http://www.ciel-libre.nnx.com/music/

I attempted to make some windhooters… but they did not produce sound as clearly as these ones do… I did not make the gaps to the right specs as the tutorial I followed said it wasn’t hugely important, however mine are inaudibly quiet because I didn’t make the openings narrow enough and some of the bottles I had to spare weren’t the right shape to make loud chamber. So I am hoping to attempt this again.

I am thinking about the ocean. Over my DPS year, I was hoping to record a documentary about sewage pollution and southern water as I was swimming during Lockdowns when they first starting dumping sewage without informing people in the middle of summer… I started recording near water treatment plants, but I couldn’t get inside. I was then thinking about recording the Ocean, but I wasn’t interested in being a presenter in this documentary, and the subject would need explanation as when recording the Ocean you can’t hear pollution, just like you can’t see it. You can’t see the microbes from fecal matter and waste or the microplastics being eaten by aquatic life. I was thinking about windhooters as a way to encroach a plastic sound of human origin as a means to signify this pollution in some recordings of the ocean. Creating some kind of Aeolian instrument out of plastics felt like an interesting juxtaposition against the seascape. This was not entirely successful.

If the effect was slightly louder I’d be interested in exploring further. I’ve ordered bits for contact microphones and will maybe try later in the year to get some microphones built and potentially attach piezos to the inside of these wind-hooters to see if the sound is improved.