Corson Studios :: Gallery - Rain Drum Courtyard

Public Artworks - Rain Drum Courtyard

RAIN DRUM COURTYARD Cedar River Watershed Visitors Center, North Bend WA The space between 3 buildings houses a wild overgrown forest floor with a slow moving stream and a canopy of tall, thin and lacy vine maples. Interspersed between the trees are 17 "rain drums" that play the raindrops as they fall from the sky and drip from the branches. When the sky is dry, there is a set of computer controlled water drippers that create a set of changing rhythms.

First a set of Afro-Cuban rhythms will play for a while, then as the computer is re-synching to the next beats, the sounds will mimic rain until a Native American rhythm can be discerned. This pattern continues from rhythm to raindrops and again to rhythm. There is also a drum available to the public to contribute to the song.

Contributors and Special Thanks: REMO INC. . (Drum Manufacturing), Composers: Bear, Jorge Bermudez, Fabricators: Paul Sorey, DK Studios Funding: SPU% for Art, City of Seattle, Administered by the Seattle Arts Commission Architects and Landscape Architects: Jones and Jones