Culture

New sound experience with the greatest instrument ever created

Lausanne (Switzerland), Sep 23 (EFE).- (Camera: Antonio Broto) A new musical instrument, the largest ever built and reaching 45 meters high, is currently being erected on the campus of the School Lausanne Federal Polytechnic (EPFL), where it is presented as a “sound pavilion” that offers an experience that is both auditory, architectural and scientific, very embedded in the current of contemporary music.FOOTAGE OF THE NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. SOUNDBITES IN FRENCH OF BEAT GYSIN, SWISS COMPOSER.TRANSLATION:1- "What we see here is a really large architectural sculpture, much larger than the largest instrument known so far, an organ is about 10 meters long and this one has. We have joined other instruments such as bells, flutes, trombones to the architectural sculpture, electronic instruments... all united in this structure, which emits sound in all directions. Collect that sound "2- "We did this installation before in Basel and Zurich. In Basel, it was done in the Kunstmuseum, an artistic environment, so many people came to see Klimt, Picasso, and after seeing this sculpture they related it with art. In Zurich, it settled inside a church, and the people who came made a different relationship with this project. Here, in a science environment, people are interested in how it works, its rules, its physiology, the physics of the project ... So the reaction has been very different in Basel, Zurich, or Lausanne. "