{"id":1418,"date":"2013-11-12T13:47:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/a-sound-garden\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T22:54:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T06:54:30","slug":"a-sound-garden","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/a-sound-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sound Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1418-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1aGUPZc53cQ?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1aGUPZc53cQ\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/1aGUPZc53cQ<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><em>A Sound Garden<\/em>, by Douglas Hollis, is an installation of 12 tower-like structures in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#39;s Seattle location, near Warren G. Magnuson Park on Lake Washington, a few miles northeast of the University of Washington [1]. It is a part of that NOAA facility&#39;s Art Walk, which contains 4 other pieces in addition to A Sound Garden [3].&nbsp;The structures contain pipes that generate a wide variety of sounds, depending on how fast the wind is blowing and in which direction [2]. As the area that <em>A Sound Garden<\/em> is usually windy and the winds can vary greatly, you&#39;ll almost always hear something if you pay the piece a visit and you&#39;re unlikely to hear it play the same patterns of sounds if you visit it more than once. Actually visiting it doesn&#39;t come without hurdles, though: Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the NOAA facility and all of the art pieces on it, including this one, have been placed under semi-restricted access. It can still be visited for free, but there are a lot of things you can&#39;t bring with you and any bags you carry will be searched on entrance to the facility [1] [2].<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"origin.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/origin.jpg\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px;\" \/>Although the pitches and &quot;notes&quot; played by the pipes vary a lot, the sounds generated by the pipes almost always sound similar, as they would for any instrument: The notes usually take the form a loud, whistling, moaning, howling sound, which can be both beautiful and a little bit eerie to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>Though there are five pieces of Art on the NOAA Art Walk, <em>A Sound Garden<\/em> is by far the most popular. In part, this is because the sound aspect of it makes it the most interesting but it is also notorious because The Seattle Grunge band <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soundgarden\">Soundgarden<\/a> named itself after it[3].&nbsp;<em>Viewpoint Terrace<\/em> or <em>Berth Haven<\/em>&nbsp;are not very good names for a band!<\/p>\n<p>The artist, Douglas Hollis, who styles himself as a &quot;Sound Sculptor&quot; [3] has done many other aeolian public art projects, including <em>Singing Bridges<\/em> on the&nbsp;Niagara River and <em>Aeolean Harp<\/em> (2013, video below) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/exploratorium.edu\">Exploratorium<\/a> on Pier 15 in San Francisco [3].<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1418-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CtzSm76ppS4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CtzSm76ppS4\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/CtzSm76ppS4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/1892574\/The-Sound-Garden\">http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/1892574\/The-Sound-Garden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/parks\/magnuson\/art.htm#noaa\">http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/parks\/magnuson\/art.htm#noaa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[3] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/parks\/magnuson\/docs\/NOAA_art_walk_brochure.pdf\">http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/parks\/magnuson\/docs\/NOAA_art_walk_brochure.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4001,"template":"","artist":[1419],"streams":[8,20,2],"keywords":[5309,3558,4808,2136,5310,5311,3004,2323,4556,5308,2991],"decade":[5542],"media":[5550],"class_list":["post-1418","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-douglas-hollis","streams-charged-environments","streams-exhibitions-institutions-communities-collaborations","streams-motion-duration-illumination","keywords-aeolean","keywords-earth","keywords-exploratorium","keywords-kinetic","keywords-land","keywords-noaa","keywords-public","keywords-san-francisco","keywords-seattle","keywords-west","keywords-wind","decade-1980s","media-installation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/1418\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}