BARREL HARP — it's maximum analog huge and quite complicated to operate musical instrument. The music coming out of this barrel is ephemeral — the walls change the form, musical tuning is flowing, one string tension changes the sound of the whole barrel, touching one string one can create vibrations, flowing sound, it’s difficult to tune the barrel and it’s practically impossible to repeat one and the same tune.
Nevertheless all the “defects” make it possible to depart from dictatorship of the accuracy, melody and imposed “music keys”. Unusual form the “instrument” makes it possible to experiment with it – change it’s position, one may play it with fingers, sticks, a bow, or it can even be used as a percussion instrument.
In the era of active and total miniaturization and digitalization, this instrument reminds us that sound — it’s about vibration, about volume, capacity, space, it is something that can be felt physicaly.
