Some students built a giant wooden megaphone so they can listen to the forest
What a beautiful idea
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Your support makes all the difference.A team of architecture students from the Estonian Academy of Arts have installed three gigantic wooden megaphones to allow forest ramblers and dwellers to better listen to the sounds of nature - a place for resting and contemplation.
51% of Estonia is covered with forests, and they are intertwined with Estonian culture.
Author Valdur Mikita, who has written extensively on this, extolled the project, saying: "It’s a place to listen, to browse the audible book of nature – there hasn’t really been a place like that in Estonia before.”
The megaphone installations also double as seating areas and places to shelter from the rain, and took a large team of people to build and put in place.
“The three megaphones [are place] at such a distance and at a suitable angle, so at the centre of the installation, sound feed from all three directions should create a unique merged surround sound effect,” explained Hannes Praks, who led the project.
People not lucky enough to live in an Estonian woodland are already calling for sound clips, but I imagine the megaphones are much richer in actual experience.
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