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a pattern that passes right through you by soph

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a pattern that passes right through you by soph

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sound dialogue between the lake/sculpture and me/water drum performance

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sound dialogue between the lake/sculpture and me/water drum performance

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sound recording underwater for water sound piece

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sound recording underwater for water sound piece

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sculpture > skeleton of the water/antena

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sculpture > skeleton of the water/antena

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How to build your own mud house keeping these 5 things in mind? : Thannal Part 2

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How to build your own mud house keeping these 5 things in mind? : Thannal Part 2

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ai generated sketch - bigger skeleton-like structure to sit with and play the drum 

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ai generated sketch - bigger skeleton-like structure to sit with and play the drum 

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some shapes made with clay and dirt from the lake

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some shapes made with clay and dirt from the lake

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gathering water and dirt from the lake to make bones 

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gathering water and dirt from the lake to make bones 

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Hadouram (Selfmade Water drum)  by Aki-Ra Sunrise　2017  [meditation/healing/yoga/sleep/water]

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How to Make Abstract Sculpture in Clay; working solid and hollowing out.

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Making Abstract Sculpture can feel very elusive; where to start, when to stop? This post aims to de-mystify the process and give you an ideal technique that will allow you to go with your fl…

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Polyglobular/Ball & Tube flutes - Susan Rawcliffe

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Polyglobular ball & tube flutes were inspired by the small prehispanic flutes found in the middens of many prehispanic cultures. (see the research page for a picture.) These are literally balls & tubes; the irregular inner shapes make irregular overtones or harmonics.

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Introduction: Making a Water Drum

What's a water drum?

The water drum is a very old percussion instrument, traditionally played in African tribes.

The bottom half of a large hollow gourd is filled with water. Another half, smaller, is placed open end down on top of the water. When the smaller gourd is played, it produces a bass tone.

Over the time, this instrument has spread over the world and evolved with the use of different materials.

This instructable aims to show you how to make a modern water drum with simple elements without nailing, drilling or gluing anything. So when you're done playing music, you can still use your container, bowl, plate, glass

Step 1: Gather Your Tools

THE THINGS YOU'LL NEED TO MAKE ONE:

2 bowls

Rubber bands (3 for one water drum)

Adapt the thickness to the weight of the smaller bowl.

Clothespins (3 for one water drum)

I chose wooden clothespins to avoid unwanted metallic vibrations but I guess plastic ones will do fine too.

It could be anything you can wind the wire around.

And of course a lot of water!

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You can play it with your hands and fingers or you can build mallets with:

2 sticks (wood, plastic, anything)

Any sort of fabric (old socks or shirt, towel, bandage,...).

Step 2: Pick Your Bowls

What they're made of don't really matter. It could be steel, plastic, wood,... try with what you have and see if you like the sound of it. The only important thing is that one should be at least half as small as the other so the bowls don't touch each other even when you hit them.

Step 3: Make the Attachment Rings

Start by winding the wire around a stick. Make 4-5 rounds. Then slide the rubber band around the coil you just made.

(Note that you'll need 3 of these for each bowl.)

Finally, clamp the rings to the smaller bowl: the one that will be floating.

Step 4: Place and Tune the Bowls

Fill the larger bowl with water. Take the smaller one and place it on top.

The top bowl should be upside down and touching the water (to make sure the air is locked inside). Slide the attachment rings to every third of the bowl then use the clothespins to bind the two containers.

By removing some of the air locked in the top bowl you can change the pitch.
The more air there is, the lower the pitch.

That's it, you have your water drum ready to play!

Step 5: Make the Mallets

Take a stick and cut off the desired length. (I find short sticks more manageable and lighter)

Then roll any piece of fabric over one end. Roll it tight and tuck the end (or tape it).

I used bamboo sticks and an old bandage but the possibilities are endless. Just try with what you have around. Note that while the pitch is defined by the size and type of bowl you choose, the kind of sound depends of the sticks or mallets.

Hard sticks or mallets will produce a clear and sometimes aggressive sound when soft ones will produce a more rounded and warm sound. The best way to know which you prefer is to experiment a lot.
Have fun!

Step 6: Recording (USE HEADPHONES)

Here's some tracks to get an idea of how it sounds.

Water drum 01 : One water drum played with my hands.

Water drum 02: 4 water drums tuned and played with mallets (+ glockenspiel and water sounds I've recorded myself)

Feel free to ask me anything and to share your experience or any audio / video if you decide to make one (or more?)

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Making a Water Drum: What's a water drum? The water drum is a very old percussion instrument, traditionally played in African tribes. The bottom half of a large hollow gourd is filled with water. Another half, smaller, is placed open end down on top of the water. When ...

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water, birds, plants and such

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Ritual of mourning the lake  - concept for performance 30th of june

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Ritual of mourning the lake  - concept for performance 30th of june

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"In India a bone-throwing ceremony concludes the Hindu death observances. Within a year after death the remains are taken to the Ganges River and thrown into the sacred water; if it is not possible to do that, they are thrown into another river or stream with the hope that they will eventually make their way to the Ganges"

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"In India a bone-throwing ceremony concludes the Hindu death observances. Within a year after death the remains are taken to the Ganges River and thrown into the sacred water; if it is not possible to do that, they are thrown into another river or stream with the hope that they will eventually make their way to the Ganges"

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/burial-death-rite#ref110696

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burial, the disposal of human remains by depositing in the earth, a grave, or a tomb, by consigning to the water, or by exposing to the elements or to carrion-consuming animals. Geography, religion, and the social system all influence burial practices. Climate and topography determine whether the body is buried under the ground, placed in water, burned, or exposed to the air. Religious and social attitudes determine how elaborate the burial should be; rank, for example, may determine whether the body is placed in the shallow trench of a simple burial or in an underground chamber of impressive dimensions and construction.

Burial in the ground by hollowing out a trench in the earth for the body or covering it with rocks or dirt dates back at least to the Middle Paleolithic Period. Grave burial, or inhumation, may be simple or elaborate. Some Eskimo people cover the corpse with a pile of stones or, if stones are not available, with a small ice igloo. The Old Norse people built barrows that sometimes reached enormous heights. In eastern North America, large burial mounds were characteristic of Indian cultures from 1000 bce to 700 ce.

Graves may be mere shallow pits, or they may be intricate and beautifully fashioned subterranean palaces sunk deep into the earth and spacious enough to accommodate vast numbers of persons. Excavations of the royal graves of Ur (dating back to about 3000 bce) revealed, in an inner chamber of one, the body of a ruler with a few intimate attendants and, in surrounding chambers, servants, ministers, dancing girls, charioteers with vehicles and animals, and other persons who had been slain to provide service in death. Recent discoveries in Peru revealed that the Paraca burial chambers, hewn out of solid rock 18 feet (5 metres) below the surface of the ground, were large enough to accommodate as many as 400 corpses with all the belongings that it was thought they would need in the afterworld. Customarily, however, graves have been planned for the burial of individuals.

Caves, a natural refuge of humans, have also been used for the dead. The ancient Hebrews used natural single-chamber caves and hewed oblong recesses lengthwise into the walls to accommodate the dead, a custom that encouraged the building of mausoleums. At first regarded as sacred places, they came to be considered unclean. By the time of Jesus Christ they were coated with lime so that they could be recognized and avoided-the literal origin of the metaphoric "whited sepulchres." Among many people, however, sepulchral caves continued to be regarded as sacred and eventually became places of worship. Among them are thousands of rock temples in western India and in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), some of which received elaborate architectural and sculptural treatment. Both caves and earth graves encouraged the development of other burial practices: the use of coffins and rich graveclothes and burial goods.

Even the positioning of the body came to acquire significance, generally of a religious nature. Customarily, the body is placed in an extended position, in or out of a coffin, as if in sleep. Bodies of Muslims are laid on their right side and facing Mecca. Those of Buddhists are laid with the head to the north. The bodies of ancient Egyptians were placed to face toward the west, perhaps as an indication of the importance of the land of the dead. Not all groups prefer the sleeping position. Early cultures often buried their dead in a crouching or squatting position. In Babylon and Sumer, the sleeping position was reserved for the more exalted; servants killed and buried with their rulers were placed in a crouching position so that they would be ready to serve at royal command. Many Native Americans buried their dead in a fetal position, sometimes in a basket or clay urn, with knees under the chin and the body neatly tied into a death bundle. Upright burial has been favoured by other people, particularly for warriors.

Western burials have become fairly standardized. In the 21st century the dead are interred in cloth-lined and simply ornamented coffins called caskets, and after ceremonies of eulogy and farewell the casket is lowered into a rectangular hole, which is then filled up with earth. Beginning in the 19th century, burials increasingly took place in cemeteries, which are special areas set aside as sites for graves. See cemetery; see also cremation.

Water burial

The association between water and immortality is reflected in the myths of many cultures, myths that often centre on a god-hero who sails away from his people in death with the promise to return again. The bodies of chiefs and heroes, therefore, have often been set adrift on rivers and oceans in death ships. Among the Norse, even those who were interred were sometimes given such a bier-a custom that was widespread from Iceland to England during the 7th and 8th centuries ce. Perhaps the most famous of such ship burials that have been excavated was that at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. In one mound, archaeologists found the remains of a wooden boat for 38 rowers, 85 feet (26 metres) long, that had been dragged a half mile (about 1 km) from the river and lowered into the ground.

Water burials have been common in other cultures. In the Pacific Islands it was customary to place the dead in a canoe and launch that on the water. Not all water burial involves a ship or raft, however. In the Solomon Islands, bodies have simply been laid on a reef to be eaten by sharks; in other places they have been wrapped and weighted with stones. In Western cultures, water burial is still employed on occasion when people die during a sea voyage. Scattering ashes on water is widely practiced, especially in Asia; in Laos, for example, the ashes of the cremated are often strewn at sea. In India a bone-throwing ceremony concludes the Hindu death observances. Within a year after death the remains are taken to the Ganges River and thrown into the sacred water; if it is not possible to do that, they are thrown into another river or stream with the hope that they will eventually make their way to the Ganges.

Exposure

Placing the body where it may be eaten by scavenging birds and animals or weathered to its essential elements has been held by many groups to be the most desirable form of disposal for spiritual as well as material reasons. The Zoroastrians have been perhaps the most widely known practitioners of this type of burial, which developed out of the belief that the corpse is so unclean that to inter or cremate it would contaminate the "pure elements" of earth, fire, and water. Since the 6th century bce it has been their custom to leave bodies on mountains or hills at a distance from the community. In Mumbai the Parsis (as the Indian descendants of the Persian refugees are called) maintain " towers of silence," high circular structures. The dead are carried to them, and funeral servants place them on stone beds surrounding a central pit. After the hovering vultures have stripped the flesh from the bones-usually within a few hours-the bones are gathered and dropped into the central pit.

A number of people who expose the dead use trees and platforms (tree burial). Among them are the Bali Aga people of Bali, the Naga people of India, the Aborigines of central Australia, and the Sioux and other Native American groups. Commonly, the Sioux robed the dead in their best clothing, sewed them into a deerskin or buffalo shroud, and carried them to a platform about 8 feet (2.5 metres) high. Various possessions and gifts were placed on the scaffold, and the body was allowed to remain there for a year; at the end of that time it was taken down and given an earth burial.

Second burial

Among many peoples, a period of waiting occurs between the first burial and a second burial that often coincides with the duration of decomposition. The origin of this practice is considered to be the different concept of death held by these peoples. In such societies, death is held to involve a slow change, a passage from the visible society of the living to the invisible one of the dead. During the period of decomposition, the corpse is sometimes treated as if it were alive, provided with food and drink and surrounded by company. Some groups on the island of Borneo, for example, attach mystical importance to the disintegration of the body, sometimes collecting and carefully disposing of the liquids produced by decomposition.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Brian Duignan.

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burial, the disposal of human remains by depositing in the earth, a grave, or a tomb, by consigning to the water, or by exposing to the elements or to carrion-consuming animals. Geography, religion, and the social system all influence burial practices.

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Solastalgia () is a neologism, formed by the combination of the Latin words sōlācium (comfort) and the Greek root -algia (pain, suffering, grief), that describes a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change. It is best described as the lived experience of negatively per…

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machines filling up lake at the suikerterrein

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machines filling up lake at the suikerterrein

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Do a three day trip of either birdwatching or water-watching and under water recordings / either using a hydrophone or sensors to create a sound water scape installation

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Op één dag 30.000 brandganzen zien overvliegen: dat is imposant. En dat is het Lauwersmeer! Twee keer per jaar staat het gebied in het teken van de vogeltrek. In de nazomer vertrekken de wielewaal, de kluut en de lepelaar om in het vroege voorjaar weer terug te keren. 's Winters verblijven hier duizenden ganzen. En ontelbare trekvogels gebruiken het Lauwersmeer als 'tussenstation' op hun jaarlijkse tocht van overwinterings- naar broedgebieden en weer terug.
Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer is daarom een Nederlandse toplocatie om vogels te kijken. De vogelkijkplekken Jaap Deensgat, Roodkeelplasje en Ezumakeeg staan garant voor het zien van bijzondere vogelsoorten. Bijna dagelijks 'spotten' vogelaars zeldzaamheden in het Lauwersmeergebied. Klik hier voor actuele de waarnemingen.

Staatsbosbeheer heeft op een aantal plekken vogelkijkhutten neergezet. Vanuit zo'n vogelkijkhut kun je de aanwezige vogels, zonder ze te verstoren, van dichtbij bekijken. Kijk op de overzichtskaart voor de locaties van de vogelkijkhutten. Eigenlijk zou een verrekijker tot de standaarduitrusting van iedere Lauwersmeerbezoeker moeten horen. Heb je geen verrekijker, dan mag je in één van de vogelkijkhutten vast wel even door de verrekijker of de telescoop van een aanwezige vogelaar kijken. Dan gaat er een totaal nieuwe wereld voor je open!

In het Activiteitencentrum Lauwersnest kun je gratis een vogelkijkkaart en een complete vogelstreeplijst Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer halen.

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Vogels kijken - Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer

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Op één dag 30.000 brandganzen zien overvliegen: dat is imposant. En dat is het Lauwersmeer! Twee keer per jaar staat het gebied in het teken van de vogeltrek. In de nazomer vertrekken de wielewaal, de kluut en de lepelaar om in het vroege voorjaar weer terug te keren.

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Activiteitencentrum Lauwersnest is het ideale startpunt voor een bezoek aan Nationaal park Lauwersmeer. In en rond het activiteitencentrum vind je alles over vogels en Dark Sky.
Zo vogel je hier uit hoe trekvogels het Lauwersmeer als tankstation gebruiken in de Oost Atlantische trekroute. Of neem een kijkje in de geheimen van de nacht en word een ster in de duisternis. Vanuit het centrum loop je zo de natuur in. Je vindt er verschillende wandelroutes en het is startpunt voor excursies.

Natuurspeelplaats

Naast het Lauwersnest is er voor kinderen een uitdagende natuurspeelplaats. Het letterlijke en figuurlijke hoogtepunt is een speelobject van 5 meter hoog dat eruitziet als een groot vogelnest. En omdat het Lauwersmeer een officieel Dark Sky Park is, zie je dat terug in het ontwerp. Het speelobject heeft een Dark Sky verdieping met een sterrenhemel. Om daar te komen moeten kinderen via netten omhoogklimmen. Met de kabelbaan onder het speelobject kunnen ze als een vogel over het gebied 'vliegen'. Er is een grote vijver waar kinderen waterbeestjes kunnen vangen en bestuderen. Ook is er een plek om met water te spelen, en er zijn verschillende spannende wateroversteken zoals stapstenen en apentouwen.

Openingstijden en activiteiten

Het Lauwersnest is geopend:

van 1 april - 1 november op woensdag, donderdag, vrijdag, zaterdag en zondag van 11.00 -17.00 uur;

van 1 november - 1 april op woensdag, zaterdag en zondag van 11.00 - 16.00 uur.

In de schoolvakanties (alle regio's, m.u.v. de zomervakantie) op dinsdag t/m zondag.

Op 25 en 26 december (kerst) en op 31 december en 1 januari is het Lauwersnest gesloten.

Ook als wij er niet zijn, is het Nationaal Park open voor bezoekers en zijn er diverse routes te bewandelen en te fietsen.
Adres: De Rug 1, 9976 VT Lauwersoog

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Activiteitencentrum Lauwersnest - Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer

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Activiteitencentrum Lauwersnest is het ideale startpunt voor een bezoek aan Nationaal park Lauwersmeer. In en rond het activiteitencentrum vind je alles over vogels en Dark Sky. Zo vogel je hier uit hoe trekvogels het Lauwersmeer als tankstation gebruiken in de Oost Atlantische trekroute. Of neem een kijkje in de geheimen van de nacht en word [...]