Sound and Resonance at Power Places

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Comment by Skye Løfvander on March 30, 2013 at 12:16pm

http://www.tanksounds.org/

THE TANK is an acoustical marvel, a senses-altering experience found nowhere else on earth. A 60' tall, 30' across rusted steel water tank - never used - was discovered in Colorado by sound artist and sonic thinker ​Bruce Odland in 1976. A small group of musicians has been recording there ever since.

THE TANK is a sonic wonder of the world, with a shifting, swirling reverberation longer and richer than the Taj Majal or the Great Pyramid. Sitting unnoticed in the dirt hills outside Rangely, Colorado — surrounded by oil pumps and dirt bike trails — the profound acoustic beauty within is balanced by the austerity of its remote location and its simple industrial architecture.

Comment by Skye Løfvander on March 24, 2013 at 9:12am

Chavín de Huántar

http://www.psmag.com/culture/mescaline-music-terror-42603/

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/330/

Comment by Skye Løfvander on March 8, 2013 at 2:04pm

The UK's five weirdest sounding places

- St Paul's Cathedral Whispering Gallery, London (video below)
- Wormit water reservoir, Dundee
- Greenwich foot tunnel in London
- Bitterns at Ham Wall, near Glastonbury
- Anechoic chambers around the UK (check out this link as well!)

Comment by Skye Løfvander on November 16, 2012 at 12:44pm

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/60229544
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galluskapelle_Winterberg

Comment by Ellen Berg on November 16, 2012 at 6:11am

This is a live- recording from the circle in the Gallus-Kapelle Leutkirch/tautenhofen im Allgäu- Germany. Very powerfull place with an amazing view all around. i like to recommend you to this small chappel. one can find rest, peace, energy and loving care.the accoustic is amazing and can bring some to higher level beeing in touch with selfhealing process. this place gives something to me like to be asured evryting comes my way is perfectly right and lovely. so i agree and accept. just say yes.

Comment by Skye Løfvander on November 4, 2012 at 3:54pm

WIKIPEDIA (excerpt):
The Ear of Dionysius (Italian: Orecchio di Dionisio) is an artificial limestone cave carved out of the Temenites hill in the city of Syracuse, on the island of Sicily in Italy. Its name comes from its similarity in shape to the human ear.
The Ear of Dionysius was most likely formed out of an old limestone quarry. It is 23 metres high and extends 65 metres back into the cliff. Horizontally, it bends in an approximate "S" shape, vertically it is tapered at the top like a teardrop. Because of its shape the Ear has extremely good acoustics, making even a small sound resonate throughout the cave.

Comment by Skye Løfvander on June 13, 2012 at 3:04pm

OMN member Peter Govan has arranged a 'sacred sound' event including overtone singing in the remarkable acoustic space of Hamilton Mausoleom.
You may listen to a recording of his singing here:
http://www.myspace.com/petergovan/music/songs/return-of-the-sun-liv...

Wikipedia about the Hamilton Mausoleom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Mausoleum

Comment by Skye Løfvander on July 19, 2011 at 6:08pm

Millions of tourists visit the leaning and tower of Pisa and most of them also find time to see the baptistery which is part of the same ecclesiastical complex. Every half hour they have the chance to listen to a demonstration of the amazing acoustic properties, when a ticket vendor or guard sings a standard line of chords in one voice. They could probably have found better singers but the effect of the long reverb is extraordinary and makes it possible to sing a three-note-chord even without being an overtone singer.

Comment by Skye Løfvander on May 31, 2011 at 11:35am

Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Fünf-Finger-Turm Wasserreservoir

The video gives you an impression of this impressive acoustic space. The quality of both image and sound is unfortunately very poor. On the other hand what is heard is a performance of the ground breaking overtone composition Stimmung (1968) by K. H. Stockhausen (1928-2007).

Comment by Skye Løfvander on May 25, 2011 at 8:32pm

@Charly Wintermeyer:
Ich habe jetzt eine marke auf die karte bei Vang Vieng eingeführt. Es gibt auch ein link für ein von die videos.

I have placed a marker at the village of Vang Vieng, Laos, seven kilometers from the Tham Pou Kham cave. There is also a link to one of the videos shot by Charly Wintermeyer in the cave. You may find three more videos at his profile page here on OMN

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