Name Albums Where All The Instruments Are Played Entirely By The Wind

Alan Lamb - Primal Image

(lamb discovers a series of abandoned telephone wires out in the middle of the austrailian outback, furiously singing to themselves, goes back later to record two albums worth of the wind & wire improvisations, brutal, fierce, noisy, but also profoundly beautiful -- 'Primal Image' is the first one, the later one 'Night Passage' is up there too)

Garlo - Vent De Guitares

54 guitars placed on the summit of the highest sand dune in Europe.

http://aquitaine-image-cinema.fr/IMG/jpg/ventdeguitares_gr.jpg

from the documentary

Few if any records go deeper than this one, and I don't even want to say that much about it, beyond to tell people who think that they might be into it, they definitely are. you'll almost be upset it took you this long to discover it.

Alvin Lucier - Music On A Long Thin Wire

This shouldn't be on this list -- the wire is connected to an oscillator which provokes it, and it's usually installed indoors where there isn't much wind -- but the wind chips in, and the results have much in common with some of the other records mentioned here, so it's in the club.

http://www.lovely.com/albumnotes/notes1011.html

2 CD's, the first one (Lassithi/Elysium) is in my top ten ambient records fer sure.

I have the 2nd Aeolian String Ensemble record "Eclipse" and it's okay. Actually it's in my sell-back pile, there's a lot of digital processing. But the one person I know who's heard both agrees with you that the first one is a classic.

toshiya tsunoda - extract from field recording archive #2: The air vibration inside a hollow

maybe not 'wind' as such, but this thread has to have some kind of shelf life, and air is pretty much wind

http://www.musicstack.com/item/156064781/young+_apz_+united/everyday+with+jesus

I'd forgotten that I'd heard the first Aeolian String Ensemble record, and liked it! I've been going through mp3's at such a rapid pace this year, need to slow down.

Harry Bertoia's "Sounding Sculpture":

http://www.sculpturecenter.org/oosi/sculpture.asp?SID=379
http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?gid=603&aid=2413

He's recorded scores of self-released 'Sonambient' albums where he plays his metal sculptures, usually with active bowing and striking of the extended resonant metal rods & tines. It sounds amazing, as if someone important had paused time at the exact moment your grandfather's clock struck midnight.

Most were on vinyl, of the ones that have made it to CD the one to get is "Unfolding"

http://www.sonimage.ne.jp/img/bertoia001.jpg

this one almost counts:

http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200507/27/92/b0014492_14281577.jpg

http://www.hundertmark-gallery.com/bilder/jones/cd-cover12.jpg

Joe Jones - Solar Music

a collection of solar powered instruments that begin playing themselves when the sun comes up -- some of the instruments sound aeolian, though this is definitely more of a sun thing than a wind thing. beautiful record though. a different recording of the piece is on ubuweb, but the CD pictured above is the one to find.

The sonic qualities of ice turned out to be so fantastic that Terje decided to start working on a CD recording with ice instruments. He wanted to expand beyond ice percussion, and had ideas for ice "brass" and string instruments. Recording conditions would have to be extreme, because the fragile ice instruments are very quiet and also prone to temperature damage. The perfect location was found at the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi , North Sweden , and music for the CD "Iceman Is" was recorded the first two days of February 2001.

http://cgi.ebay.com/HARRY-BERTOIA-SONAMBIENT-PRIVATE-PRESS-ART-LP-SIGNED_W0QQitemZ140051017128QQihZ004QQcategoryZ306QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.fullchannel.net/~cdzingg/eBay/sonambient_1.JPG

Unfolding is still in print, easily found online. ReRusa has it, so does forcedexposure.

He also did one piece where the instruments were played by fire. Cool.

also, the alvin lucier on a budget sounds of richard harrison's drone hill 225.