music making machine. if you live in a mountainous region like the alps and you need to speak to a friend living on the next peak nowadays you just pick up the fun back in the day though you had to travel right down into the valley and then up the next mountain all you could blow your horn the alp hold out a kind of morse code of sound sequences which conveyed you will message across the valley today it's soothing tones and just use music and we've been to the biggest outpolled festival in the world in of course switzerland. switzerland has amazing mountain panoramas. breathtaking nature. and a musical national symbol of our own. and . thousands of album moon fans gather in the swiss town of name down to celebrate

these 3 in a meet in a long instrument. from belgium for all the flemish part i'm from holland for manchester in the u.k. getting the most action and i'm from germany and we like hearing the outlaw and that's why we come here as i point to be when this happened near now. there are some full 1000 active album players in switzerland the country's largest alpine festival here in asia has gathered some 150 players from around the world most of them are over 50 years old but there are younger musicians with a love for the unusual instrument. for. one seems to be a developing trance us at various young our players are trying to move away from the full grown element and are playing in more for just a rection or an chromatic pitch to the extent that's possible.

toward larger being something that's mostly his. horn has a range that's known as the harmonic series $12.00 to $16.00 tons can be played per instrument that's enough for contemporary music which these 3 called the alpine systems can do especially well. it's not possible to play everything of course but the style of so that it's like if you imagine a trumpet without the valves we are like limits of forces. for a while it was like really as i said before it was going to relay but now it's like making really a come back. and they get that no it's really cool again it's really trendy. thoughts about how one play is means lots of outlines there are some 40 people in switzerland to make the instruments one of them is francois morris song it takes

him 2 weeks to make one album and he can produce around 20 year but 1st the wood from the swiss through some pasta each for 5 to 8 years. we pick our trees as growing and poor soil which means that it grows very slowly there is little soil but lots of stones which means as a tree doesn't grow very tall. that's what we look for we call it tone which is the same what we use to make violins guitars and similar musical instruments. the minute and the surrounding region also keep other local traditions alive such as whip cracking and ringing enormous cowbells. but the highlight is when 150. played together. that will surely also be the case next year when the festival is held in the sudden swiss count. and the sound of the

trip sounds. great stuff web refers to the part of the world wide web that can't be found when looking with normal search engines it's also the name of a multimedia audiovisual like installation by the burden by artist christopher. which is currently to be seen here in an old power station he needed a big space to show his vision with light and music of what he thinks the internet looks like. is this what the internet would look like if we were to visualize it like this standing light installation titled deep way comprised of laser beams pointing to several nods it's the work of asha's christopher bowed and composer robert and kept . busy divide us with our idea was to bridge realize

this vast data stream but without getting all scientific we were free associating the times and for. the 10 meter tall installation covers an impressive 600 square meters in berlin's craft the venue the artist deliberately picked to school in 1960 is power station to showcase their work. this cough that not the power station is like an industrial cathedral zante is making it something completely different to a simple black exhibition space in which case everyone's attention would be focused only on the installation but here the light reflects off the walls. christof about it is inanimate night and has created many fascinating digital spaces and dreamscapes in taiwan paris mexico and the chinese capital beijing.

is 2014 installation each screens up in him an ancient border made major headlines on the 25th anniversary of the fall look the berlin wall together with his brother mark christopher placed $800.00 glowing balloons along the route of the former from tia. christopher about it even founded a design studio where he and 30 colleagues brainstorm and develop ideas for new lighting installations content in the bill will no doubt everyone knows light bulbs . strip lights and rays of light they can be combined to create complex 3 dimensional sculptures or be set in motion i'm fascinated by shaping something that is intangible really. installation which was on bail 3 years ago christopher about a. system of 175 motor powered can make to 12 high

powered laces they are attached to the exhibition. or something kind of post apocalyptic. is this amazing. dreamy and relaxing i want to leave. and lock visitors get to stay on as long as they wish because the installation is on a continuous thing. recently on arts and culture we talked about the future of music and here is a composer and inventor looking to the future doing a ph d. at the norwegian a can of. georgian musician. built his own instrument and

called it beat machine number one it went viral on social media and since then he says himself that he's become a bit obsessed and spends too much time too much of his time developing his beat machines that's great for us because now he gives concerts with them. there is a time. there is. the bass drum. there is a tiny little step of all to hear that spins against a small spring. and that basically mimics high had. made his 1st beat machine in 2016 and it used a crank handle. since

then he has further developed his invention. the machines produced a rhythm and he composed his melodies on the computer. his beat machine number 3 made from old soda bottles and table tennis balls has been displayed at the museum for pop music in oslo since 2017 i'm super excited about making small sounds really really big when you can take a tiny little spring and put it on top of a contact microphone and they can play that spring i think an amplified so that it becomes take it so that the stadium starts to jump. somehow feels great. a lot so i was born in georgia but today he lives in norway's capital

are slow he originally trained as a violinist and a conductor but now makes a living composing for ensembles and orchestras at 1st the beat machines were just a distraction and started making them i had a very difficult period in my life. so i found this kind of therapy where i skate and. you know and it and it definitely did save me that moment. so addictive. he spends weeks making a beat machine working in a shared studio called a maker space for inventors can share their technological know how with each other . he also has access to materials here. i try to not like. as.

you know. find stuff in the. news. now requests from collectors are becoming increasingly frequent. he currently has 3 commissions for the machines. to be. right i want to i want to build weird and strange play them that's the best job in the world. he's also planning to release upbeat machines and has already performed on the big stage. at his peak machines will play at the beethoven festival in poland in september. 27th of september. i wonder what would have made of those machines never.

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