Wind Chime Tree, City Park, New Orleans, LA - Religion in Louisiana (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
“The Singing Oak” is an art installation produced by Jim Hart. It is located in City Park, New Orleans. According to the artist’s statement: “The Singing Oak is simply a one hundred year old beautiful oak tree with an array of wind chimes hanging from its limbs, all tuned to play together in harmony…The music of The Singing Oak emerges from the interaction between natural forces and human imagination. It demonstrates the harmony between nature and man in a way that is soothing and melodic to the human ear. The balance between the natural beauty of the oak itself and the song it emits, is not diminished by the hidden presence of the chimes making the sound…It is the scale of the melody to 'Amazing Grace,' and many other songs interwoven in the musical history of New Orleans. Tuned to the major pentatonic scale, the wind-generated music of The Singing Oak is reminiscent of the tuning and organic spontaneity of jazz and many traditional Louisiana songs.”