Michele Spanghero "Echea Aeolica" (2015) sound sculpture

Michele Spanghero
Echea Aeolica (2015)
sound sculpture
varnished fiberglass and stell
dim. 142x180x131cm
This work is a big resonating amphora designed to sound the wind that blows from the shore in Siracusa, Sicily. The shape of the sculpture derives from ancient “echea” amphoras as to create a connection to the ancient history of the land as if it leads an echo from afar. The clean modernist shape gives solemnity and soft coziness together to the work inviting the audience to put their ear close to the sculpture to listen to the resonance of the wind and the sounds of the surrounding ambience.
www.michelespanghero.com
2015 © Michele Spanghero

[@semirecumbentoneYT]

So incredibly cute 😄🥰 Very interesting sculpture and sound, it may sound differently according to wind direction, and power, and even weather.

[@mimesys]

Thanks 🙂

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Damn

[@BruceTheSillyGoose]

how big would it have to be made in order to sound 2 octaves lower?

[@mimesys]

a bigger one would probably resonate infrasonic frequencies

[@BruceTheSillyGoose]

@@mimesys it'd have to be several orders of magnitude bigger to do that. a 20 cycle tone has a wavelength of about 56 feet, a quarter-wave [must be that size or larger to resonate] of that would be 14 feet, so i guess i answered my own question then unintentionally. ;) i'd love to see and hear one that large and deep.

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