Croatia’s Strangely Beautiful ‘Sea Organ’

Posted by Mike Richard on April 7, 2008
Filed under: Croatia, Music, Sidelines

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Not unlike the U.K.’s Singing Ringing Tree, this sea organ in Zadar, Croatia is an experimental, public art and architectural installation.

Sea Organ

Mounted below a series of large marble steps, ocean waves push air through thirty-five perfectly tuned sound tubes creating random, but oddly beautiful “music”. Well … I think so at least.

Sort of reminiscent of an Australian derigidoo.

There’s even CDs available at the website above.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

Janelle
April 7th, 2008 - 3:40 pm

My colleague Marilyn came across the wave organs while visiting Croatia last year, and was happy to find a video of their music on Nat Geo’s website as well:

http://intelligenttravel.typep.....r-tra.html

I think they’re pretty amazing really.


Sophie
April 8th, 2008 - 11:16 am

Very beautiful! To my ear, it’s much lovelier than the didgeridoo, which make my brain rattle.


xXxJuNxXx
July 22nd, 2008 - 3:09 pm

it makes such wonderful sounds…i just love it over there…