rock music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my research related to my sound installation for Pines Calyx and the many flint rocks that I have found there, I have come across the work of Ian Cross, a Reader in Music & Science and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, who has proposed that flint tools could have also been used for musical production as far back as The Upper Palaeolithic age.

It is quite possible that the flints used were probably thinnish blade-like stones, which when struck made a sort of xylophone or chime bar sound. Different lengths and thicknesses would have produced different pitches and tones with the result that a clear pitched sound could be heard.

This hypothesis that flint could have been used as a medium for musical expression seems like a good starting point for the creation of my piece. For this reason therefore I have decided on a circular stone built white building as the location in the garden for whatever it is that I create.  It seems an ideal space for some rock music!