Found a new sculpture/installation in our City Park today. Well - new to me, anyway! But then I have not been passing by that corner of the park for at least five months...
As odd as the thing looks, it sounds even odder. Yes - getting up to closer to it, one can also hear it kind of singing, or humming.
Back home, I tried to seek some info about it, and Google AI obliged. It seems I missed what our local newspaper wrote about it back in early December last year, when it was inaugurated.
It's official title is Currents Cast in Time: Collected Sounds of Borås, and the name of the artist/musician who created it is Jin Mustafa (female, born 1988 in Uppsala, Sweden). The work of art was made specifically for this place. It's made of aluminium and fiberglass, and the sound it gives off is a mix of city sounds recorded along the river. It also lights up from within in the dark - and you're welcome to sit on it and rest for a while, if you like. (I did not, on this occasion.)
A variety of this work of art (in the shape of some "singing stones") was first shown at our sculpture biennial in the summer of 2021. But it had to be reconstructed to meet the demands of a more permanent installation.
You can see and and listen to the 2021 version in a blog post of mine from back then:
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