Roger Winfield—Voices of the Wind
(also his earlier record ‘Windsongs’ — which uses the same source recordings of his home-built harps being played by the wind, but then recomposes the recordings into fairly active compositions with chord changes & shifts and turns — good, but the later record ‘Voices of the Wind’ is just the sound of the wind producing the One Chord that contains every single overtone in the world inside of it., slowly travelling up and down, the kind of drone that makes most electronic music seem unnecessary and redundant.)
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.
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.
& that tsonuda looks great, I’ve got archive #1 & archive #3.
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”
& that tsonuda looks great, I’ve got archive #1 & archive #3.
this one almost counts:
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.
I passed them all up as well... they’re worth quite a bit more now
Unfolding is still in print, easily found online. ReRusa has it, so does forcedexposure.