Open AccessVIND, MENNESKER, LYD
Author(s) -
Bror Westman
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2596-5425
pISSN - 0906-3021
DOI - 10.7146/ta.v0i54.106744
Subject(s) - relation (database) , sight , sound (geography) , usable , mythology , power (physics) , sculpture , guitar , visual arts , aesthetics , computer science , art , literature , acoustics , multimedia , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , database
Sound has a special power, for it is both outside and inside the human being. Manipulation
of this power of sound in relation to sight, image and things plays an important role in
the use of three different instruments: the bullroarer, the aeolean harp and the aeolean
organ, all of which have an intimate relation to the wind. The bullroarer is a useful
starting point for cross-cultural thinking. Mythology helps to express the relations of
power in society, especially as crystallized in the bullroarer, which dramatizes the relation
between sight and sound. Each instrument has its own physical possibilities that make
it usable in society. Initiation rites, philosophy and spirit travel are all connected through
recognition of the wind’s power. In recent times artists are working to combine sound
and image by electronics, video, sculpture and -in my case – the wind.