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Release Date: 2023-06-29Label: Staalplaat
Floating Islands is a mechanical floating orchestra , commissioned for the opening of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.The orchestra consists of fifty small floating “sound islands . A 60 by 15 meter formation fixed in a free water space. The base bodies of the ‘islands’ are floating red plastic buoys. Self-built flutes made from plastic bottles are fixed on top , a battery of 50 vacuum cleaners breathes life into the flutes like a huge lung. The steering unit consists of a controller running a composition Staalplaat soundsystem & Erwin Stache (d)