{"id":7565,"date":"2017-11-03T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2017-11-03T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:46","slug":"singing-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=7565","title":{"rendered":"Singing Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes I read something about people I have never heard of before and I spontaneously think: wouldn’t it be cool to meet that person? This was certainly true when I encountered the article below, describing Lotte Geeven, a Dutch artist who is passionate about making a concert out of samples of singing sand collected from around the world. The idea alone is ingenious – focussing an audience’s attention on sound that is natural by source (and rare) but now delivered in manufactured fashion – however she plans to do that.\"\"<\/p>\n

The preparation for such an undertaking involves figuring out where these sands can be found, how people can be approached to send them, and of course how to re-create the sound once the sand is in your possession.<\/p>\n

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If you click on the short video embedded in the article you can see the process first hand – how she writes to strangers, how they respond, how so much depends on simple kindness and willingness to do the unusual for the sake of art.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/artist-crowdsourcing-sand-around-world-recreate-sound-singing-deserts-180966966\/<\/a><\/p>\n

For the mechanically inclined, here are some sketches of her “instruments.”\"\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/394661\/lotte-geeven-sand-machines\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a sound sample from our own “backyard,” sand dunes in Death Valley who sing during the summer (at 118 degrees…)<\/p>\n