Low Culture Essay: Robert Barry on the Sea Organ at Zadar (opens in new tab)

Robert Barry travels to the Croatian coast, where the Adriatic Sea plays the pipes of an installation that gives lie to the idea that sound art is "difficult" The Sea Organ in Zadar, Croatia, by dronepicr. Via Wikimedia Commons If you walk north up the Nova Riva on Zadar’s Adriatic waterside, you will start to hear a hum. It is not attributable to any passing traffic or any of the idling cruise ships up at the headland. The tone is deeper than that, warmer and rounder, less fuzzy. Come a litt...