"Wind Chimes": Using the Landscape to Create Sound.

"Behind using the outdoors as inspiration or even a concert space, there is a long tradition of using the wind as a sound maker." - Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories, page 74.

Continuing with the use of automatic processes, I felt that an interesting way to combine sound art and the landscape would be to take a more literal approach, using the features of the landscape as a way of making sound. Using Rauschenberg's approach of repurposing and recycling materials, I created a wind chime out of discarded bottles, left outside the City campus. I waited for a particularly windy day and tied the makeshift chime onto a branch, the bottles clanged together, creating an interesting sound texture.

I could expand on this concept of using the wind as a way of generating sound, with the use of glass bottles, I could create chimes that generated a measurable tone that is easier to hear. However, this runs the risk of the bottles shattering, with the use of a glass cutter (which I could source from the Glass Centre in St Peters), I could thread a wire through the bottle, tying more objects onto the wire that would hit the bottle. I will need to consult someone at the Glass Centre to see if this is possible and worth the time/effort.