Magnify Nature and Listen Inside
Photo via flickr by Steve took it
I decided to go out and see what are the rhythms and the melodies that are emanating from our landscape? What is its wavelength? What is its rhythmic structure? And I didn’t know it then, but what I was exploring was fractal rhythms and melodies; the kind of sounds and rhythms and melodies that nature made. I’m very interested in real time and what’s going on right at the moment, and how you can change its resonance so that it becomes observable – how you can take in a fractal flow like water and rhythms, if you can find a very pure element to put in, a single overtone series to be activated, for instance by a probe, then the water is basically playing the violin.
—Bruce Odland, Composer, Sound Artist, from a conversation with Sputnik Observatory