These bowls in water are great autogenerated sound art piece, the flowing water disrupts the pool of water, and the different sized ceramic bowls hit each other producing different tones. The guitar piece, is probably one of my first exposures to Sound Art. When I was in College, this was playing at The Barbican. I like these autogenerated pieces. Naturally occurring, auto generated pieces are quite fascinating, when reading up on Muzak and Background Music, a lot of the sources I studied referred back to the Aoelian Harp, as the earliest instance of background music. A harp in a location where the wind will cause the vibration of its strings causing a drone-y ambient chord.
These Aeolian harps are not only visually interesting, they also producing very satisfying sounds.
I liked Ben Patterson’s use of plastic frogs, as it was taking a benign object away from its primary use. That is why I am liking these Wing Organs from plastic bottles. This could make an interesting sculpture, or at least could be used to create some quite interesting field recordings. Assembling a bunch of different sized bottles could make for a very interesting modern wind harp.