Music of the wind: a modular Aeolian harp

video upload by Electrum Modular

"Combine a modular synth with a wind gauge and you get what we might call an electro-aerophone: an electronic instrument that can transform the wind into music … and, in the process, reconnect us to our environment.

On this second trip to the park, I simulate an Aeolian harp with the help of an eight-band, resonating filter bank, a comparator, and an addressable sequential switch.

Previous episode (modular wind chime): • chiming with the breeze: wind as control v... [posted here]

My new album: https://smallchanges1.bandcamp.com/al...

Readings quoted:
Timothy Morton, “Of Matter and Meter: Environmental Form in Coleridge’s ‘Effusion 35’ and ‘The Eolian Harp,’” Literature Compass 5, no. 2 (2008): 310-335
Douglas Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts (University of California Press, 2013)
R. Selfridge, D. Moffat, E. J. Avital and J. D. Reiss, “Creating Real-Time Aeroacoustic Sound Effects Using Physically Informed Models,” J. Audio Eng. Soc. 66, no. 7/8 (2018): 594-607

Credits (in order of appearance; all in public domain):
Aeolian harp recording in first 2 minutes of the video, recorded by Chris Vaisvil: https://freesound.org/people/vaisvil/...
“Aeolian Harps and How to Make Them,” Boy’s Own Paper (1883)
Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia Universalis, sive Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni ("The Universal Musical Art, or the Great Art of Consonance and Dissonance") (1650)
Aeolian Harp (British), 19th century (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Aeolian Harp (American, Boston), 1906 (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
George Dawe, Genevieve (from a poem by S.T. Coleridge entitled 'Love'), oil on canvas, 1812 (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ob...
Henri Fantin-Latour, Lélio: The Aeolian Harp, lithograph, 1888 (Cleveland Museum of Art)
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1921.5
Thoreau’s Aeolian harp, Concord Museum; Dickinson’s, Emily Dickinson Museum"