Kaleidoscopic Flute

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Curiosity took me to the centre of Sharon Temple, where I was arrested by this perspective looking up within the interior of the spire. What can be discerned as a yellow bannister defines the second floor gallery which traditionally served as the choir loft for singers and musicians. The idea is simple yet brilliant, allowing the shimmering musical sounds to cascade down from players unseen, as if by magic - akin to playing in a pit orchestra, but from the heavens above, rather than the depths below!

Make no mistake, this is a world premiere of my Improv for Flute & Dustbuster 2 ! Rather than wait for a break in the ambient sounds of the vaccuum, I elected to just play along with the situation as I sounded the ample acoustic of the light-filled space. Personally, I like the juxtaposition of unexpected sounds, similiar to the Trio for Primitive Wooden Flute, Pneumatic Drill & Birdsong, posted a while back.

Urban Flute Project offers you a kaleidoscope of sights and sounds!

kaleidoscope 

[Greek kalos, beautiful + eidos, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots + -scope.]
ka·lei’do·scop’ic (-skŏp’ĭk), ka·lei’do·scop’i·cal adj., ka·lei’do·scop’i·cal·ly adv. *

1817, lit. “observer of beautiful forms,” coined by its inventor, Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), from Gk. kalos “beautiful” + eidos “shape” (see -oid) + -scope, on model of telescope, etc. Figurative meaning “constantly changing pattern” is first attested 1819 in Lord Byron, whose publisher had sent him one.**