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A Sound Installation Makes it Rain Without Water
A Sound Installation Makes it Rain Without Water
Artist, designer, and techno musician Kouichi Okamoto is exhibiting his latest work of sound art, an installation called Re-Rain, at the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art in Shizuoka City, Japan.
Re-rain proposes a way for the immaterial forces of sound, gravity, and magnetic force to find a physical form. In the installation, each of 15 umbrellas shelter a speaker, from which plays pre-recorded sound samples of rain hitting the top of an umbrella. The sound hits the umbrellas from below, so as the sound waves reflect, the noise is altered.
The piece literally inverts the way the sound hits the object—taking the noise of a physical raindrop hitting an umbrella, and turning it into a sound that interacts with the umbrella only through sound waves. As the speakers play the samples, the umbrellas not only alter the sound, but they themselves vibrate from the force of the speakers attached to them, further shaping sound of the original sample.
Source : https://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/rain-sound-installation-umbrellas