Hatondrunk
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"listening ears"
Oct 19, 2004, 20:19
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Hello all MA´s
Just got back from an art exhibition today and one of the features were about sound mirrors. Amazing, even if they´ll soon disintegrate. From the catalog:
"Standing silent and abandoned, a series of isolated and mysterious concrete structures line the south east coast of England. The history of the sound mirrors is a story of research trial and error that left a legacy of enigmatic, monolithic ruins, suggestive of previous civilisations and strange practices."
http://www.soundmirrors.org/
http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/mirrors/
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Hob
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Re: "listening ears"
Oct 19, 2004, 23:21
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I remember seeing those on the box. Absolutely barmy looking things. I'd vaguely heard someone was planning to use them as part of a soundbouncing arty/installation thing. looks interesting.
I know they ain't old, but they did seem to have a monolithic presence. Now if they'd made them out of stone, not concrete, they might have still been there thousands of years time from now, and future antiquarian types* could ponder the connection with the ancient stuff we look at today.
* I'm assuming that civilisation will have gone up and down a bit by then, so that current archaeological records will seem as mysterious as the dead sea scrolls. Or summat.
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