Singing Ringing Tree (Panopticons)

53.761777777778 - 2.2413611111111Koordinaten: 53 ° 45 '42 " N, 2 ° 14' 29" W

The Singing Ringing Tree (English for The Singing Ringing Tree after the eponymous fairy tale ) is a musical or music-making sculpture in the landscape of the Pennines with a view of Burnley in Lancashire in England. The sculpture was unveiled on 14 December 2006 by the mayor of Burnley, Councillor Mohammad Najib, and the designer Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu. It is an object of the Environment Art in which it comes to the relationship between the artwork and its surroundings in the first place.

Concept

The sculpture was completed in 2006 and is part of a series of four sculptures within the panopticon - art - and - regeneration project of the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network ( East Lancashire Environment - art - network). Panopticon are sculptures that can be seen from a great distance still to be so built on geographical surveys. They are symbols of the renaissance of this scattered across eastern Lancashire areas in which they are located, and thus its modern attractions of the 21st century.

Design and construction

The Singing Ringing Tree was designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu and constructed of tubes made ​​of galvanized steel, which cut and focus the energy of the continuously across the open waving wind, so that they produce slightly discordant and penetrating choral sounds on a range of several octaves based. The tubes remember so its kind of organ pipes. Some of the tubes are merely structural and aesthetic elements, while others were cut lengthwise so as to allow the sound. The harmonic and singing qualities of the tree sculpture were achieved in that you ordered the tubes according to their size and they agreed on the bottom by adding holes.

Awards

In 2007 won the sculpture next to 13 other candidates to the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ) for architectural excellence elle.