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Submitted by Rob Richards on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 2:41pm.
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A sound garden!

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Now that's funny - and the

Now that's funny - and the idea's pretty cool too.

Thanks for the photo Rob

You can blow out a candle / But you can't blow out a fire / Once the flames begin to catch / The wind will blow it higher

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Lots of Water

That's the key.
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It's also important

to pick plants that can live in harmony with each other.

Wait! Wait! The Octave Garden?

I wonder if you can play "Land of a Thousand Plantses" on that thing?

 

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No. This is a sound garden

 

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What is that?

What is that?



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The Sound Garden at Sand Point in Seattle

The towers are about 25 feet tall holding a device that swivels in the wind. There are tubes of various lengths on the front of the part that swivels. The bottom end of the tube is plugged causing the tubes to resonate as wind blows over the open end. The sound the collective installment creates is low and haunting moan. It's a great soundtrack for a winter day.

Due to  NOAA building and Homeland Insecurity madness access to the Sound Garden is now restricted. Details here

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Yes but its not interactive

this is my piano planter and the actual piano harp sound board will be turned around to make it an interactive to the public. i am a new artist in town and this has been a wonderful way to meet people in front of my house.
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nice

Welcome to Olympia, welcome to OlyBlog and thank you for the installation.

"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe

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Don't get me wrong

I really like your installation. Very cool. On a different tangent I also like your nom de plume but I have to ask. Do you believe in Sasquatch? Not as a metaphor or myth but as an actual species? I believe because as a lad I heard and smelled one along the Toutle river.
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Hi! I'm glad you found the

Hi!

I'm glad you found the post (I'm the person who mentioned it to you.) and think the mallet that you included is a lot of fun. The park that I mentioned which has the interactive sound displays is, if I remember correctly, part of a museum near Wellesly, MA.

This might be a good place to post about your art, as well.

Don't eat meat, ride a bike...that's how you can brake global warming, the head of the United Nation's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change said...

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p.s. I like the addition of the tree (a mouseover)



"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe

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Art

Arr is mystical and occurs when at least one level of abstraction removes it from reality.
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I also like how the piano was built around the tree.

Piano Planter

Piano Planter

Piano Planter

Piano Planter

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