Listening to the sounds of nature is something almost hypnotizing, to which almost no one can resist.In fact, there are relaxing music tracks only with its melody: birds, the running of a stream, wind that whispers between the leaves of trees...But what would you think if, instead of listening to them through your headphones or your computer, you could listen to the amplified nature, without resorting to technology ? These speakers in the forest will allow it.
Natural speakers in the forest of Estonia
Now on display, in a forest near Tallinn in Estonia, there are three wooden speakers gigantic, built by the Estonian Academy of Arts and Architecture. These "megaphones" amplify the complex and subtle sounds of nature, but also make those of art installation and rest area.
Hannes Praks, head of the Academy's Interior Architecture Department, describes the three-meter-diameter speakers as "music kiosks" , which are traditionally circular or semicircular structures which are used for live musical performances in the parks.
«The placement of the three speakers, at a distance and at an angle when they make the sound in all three directions be fed in the center of the installation, so that it creates a unique fused surround effect , ”says Praks.
As notes Praks, the project was launched a year ago in a workshop deep in the forest of southern Estonia.Alli, the Interior Architecture students worked with the popular Valdur Mikiti.Se p proposed several ideas, but the group decided on the idea of the student Birgit Õigus, of the forest speakers.
The abandoned furniture designers Tõnis kalve and Ahti Grunberg, as well as the architects of the architecture firm b210, Aet Ader, Karin Tõugu and Kadri Klementi, instructed students in terms of design and construction. Most of the installation was built in Tallinn at the end of August and then sent to Võrumaa, nature center, near the border of Latvia, where they are now installed.
While the idea of Õigus may sound somewhat unnecessary to the casual observer, since forests are obviously places where nature and its musicality are easily perceived, the truth is that the symphony of the forests, their rhythms, musicality and environment, deserve to be fully amplified , and also without electricity.
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