VIND, MENNESKER, LYD

Abstract

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.