide sale in 2007, in 2010 a new commercial model appeared, Tenori-on Orange , made of plastic rather than magnesium alloy, and therefore cheaper.
Approximate cost: 500-1000 dollars
Catalan development, from the University of Pompeu Fabra. It looks like a cabinet with an illuminated surface; there is a camera at the bottom that transmits data to the computer (the action takes place in a darkened room). Flat or cubic objects called tangibles are placed on the surface. Each object represents a synthesizer module, a sequencer, or, for example, a periodic trigger. And sound appears, and symbols appear on the screen, some of them suggest what this or that object does, others can be controlled by connecting tangibles into a single system.
Reactable could be seen at a concert in support of Björk's album "Volta" - Mark Bell played on it, and also at a performance on the British TV show Later with Jools Holland. It was also used by the Nero project in the “Promises” video. A version for iPad was released in 2010.
Cost: $9,700
In 2007, a student at the University of Bristol, Adam Place, turned a sampler into a sphere, placing pads on it (click on such a circle - you get a sound or even an entire fragment of a composition). It looks so impressive that its creator received 50 thousand pounds worth of grants and subsidies for the development of the project. The start of sales is scheduled for the middle of this year, the price has not yet been announced.
P.S. Resistor JelTone
Sometimes, however, not all inventors are so serious. Here's one of the entrants into the University of Georgia's Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition - an edible fruit piano. Bon appetit. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ranjit/5879592536/
Futuristic instruments are avant-garde decisions of musicians, into which they invest both form and content. Musicians have not canceled the violin and piano; after all, on the scale of history, they were also invented not so long ago. But creativity and modern technology do not allow us to sit still. And now, one after another, previously unknown instruments enter our lives. You can already buy them in the online store https://musicbase.ru/.
1. Harpeji is the embodiment of the long-term dream of thousands of musicians to combine keyboards and string instruments. In 2007, this idea was brought to life. This instrument can be four or five octaves. When playing the harpeji, the performer has the opportunity to cover two octaves at once, expanding the range of his capabilities.
2. Seaboard GRAND - a new type of synthesizer that appeared in 1912. This is a monolithic structure. Essentially, one large key, sensitive not only to touches of varying strengths, but also to sliding and clamping. Since the gaming panel has convexities, the instrument vaguely resembles a piano.
3. Reactable - an instrument that can be played by a whole team, sitting in a circle above its illuminated panel. By reacting to the slightest touch on the tablet screen, musicians can create real masterpieces.
4. Continuum is not a sound generator. It is, rather, a controller capable of supporting the polyphony of music. You can change both the volume and timbre by smoothly moving your fingers along the working surface. You can switch from a single-voice mode to equal and compositional-technical voices.
5. Eigenharp Alpha - either a saxophone or a synthesizer, plus a drum machine and harmonica. This whole mix fits easily on the neck, which is not oversized at all. It is convenient to hold it like a harp, and blow air into a special tube.
6. Airpiano is an instrument with a non-contact keyboard. The touch panel, under the glass cover, is controlled without any touch. The musician produces sound by moving his hands above the surface. In addition, Airpiano acts as a controller and gives hints to the performer.
7. The laser harp is a modern version of the regular harp. The strings were replaced with beams, the chips with overlap. True, the timbre and sound synthesis have changed.
8. Gamelesta is an acoustic-sounding computer instrument that appeared in 2011. It looks like a small sample organ, but it sounds like a bell whose sound is synthesized.
9. Glucophone is a percussion instrument, far from the classical drum. A little more than ten years have passed since its appearance, but listeners are very fond of it because of its unusual, bewitching sound, conducive to relaxation. Its sound is similar to a mix of a bell and a harp.
10. Alpha Sphere is an instrument that won the hearts of musicians not with the novelty of sound generation, but with a youthful design solution. I really liked the synthesizer in the form of a sphere as an element of the show. The originality of the interface and sound made this instrument quite popular.
“Modern inventions”: behind these words, it seems to us, there are always high technologies. Robotics, neural interfaces, neural networks. In the twentieth century, power instruments and the computer came to music - and the latter, it would seem, should have extinguished the ardor of all inventors. Composers were doomed to simply sit down at the monitor. But this did not happen - even for the creators of acoustic instruments, a renaissance has arrived today, because they have at their disposal the materials and technologies of all past eras. Not to mention electric ones. Below are seven amazing musical instruments of modern times.
Hang
Let's start with the most popular instrument, which can be found even among street musicians. Not in its original form, however: the authentic hang, developed at the very turn of the new century, in 2000, by Swiss inventors Felix Rohner and Sabine Scherer, was finished producing in 2014. And although inventors are now offering an analogue called Gubal, most musicians turn to competing companies.
What is hang? This is a percussion instrument in the form of two metal hemispheres connected into a disk. Along the perimeter of the top there are recesses - a tonal circle.
The hanga family refers to instruments similar to it, also known as handpans. Today you can find a school where they teach how to play handpans, and you can also contact the Russian masters who make them. There is a patented Russian brand - SpB Pantam.
The closest and most famous brother of the hang is HANT (have a nice trip) or, in Russian translation, glucophon. The sound of both instruments is called cosmic - and visually this is confirmed by the resemblance to a flying saucer.
Harpeji
Another young but promising instrument is the harpeggi, a hybrid of piano and guitar, completely reminiscent of a zither in appearance. Released in 2007, it has already made its mark throughout the world: for example, in the film “127 Hours,” which was nominated for an Oscar, including for the soundtrack.
This is less like sounds from outer space - but it’s hard to believe that the music is produced not by a synthesizer, but by an electric instrument on which a string is simply pressed with tapping.
Wheel harp
This name is no longer well-known, and the instrument itself is only three years old: it was presented to the public in 2013. If the inventors of the hang and its ideologists are inspired by ancient percussion instruments, then the wheel harp was developed according to the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci - it is best to say “based on”, because full-fledged drawings have not survived to this day.
The sound of the wheel harp is usually described as "thick polyphony", similar to the sound of a "full string orchestra". And this is how it works. The wheel is rotated by a pedal equipped with an electric drive, and the key activates the corresponding string, which approaches the wheel. It is coated with rosin, which imitates the movement of a bow.
Wintergatan Marble Machine
If the sound of the wheel harp seemed too heavy to you, we can offer an instrument that is much more sentimental and easier to understand. This is essentially a machine for rolling balls, which fall onto xylophone keys and produce fabulously optimistic music.
Wintergatan is the name of the band in which the inventor of this miracle machine, Martin Moulin, plays. And if it seemed to you that the music sounding in the video seemed to be borrowed from “Amelie” - do not be surprised: Mulin’s music is most often compared to the work of Yann Tiersen. Ever since the life of such a band as Detektivbyrån, in which he used to play.
Unlike previous instruments, Marble Machine was originally conceived as a one-piece item. The inventor did not intend to put the machine into mass production: it was too expensive.
Just one such giant music box in 2015 required two thousand balls.
If you are so inspired by it and want to recreate it yourself, of course you can do it. The engineering basis can be implemented using ready-made drawings, modifying them taking into account xylophone keys. But this work is clearly for those who have plenty of enthusiasm and time.
By the way, Mulin is the inventor of not only this instrument. While performing with Wintergatan, he already tried other, more compact machines.
Gamelesta and Sharpsicord
So, sometimes instruments are born out of the needs of musicians who find it difficult to fit into traditional forms. Therefore, we can’t help but say something about Björk, the famous Icelandic experimenter in the field of sound.
In 2011, her compatriot, organ master Bjorgvin Tomasson, invented a special instrument especially for the singer - the gamelesta. The name comes from the Indonesian gamelan (an orchestra of strings and percussion instruments) and the French celesta - and represents a kind of synthesis. Although Gamelesta is controlled by a computer, it has an exclusively acoustic sound, primarily reminiscent of a bell.
But the gamelesta is not the only unusual instrument that sounded in Björk’s music and gained relative fame thanks to her.
There is also a sharpsicord created by Henry Dagg - this is a huge music box with a drum rotating thanks to energy from a solar panel. There are 11,520 holes made in it - by plugging them, the musician programs the melody, which is very time-consuming: to provide a few minutes of music, you have to spend a whole day at the instrument.
Hydrolophone
This “water flute” appears to be a regular fountain and begins to sound when the musician presses his fingers into the holes in the tube - just like when playing a regular flute. Although experts note that the hydrolophone is more likely to be related to the piano and organ, since we are talking about the sound that the pipes connected to this cavity emit.
The instrument was invented recently - in 2006, but it has already won the hearts of a completely different audience: people perform with it accompanied by an orchestra, and anyone can have fun with it in large parks around the world.
Its creator, Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto, has designed many options - even installed in a jacuzzi. But the hydrolophones in park fountains and other public places have become the most “popular” - and this does not exclude their originality. For example, at the Legoland water park in Carlsbad (California), the hydrolophone body is made of huge Lego blocks, and some copies are equipped with Braille markings so that blind and visually impaired people can play.
The largest hydrolophone is located in front of the scientific center in the Canadian province of Ontario. It also has its own name - Telusscape, and it is available to everyone around the clock. True, only in the warm season.
Ringing tree, singing sea
And, finally, a special category of instruments: not for professional musicians, not for ordinary people relaxing in the park, but... for nature. Such installations use the elements - and spontaneously produce music. Since the avant-garde of the twentieth century significantly expanded the meaning of the word “art,” including when it comes to music, we can say that this is what it is.
A striking example is the Singing Ringing Tree, a “tree” made of steel pipes, built in East Lancashire (England). The wind has been playing on it since 2006.
There is also an instrument similar to it, which plays from the force of the surf - the sea organ. As many as three such specimens are located in Blackpool, San Francisco and Croatia. The most famous can be considered the third, built in 2005 in the city of Zadar.
The harmony of the world knows no boundaries, and neither does musical harmony. Art will take on more and more new forms, and the beauty of music will never cease to excite the soul. But there is beauty in the change of forms as such - in the very desire of man for the new.
