{"id":2685,"date":"2013-11-13T18:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2014-01-20T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:26:04","slug":"listening-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/listening-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/butcher100\/8571464701\/\" title=\"199.365.02 by Randomographer, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8379\/8571464701_983b0c7fb4_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" alt=\"199.365.02\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Listening Stones, St. Vrain Greenway, Longmont, Colorado<\/h3>\n<p>Granite river boulders, wood, flagstone. 1997. <\/p>\n<p>This sculpture uses a parabolic sound mirror carved into boulders to dramatically magnify the sound of a nearby stream for listeners. It is inspired by satellite dishes, the seating in choir lofts where curved walls reflect sound and the antique hand-held sound magnifiers used in the days before hearing aids. The concept of sound reflection has been known for centuries, such as at the Whispering Wall in China. &#8230; Now, parabolic sound mirrors are found at children&#8217;s playgrounds and in dish microphones at sporting events. The creative aspects of this sculpture are threefold [&#8230;more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tullyartworks.com\/listen.htm\">Robert Tully Artworks<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening Stones, St. Vrain Greenway, Longmont, Colorado Granite river boulders, wood, flagstone. 1997. This sculpture uses a parabolic sound mirror carved into boulders to dramatically magnify the sound of a nearby stream for listeners. It is inspired by satellite dishes, the seating in choir lofts where curved walls reflect sound and the antique hand-held sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-music","category-links","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}