337 Editorial 338–339 Frontispiece 337–352 Update: Triple Instruments 338–352 Sound Around the World 346–347 Blizzard & Dragons 348–349 The Loneliness of the Microphone 350–352 Interview

n° 13 wind tunnel bulletin n° 13, june 2021 338, 339 342, 343 The high art of flying in Asia goes back centu- ries, if not millennia. Many of these traditional kites 1 2 12 13 14 16 17 are also musical instruments, and articulate the 15 wind in sounds. This issue of our bulletin is dedicat- 3 21 ed to sound kites, which we juxtapose with the 19 th 18 silent European box kites of the late 19 century 4 20 and our present-day further development : Triple Instruments, in which not only the kite sounds but also the string on which it flies and the ground -in http://www.zhdk.ch/en/fspt http://windtunnelbulletin.zhdk.ch If not mentioned otherwise 2021 2.00) (CC BY-NC Bulletin n° 13 Wind Tunnel Focus in Research at Zurich Transdisciplinarity of the Arts University Bulletin Wind Tunnel ISSN 2673-3498 (Print) ISSN 2673-348X (Online) 1 Kleng Ek, Cambodia; http://english.cambodiadaily. 12 Edo Kaku-dako, Japan; https://www.my-best-kite.com/ strument through which its line is passed. Together com/news/kite-enthusiasts-gather-for-annual-festi- asian-kites.html with Patrick Müller, we reflect on such music-mak- -

val-51004/ 13 (Lindenberger Normaldrachen, Germany), 2 A Kite-flying Contest by Utagawa Yoshitora, 1865; 1908; https://www.monumente-online.de/de/ausga- ing with a natural player and print the first draft of a http://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc170754 ben.backup/2011/2/entdeckungen-in-freier-atmo- piece of sonic fiction by Antoine Chessex ; a new 3 Cody’s Bat Kite in military testing, Great Britain; http:// sphaere.php fly.historicwings.com/2013/03/high-upon-a-kite/ 14 Edo Kaku-dako, Japan; https://www.drachenforum. genre through which he seeks to promote listening 4 Janggan, Indonesia; http://baligatesofheaven.blogs- net/thread/81065-edo/?s=5dba9edfbaa11f30505e- through language. But that’s not all: while reading, pot.com/2021/01/bali-kite-flying-festival.html 14b45303e2a509f1a427 15 Edo Kaku-dako, Japan; source unknown you can listen to a radio program that Fabian 16 Bebean, Indonesia; https://www.deviantart.com/bytha/ Gutscher has composed especially for this issue 340, 341 art/Bebean-Kite-251997993 17 Box Kite, Germany, 1905; https://rcccm.dwd.de/DE/ and that can be synchronized with the print edition. 5 6 7 8 forschung/atmosphaerenbeob/lindenbergersaeule/ (Just scan the QR Code below or go to worldwide- mol/historie_node.html 18 Triple Instrumentsin Venice, 2019 their for owners thank all copyright We their kind permission to reproduce exhaustive material. Should, despite our person entitled any to rights research, legitimate been claims overlooked, have shall be compensated within the usu al provisions. wind.org). Follow the sound of turning pages or sim-

19 Box Kite, in front Samuel Franklin Cody, aeronautical - ply your own curiosity. Open your ears and ahoy! 10 pioneer and wild west showman; from David Pelham,

1976: Kites. London: Penguin, p. 50 11 Sculpt 20 Triple Instrumentsin Venice, 2019 Florian Dombois, Fabian Gutscher, 9 21 Cody’s Bat Kite, Great Britain; https://www.fotomuse-

um.ch/de/situations-post/michael-kempf/ in Venice, Krispin Heé and Mirjam Steiner

344, 345 5 Wau Dodo Helang, Malaysia; https://www.gettyimages. : Various sources, see sources, : Various in/photos/kelantan-kite?phrase=kelantan%20ki- 100. p. Elmtree, , London: 22 23 24 26 27 : Kite using photos and quote te&sort=mostpopular Triple Instruments Triple : Drawing and concept by Florian Florian and concept by : Drawing 6 Koryu-semi, Japan; https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/ : detail.php?id=1870 28 Images : Cover 7 , Bermuda; https://kalinko.com/blogs/ 25 27.4.2019 337 P. 2018 Dombois, 338–352 P. individual captions Giveaway 1978: Kites. Tsutomu, Hiroi, from ing the Sky yangon-post/kalinko-living-easter-around-the-world 32

8 Triple Instrumentsin Venice, 2019; https://blog.zhdk. : 30 ch/windkanal/2019/04/27/sound-kite-orchest- 29 31 ra-in-venedig/ 9 Koryu-semi by Satoshi Hashimoto, Japan; https://www. nationalkitemonth.org/kites-from-around-the-world/ 10 Steiff’s Roloplan arch, also inventor of the Teddy Bear; from Walter Diem, 2008: Der Drachendesigner 22 Cody’s Bat Kite, Great Britain; http://avstop.com/news/ Richard Steiff. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, p. 15 cody2.html 11 Bell’s Circular Kite, Canada; https://www.scientifica- 23 Kleng Ek, Cambodia; http://www.windmusik.com/html/ merican.com/article/alexander-graham-bell-goes- ek.htm and-flies-a-kite-for-science/ 24 Pecukan, Indonesia; source unknown 25 Dieu Sao, Vietnam; https://www.youtube.com/watch?- v=MPUG_i6XW7g

26 Dieu Sao, Vietnam; https://urbanisthanoi.com/hanoi- : Design Viola Zimmermann editing and translations English copy Mark Kyburz culture/12894-at-a-thousand-year-old-flute-kite-fes- tival-in-northern-vietnam,-melodies-and-prayers- cross-the-sky

27 Dieu Sao, Vietnam; http://www.windmusik.com/html/ caisao.htm 28 Dieu Sao, Vietnam; source unknown 29 Kleng Ek, Cambodia; https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/

multimedia/2015/11/151112_galeri_kamboja : 30 Dieu Sao, Vietnam; http://thegioidisan.vn/vi/thu-choi- dieu-dai-cua-nguoi-lang-cao-hai.html 31 Janggan, Indonesia; source unknown 32 Triple Instrumentsin Venice, 2019 Imprint Bulletin is published by The Wind Tunnel Focus in Transdisciplinarity the Research of the Arts. University at Zurich of issue n° 13 Editors Gutscher, Fabian Florian Dombois, Mirjam Steiner Heé, Krispin Contributors: Müller Patrick Antoine Chessex, 338, 339 Frontispiece lies thethreeelements oftheperformance.lies upper too, remains vibrates,though, It, inaudible:TheEarth. andsings. oscillates, Coming upthrough theactual of the yourEarth under resonance feet, eachother:You,ence theplayer, are Ifyou else, Something oneofthem. wearheadphones, you intothesubtlety ofeachelement. can heardeeply Instruments ly, break itdoesn’t so theresonant circuit earth andsky, between directions. inboth asitpasses thesound blocking screw tothe attached terminalandpassitthroughthen tightenthestringwithasmall loop themonochord’s Butmake sure thisneck. can move free instrument asakitestring, thestring’s youshouldharness some powerin way. 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Allofwhichare transmitted upward tothekite, sent then Thisprovidesto theearth. you ofthe sounds make, anecho your pluck wind inallitsnuances. thehummer’s Ithowlsinthewind, sending noise Thisstringallows thesense again. you to the vibrations asthey passthrough thestringfrombottom andback topto even tennisstringswilldo. Above all, avoid any of muting ordampening vibrate freely. Two gutstringorpianowire. idealmaterialswould be But transmitting line, soul of forms the connecting A string Thestring,the and Triple Instruments . It must be ableto. Itmust - your head. You whomyou decide wishtoplay with. their ancestors. As for whom you, you hear in thewind aboveyou choose thetic reasons andfor religious ones, inorder andto tolistenthegods andelsewhere for —both aes Bermuda, inMalaysia, China, centuries sounds it makes.and to listen back to the Kite flyers have done this for string toearth. sonorousYou thehummer tolendthewinda can use voice The buzzingistransmitted tothekite’s andfrombody there downthe quite adifferentset oftones. Try out correspondforms that tothewind. high tones. You from can hangtheribbon also threads, whichcan produce of hummer. kind starts tovibrate in thewind. Long arcs tones, produce deep shortones some of and string, wide, stretched flatacross Theribbon an or carbon. arc ofbamboo,wood, the of weight from 5to 15 millimeters about ofa lengthof ribbon, A hummerconsists the carry to enough akite.become is for Allyoube strong thekitetoflywelland need native orforeign: Give your imaginationfree rein. Even araincoat can that is, theform tooffer you thewind. choose Traditional or avant-garde, of kite. you Decidewhichshape want travelling upward on your string, A kiteYou canany use shape, any kind - 340, 341 kite-lines). For kite construction in Switzerland, Thomas Horvath must be mentioned, whose Forwhose inSwitzerland, ThomasHorvath kiteconstruction be mentioned, must kite-lines). builders), of the or magazine in old issues Drachen Foundation dox, Otherinterestingbe materials can windmusik.com. onlinesourcekites: found at onsound struments. Oneoftheauthors, Uli Wahl, isincharge ofthemost extensive, somewhat unortho if we wouldlike ofwindin to theconstruction tomention[Ferment etal.2008],whichis dedicated als. Inthe Plan Base cal today.source online important among Themost for kitemodels a profound overview and their flight characteristics kite models of the common that is stilltopi is A classic among kitebooks theWorld Around Kites Sound (kiteplans.org), whichhaslargely manu kiteconstruction replacedprinted thecountless Kite PlanBase (drachen.org), the , however, there are noinstructions andtherefore soundkites forbuilding Kites by theartistandart director David Pelham[1976], whichgives American Kitefliers Association Kitefliers American KiteLines KiteLines (.com/magazine-archive/publications/ kite builders (kite.org), Kite Builders todayisthe kite lab (kite. Kite The - - - - trum ofpractices Apart technology, be identified: andfunctions useas war can from they were deployed inChina, forinstance, inthe10 outside ofEurope, tothe soundkites connection look at and toflywithno ground (sic!). Ifonehas a a spec broad tion for aviation motorized according tothe heavier-than-air flightprinciple [cf. Crouch 2003],whereby thegoal was always to cast off the kiteline for children andahobby. Only for 1860–1910) ashorttime(about same timeasprepara (meteorology) andatthe tools asscientific were used kites where became known kiteflyingfirst 1967,through Asian [Hart moderntimes tradeinearly 61–80] andstill todayismainly regarded asanactivity charactertoday intheChinese ofwindandharp. for kites, Thesituationisdifferentcomposed whichis inEurope, feat [Newman 1974,sound [Pelham in eerie whimpering fled fear ofthe 1977, 204]andwhosubsequently be ofthisorigin 9].Evidence can still found makers»with «noise [Crouch 2003, 24]flownatnight over the camp oftheenemy troops,believed who were thatthegods announcingtheirde theendsofanarch. Hehadhiskites thatwere between hummers, ofbamboo tensed thinpieces devices. withsound so-called Heused equipped 202 B.C. HuanTheng— inspired saidto named whenhishat inChina:A commander was blownoffhishead—is have builtnumerous kites, which he (horvath.ch) hasemerged internationallywith Zero WindKites . Historically, thewritten begins in soundkites tradition of th century, as - - -

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- . - - 346, 347 & Dragons Blizzard Antoine Chessex distinctions of nature and technology (…), so too does energydoes too so distinctions ofnature (…), movetechnology and across as states Energetic transduction. movementisinthis a continuation way mechanical sense. inthis soundis all Justasthewindblowsmechanics: duction. belongto sounds andotheracousticalacross phenomena Audible «The movement from oneenergy statetoanother, larger ofenergy orelectromagnetism),between is eitherwithinorclasses called (mechanics trans ShhhhhhshhhhhhhhhhhshssshshshshshshshHHHHHHH to emerge. other temporalities with alongthinwire notunlike unfolded apianostring.Once intheair, enables the kite islike Ahumanartefact an antenna. anonhumanentity.transducing which of frequencies, tunnel persistent bench thebunch unpacks witha butaugmented After itsinstruments. anadequate resonance-body, Those indeed, choosing are kites andfitted a Like places. other to you takes wind the of sound the that pace. andfuture Thewindcan memories, unfoldpresent, which your inalabyrinthresonate past, ofnonhuman voices. If you listenclosely,seems it ization.Nevertheless, thewindisstillthere, emerging withwithitsownirregular —anddisappearing— like thearticulationofanabsence-presence Themountains, thelake,things aeolian. andtheskycreate thepromise andromantized ofanidealized nature by longcolonized humanindustrial It looks like awinterlylandscape, althoughSpringisapproaching. Thewindisblowinginthewidevalley, whichislike acorridor, anamplifier ofall resulting are sound class ofmechanics.» ofthesame attransformation,locatable oftransducers. theposition TheAeolian music inthattheactionsofwind,vibrating is amechanical strings, andthe 1

uuuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii - - fare, Sound,affect, andtheofecology fear 2 Unsound: «Thenotyet audible. Steve: Refers Goodman, where neuro soundisinaudiblebut stillproduces ofauditory perception, see affects tothefuzzyperiphery or physiological resonances»; 1 Kahn, Douglas: Is itfuture, or is itpast? fective force ismaking ofnoise you drift away body,from your as youenteranuncanny desubjectivation… of process There ofperception. inyour isanecho like theirlogics headphones high frequencies keep aweird imposing choirofominousancientvoices. Theaf istheuproarand so in your ears. upinthesky, Whilelooking adragon crosses theairspace, astheblizzard makes itdifficulttofindorientation. The hitlikebeen a giant spring.The stringhas Wasthat followed you,orthewind?First by resonance. adrymetalimpact, a Thewindisblowing stronger, ZBBBOOIIINNNNNNNG around you,colder. isgetting butyour body You listeningclosely,keep soundofthewindmakes andthe you wanderin yourhead.Allofasudden, secrets.voice unknown whispering While the kite is hanging in the sky, The snow is dancingyou hold the metal wire instrument. like a long-string Shhhhhhshhhhhhhhhyour ears are covered The by istwistingcochlea. apersistentnoise drone ofthewindislike headphones; your continuous a Here microphones, you will need piezos, workinglike andheadphones amagnifiertomake theunsound Earth, Sound, Signal: Energies andearthmagnitudein thearts Sound, Signal:Energies Earth, , Cambridge, The MITpress, 2010, p. 198. , University ofCalifornia Press, 2013. SHHSHHSHHSHSHSHHHSHS1SHhhhhhhschhhhhschhhshchhhhchhhhh WHHHHhhooouuuuuuuuuuwhouuuuuuuuuuuu 2 heard. Sonic War - - 348, 349 The Loneliness oftheMicrophone Fabian Gutscher, Patrick Müller about nature,about andhumans. bees about Fabian has given questions, uncontrollability, mesome about cillating around apulse. gel, stereo audio],rhythmized by the movements os of my steps was dronevorbeikam» [«Widerspiegelt, (2010),ChristophBrüng In my ears, murmur, ahigh-pitched water, some aslowlypulsating I amwalking. Iam walking telepathically withFabian. mortality inmythology.» Butisn’t flowingasignof transience? water as«...the about Christoph writes elementpromising im Thedrones andtheflowingbringtranquility. Iamthink. I amwalk. Patrick «I’mready.» meamessage: sends I hearwater, itisflowing. - - - and moved by human hands. water flows around andthey them, legs, are touched by insect orintheartspace.the landscape Abreeze brushes over them, tle againstwires andplanks. andstones They hang,stand,lie in In my mind’s eye, lonelymicrophones everywhere. Isee They nes inglitches,electronic hum, indrones, themicrophone. innoise: so intimatelyagainst myear.wind, whenitnestles Ihearitin an Do you Ihearitinyour hearittoo? voice, andthe inthe plops hands, ears: ofthemicrophone».feet, «Theloneliness me. to But anotherthoughtseizes itself my butitglues Iresist it, mother’s belly, by whichismade tosound movement. Are these The humanearisformed before theeye. wehearwater inthe So Is thatwhy thiscalm feeling arises? sounds stillstored somewhere?sounds I turnacorner. - It’s cold

Are you stilllistening? microphone bee, nature culture andreedhearing. andpiezo, insect cardioid between tween between and windtunnel, I amswimming,listeningwith body,my be ocean inthematerial phone. ItdriftslonelyinthemightyEngadinelandscape. wirebody, andresonance of aflyingobject, isagiganticmicro formed by PizPalü andPizd’Err.consisting The tripleinstrument, vaplana. The kite is the measuring instrument in a wind tunnel, Via my headphones, IhearFabian flyingakite, Ipicture himinSil When a bee walksWhen abee uptoamicrophone, downlater. it hastocome heat-generatingthe bees’ vibrations? [«Bien»(2019),Ludwig in my ears. Istart warmer.feeling ofDo Iheartheknowledge fromBerger’sbees Ludwig The installationhumI letmyself drift. Do I hear bees working? Do Ihearbees Berger, stereo audio] That’s predictable - - -

I amalways already inside. Withyou. made andwhathappens, where are humans, nature, technology. My earnolongerknows whatisoutsideandinside, whatis or whomiscontrolling what here. controllingand reacting—or whatis whom here andwhen when I get dizzy in the face who or what is acting of doubtabout myselfI wantas part of complex to see systems until the moment A friendfrom HongKong wrote once water, me:«Be my friend!» recording downuntilitisnolongerdistinguishablefrom the real recordings ofVenice withoutabinaural microphone. Iturnthe I immerse myself intheatmosphere ofSilvaplana and remember In therecordingsounds of Islowlyfindthe Perhaps water itreally asaplayer tobe ispossible too. soundscape. Iturnitupagainandthendownagain. I play thegameafew times. Are you stilllistening? Triple Instruments . 350, 351 Interview ciplinary partsmake upyour transdisciplinary identity? capitulate my question for Florian:If you hadto give up your transdisciplinary identity, wouldwe find in whichdiscipline you?Orvice whichdis versa, I’m I’m startled. by the riverconcrete at the and look structure and wonder whetheralso randomness exists with engineers. Ire Isthatwhere cultural most theinstrument. thelightsswitchtoabout lies? I history cross the street, orange. AblackBMWis already revving its engine. er andplayed). We be mistaken completely natural speakofthe andthusitwould to thissystem, influence or coincidental. Ithink andcontrol: space,boundaries theinstrument(sound thestring(player,resonance), andwhatis connector andthekitewithahummer played), (play chaoticsoundscape. Thewindoffersa seemingly The freedom. ty. Moreover, there’s my laterexperience onfilmshoots. engineer asasound To hearhow far removed ourculture’ssound products are of from those ingly reject thisunbelievablecontrol. degree of serendipi That’s coincidence, whyseek I controlled happy —andhopefully coincidence, — so-called a performer plays sounds. Everything only the desiredof all the possible a composition, writes is wrong.sounds else Over time, to increas come I’ve read Mirjam’s and question realize, how much I think like again, once a musician: For years, we learn to bring control. an instrument under composer A time without a «Synchronisator.» I frommiss the feedback the others’ walking pace, us. but knowing that they connects I sounds hear the same re- ders, coronavirus andalltheabsurd distancingrules. continue We walking alonetogether. It’s donean I’ve alongtimesince likeexperiment this, this do you reach your limits?»Ileave my house. «Limits»lingerinmy thoughts andoccupy themfor thenext few minutes. 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