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Sea Organ - a WONDERFULSOUND Field Recording - Nikola Basic’s Sea Organ at Zadar, Croatia, recorded by The Superimposers’ Miles Copeland

The sounds perfectly preserved on this disc were recorded by Miles Copeland on a visit to Croatia whilst DJing and performing with his band The Superimposers at a music festival on the Adriatic Coast. A friend recommended he make the short journey to the city of Zadar and visit the Sea Organ.

The Sea Organ turned out to be a 70 metre sound installation by architect Nikola Basic, conceived as part of a project to redesign the coast after the devastation Zadar suffered in World War 2. Open to the public in 2005, the Sea Organ is implanted into the marble steps of the harbour walls. It has 35 organ pipes, which are played by the pressure of the tidal waves lapping air through tuned tubes. The resulting sound wholly depends on the character of the sea affected by weather conditions or harbour traffic, whose ripples create random harmonics and musical chords. 7 successive groups of pipes are tuned to 2 musically cognate chords of the diatonic major scale. Tones and chords are played to create the music as heard on this recording.

The end result is a totally random, occasionally aggressive and sometimes soothing performance, which is, of course, played constantly. Miles returned to the giant Sea Organ that weekend numerous times and made these recordings.

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Author: Nikola Bašić, architect Co-author: Ivan Stamac / B. Sc. Eng (sound) Project team: dr. prof. Vladimir Androcec / hydraulics, atelier «HEFERER» / project and instrument tuning. Date of release: 2005

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT: http://www.east-centricarch.eu/projects/sea-organ.html

The city of Zadar, lying on a peninsula, is dubbed «the stone ship» by its citizens. In 2004 the Port Authority, supported by the city government, decided to reconstruct the «prow» of the peninsula to enable the docking of passing cruisers. After the city was devastated in World War II, the chaotic reconstruction shaped that part of the seafront as a nondescript concrete wall. Before the reconstruction, that part was decayed and neglected. The citizens of Zadar, who like to go for a walk on the seafront, rarely went to that spot, although it is the best place to watch the famous Zadar sunset, which Hitchcock said was the most beautiful in the world when he stayed in Zadar in 1964.

The first phase of the project was made in 2005, when the cruiser docking site was reconstructed. The shallower part of the seafront will remain a promenade and includes the sea organ – the biggest musical instrument in the world! The rest of the seafront surface will be arranged in the second construction phase. Its central spot will be the monument to the sun, another symbolic urban installation intended to give character to this important area. The sea organ has the shape of a flight of steps leading to the sea, inducing people to change their walking pattern, to stop and come down to the sea. Under the stone steps, divided into seven 10-meter sections, there are polyethylene tubes of various sizes. The air, pushed by waves, flows from wider to narrower tubes, accelerating and producin sound in the pipes located in the resonating cavity below the promenade, with mystical openings in the stone letting out the sound. The instrument has seven clusters with five selected tones each, derived from the matrix of the traditional Dalmatian a cappella singing. As the energy of the sea is unpredictable in the endless cycles of high and low tide, of the size, force and direction of waves, this eternal concert is always different in its infinite musical variations, composed and played by nature itself.

The sea organ in Zadar is just one of many projects undertaken by this millennial city to have a continuous culture of public space. Along with promoting the development of urban culture, this artistic installation is also an eminent tourist project. This is attested by the fact that the sea organ, immediately after the construction, turned into a metaphorical site visited by delighted citizens, an essential stop in all tourist routes through Zadar and its region.The sea organ won: the 2005 Bernardo Bernardi prize of the Croatian Architects’ Association; Award D!BEST 2006 Dizajncentar Croatia; National building award CEMEX Croatia 2006; European prize of urban public space 2006 / CCCB, Barcelona; Cemex international building award 2006, Monterrey, Mexico.

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Si quieres escuchar el mar, visita Croacia

O al menos, la ciudad de Zadar, porque allí es donde el arquitecto croata  Nikola Basic instaló en 2005 este instrumento musical que “traduce” las olas del mar en sonidos. Morse Orgulje, el órgano majestuoso, está construido mediante canales conectados en 35 tubos unidos a su vez a diferentes cadenas musicales, que suena de una forma u otra dependiendo de la forma en la que las olas impacten contra ellos. Un incentivo más para visitar Croacia, especialmente para los amantes de la música. Puedes escuchar una de las melodías creadas por este órgano que huele a sal.

Imagen | Whathshake

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Sea Organ (Zadar)

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Absolutely mesmerizing piece- Morske Orgulie, or the Sea Organ, by architect Nikola Bašić. Where the waves from the sea crash against the shore of Zadar Croatia, a meditative and harmonic sound is released as the water moves its way up a series of channels that connect to organ pipes, each with its own musical chord. 

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Bašić, Nikola THE SEA ORGAN/GREETINGS TO THE SUN

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 Zadar, The Sun Salutation, Nikola Bašić, 2005

It is constructed from three hundred photo-voltaic glass plates that light up as the sun descends on the horizon, illuminating the night with dancing patterns of lights. The solar energy of the sun powers the project as well as the surrounding waterfront area where it is housed.