I haven’t been in Halifax for leisure a long time. The boardwalk seems to have been finished for now, no more cordoned-off parts, everything is there. There are even a handful of new art installations.
Now I am not an artsy guy to begin with, it takes a lot of effort to get me excited about anything art.
But this thing was something else… From a distance, it looks like “nothing”. Not that it isn’t pretty or anything, but I have difficulties understanding what it represents. So I got close to it.
The first thing I see is that it is made of small rectangles of glass/plexiglass that can rotate on a horizontal axis. I’m guessing that the original installation was nice and quiet. But sun, wind and salt from the sea will have changed that pretty quickly.
The result was an eerie sound. With the “naked ear” it was slightly audible, but using the Zoom H6 with the XY capsules gave a very different result…
Have a listen and tell me that this is not a sound qualifying for a Halloween performance…
Until next time…