Ourdission generation II is a string instrument excited by different techniques:
1. first the winds, like an Aeolian harp, the sound will be generated by winds*fr
2. and by musicians who will use several string technique like bowing, percussion, picking, plucking, rubbing, etc.

The instrument is played outside and the audience are listening inside.

The 6 giant ellipses have the role of bridge and resonator. Each ellipse is hollow to amplify the sound acoustically. Then the sound is transmitted to the huge inflatable air vessel that resonate too, because the air vessel membrane "stick" in tension by internal blowing wind generated by 2 fans to keep up the building. The air vessel is a huge resonator with a tense membrane like a drum skin. All the 6 ellipses surround the air vessel tube where the audience are listening the music inside the musical instrument.

The 322 forty meters long strings are divided in 5 scales plus 2 external. It means that there is 322 x 7 = 2254 pitches to tune. That situation is very lucky for scale research and experimentation: we will create unheard scales. We going to use different strings' materials to get different quality of sound and start a research of what it sound and what it doesn't. RESEARCH ON STRINGS, CABLES, AND THREADS SONIFICATION TO CREATE SONIC BUILDINGS (in French). We will transform strings too, to get inharmonic and particular spectrum sound.

We use the term Harp, because of the number of strings. Ourdission generation 2's music has nothing to do with harp music. With my large experience of sounding, I create several particular string technique with arcoguitar, 9-tone-electric-guitar, blue-sky-cello-cubic, lamps music, etc. that Ourdission generation 2 will take advantage.

This is the acoustic part of Ourdission generation 2.

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