This 230 Feet Long Organ In Croatia Uses The Sea To Create Interesting Music

It turns out we can use nature without exploiting it.

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• May 5, 2021

Amazing things can happen when people collaborate with natural elements without exploiting and devastating them. It can even create music, as people in Croatia did. They’ve created a 230-foot sea organ that harnesses the sea and wind energy and converts it into soothing music.

The “morske orgulje,” as the locals call it, was designed by Nikola Basic, an architect from Croatia, and officially opened in 2005. Wind and water enter through holes on the lower steps, and they are channeled through a series of resonating chambers. After that, they exit through the holes on the higher steps. And the result is wonderful.

Listen to the sea organ play:

This part of the shore became a popular local and tourist spot. This sea organ is an excellent example of what a little bit of imagination can do. The city of Zadar was completely demolished in WWII, and the renewal project left it with many ugly concrete buildings. One of those was a very long concrete shoreline. This is a great improvement, and we hope it will inspire people in other cities with similar shorelines

Damjan