2011-07-10

The Singing Ringing Tree

Burnley's Panopticon - Singing Ringing Tree



At Crown Point high above the town stands Burnley’s exciting new panopticon the ‘Singing-Ringing Tree’ – a unique musical sculpture in the form of a tree bending against the wind, designed by award-winning architects Tonkin-Liu. As the wind blows it produces a low and mellow hum through pipes which are tuned so that they do not disturb the wildlife.






Singing Ringing Tree (Panopticons) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpturetree set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire.

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Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, the Singing Ringing Tree is a 3 metre tall construction comprising pipes of galvanised steel which harness the energy of the wind to produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves. Some of the pipes are primarily structural and aesthetic elements, while others have been cut across their width enabling the sound. The harmonic and singing qualities of the tree were produced by tuning the pipes according to their length by adding holes to the underside of each.