the 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 al pole would have a kind of morse code of sound sequences which conveyed you will message across the valley today it's soothing tones that just use music and we've been to the biggest festival in the world in of course switzerland. switzerland has amazing mountain panoramas. breathtaking nature. and a musical national symbol. out. and in each thousands of album alone fans gather in the swiss town of neda to celebrate

these 3 in a meet in a long instrument. from belgium for all the flemish part i am from holland for my just are in the u.k. getting the most actually i'm from germany and we like hearing the outlaw and that's why we come here as i point to be and when this happened you know. 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 r. players are trying to move away from the 4th floor element and are playing in more for jazz direction or in chromatic pitch to the extent that's possible.

so say this middle 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. 2 is that it's like if you imagine a trumpet without. we are like limits of course. for a while it was like really as i said before it was going to relay but now it's like making really a comeback. and they get that no it's really cool again it's really trendy. lots of our own players means lots of our plans 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 spruce past 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 don't for we call it tone but it's 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 on. and the sound of the.

once. 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 about 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 stunning light installation titled deep way comprised of laser beams pointing to several nods it's the work of artists christopher bauder and composer robert payne kept. does it divide us and our idea was to bridge

realize this vast data stream but without getting all scientific reasons we were free associating the times. as fire. the 10 meter tall insulation covers an impressive 600 square meters in berlin's craft the venue the artist deliberately picked this school in 1960 is power station to showcase the work i discussed 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 we go and invent . stuff about it isn't managed by tonight and has created many fascinating digital spaces and dreamscapes in taiwan paris mexico and the chinese capital beijing.

has 2014 installation leaks screens up in newman asia board made major headlines on the 25th anniversary of the phone with the berlin wall together with his brother mark christopher placed 800 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 light installations content in the google no doubt everyone knows lightbulb. 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 unveiled 3 years ago kristof about the device an elaborate system of 175 motor powered can make to

12 high powered laces they are attached to the exhibition the ceiling. of blade runner or something kind of post apocalyptic only. it is this amazing. creamy and smiley tater relaxing i want to leave. these in lock visitors get to stay on as long as they wish because the installation is on a continuous there. 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 academy of music and 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 the. there was a time to get them all to hear that mimics a snare drum. there is d.c. motor that makes the bass drum. there is a time in the 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. of the machines produced a rhythm and he composes 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 our slope 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

. here 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 i started making them had a very difficult period in my life. so i found this kind of therapy where i skate and. and it saved me at that moment so. 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 possible for building the machine so i will. make

a space you know find stuff in the drawer find stuff in there. use. the requests from collectors are becoming increasingly frequent. he currently has 3 commissions for beat machines. i really want this to be my job today right i want to i want to build and strange instruments and play them that's the best job in the world. he's also planning to release upbeat machines album and has already performed on the big stage. at his peak machines will play at the beethoven festival in september. they did look cool and that concert is on the 27th of september of a home fest i want to have made of those machines we will never. that's it for this

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