Klangmikroskop / Sonic Microscope

Stations-ID: D079

Instructions:

Take a glove or a blue cloth.

Take hold of an aluminium bar with your thumb and index finger and move your hand slowly outward, varying pressure and speed as you go.

• Where can you generate a tone easily?

• What are the differences between the tones produced by the different bars?

• Listen along the length of the top bar, where is the sound at it’s loudest?

• Touch a bar gently with the tip of your finger, while it is ringing. What do you feel?

• What do you feel when you touch the the round top of a ringing bar?

This station was built by Dresden-based musician Jan Heinke. With the steel cellos and steel harps he has constructed, he has created a unique sound which can hardly be compared to the sound of classical instruments.

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