The Singing Ringing Tree - England

Perhaps you've all seen this before since it was a youtube video from 2007...but this was my first visual & hearing experience...FANTASTIC !!! 
Have any of you bee out there to see it in person?

4EVER2 wrote:Perhaps you've all seen this before since it was a youtube video from 2007...but this was my first visual & hearing experience...FANTASTIC !!! 
Have any of you bee out there to see it in person?

That's not too far from me. I might go visit this weekend.

At the first part of the video there's a notation and view of some important event that took place up on that peak --- any information and reason for this fabulous thing to be erected would be greatly appreciated.

Wow. Never even heard of it!!

That is very cool.



A 3-meter-tall, wind-powered musical sculpture made of galvanized steel pipes, it stands high above the English town of Burnley. The pipes swirl to form the shape of a tree bent and blown by the wind, and produce an eerie, melodious hum as the constant wind on Crown Point drifts through them.

The Singing Ringing Tree's pipes are used for both aesthetic qualities as well as for tuning, with their sound varied according to length and added narrow slits on the underside of specific pipes. The sound produced by these twisted metal trees covers several octaves and is said to be simultaneously discordant and melancholy, and intensely beautiful.

Completed in 2006, the Tree was designed by award-winning architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu as part of a project created by the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network to build a series of landmarks over the countryside. The site at Burnley was once that of a re-diffusion transmission station, complete with a run-down brick building and unused telegraph lines. The station was dismantled and the lines cut down to be recycled, to make way for the Tree that was to stand out against the stark, rolling landscape of the Pennine mountain range.

The Tree is one of four "panopticons" scattered throughout Lancashire. The chosen panopticons (a term coined by late 19th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham meaning "a space or device providing a panoramic view") include the Tree; The Atom of Pendle, designed by Peter Meacock and Katarina Novomestska; the Colourfields in Blackburn, designed by Jo Rippon Architecture and artist Sophie Smallhorn; and the Haslingden Halo, designed by LandLab architect John Kennedy.

In addition to the name describing exactly what it is, its nomenclature is also a nod to the 1960s/early-1970s BBC television series of the same name. The rather uncanny noises extracted from the pipes seem to match the mood of the TV series.

Described as one of the world's weirdest and creepiest shows for children, the Singing Ringing Tree was an East Germany import program that followed a princess, her prince, a six-foot-tall dwarf, and myriad talking, magical creatures. Done in a Brother's Grimm style, it became a cult classic that both terrified and obsessed a generation of British children.

Originally a feature film, it was divided and aired as a 3-part television mini-series which was voted in 2004 by a Radio Times poll as the "20th spookiest TV show ever."

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/singing-ringing-tree

WOW...more than one of those were built...fantastic.  TY for the info, Quill.  There are several bluffs around this area and with our state listed as #5 windiest, well there'd be quite enough sustainable breeze for such an art object. 
I'd love to have a lawn chair, some cold brews and just sit and listen to the sounds~~~

If we had these in most built up areas, it would be a more chilled-out experience of the hustle and bustle of life.

4EVER2 wrote:FROM THIS image taken when the well was first
drilled Circa 1965 >>>

TO THIS and what it has built up too >>>

 The fly geyser in Nevada started out as an attempt to create a well but the drillers got much more than they bargained for when they were faced with scalding hot water. After the operations were abandoned, a beautiful monument created by nature was formed and it has taken on a life of its own, continuously growing and changing. The mineral rich water has created a mountain of colorful formations that have stunned the world.
http://www.sliptalk.com/fly-geyser-in-nevada/?utm_source=soed&ts_pid=2&ts_pid=2

It looks like Jabba the Hut

eddie wrote:If we had these in most built up areas, it would be a more chilled-out experience of the hustle and bustle of life.

That would actually drive you nuts if you had to listen to it day and night.

HoratioTarr wrote:

eddie wrote:If we had these in most built up areas, it would be a more chilled-out experience of the hustle and bustle of life.

 That would actually drive you nuts if you had to listen to it day and night.

I like the sound of those great big wooden wind chimes you can get though.

So do I