The Resonant Arts Collective is building the world's largest instrument and we’d love for you to join us in this audacious adventure!

The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance, a 39’ tall, 51’ foot diameter interactive musical sculpture built out of 90 piano harps, immerses participants in the phenomena of 20,000 musical strings sympathetically resonating the sounds they make while inside. The wonder & joy induced by this experience invites participants to play with their own sounds by singing, laughing, crying, or howling.

The Space:

From afar, you see five pentagonal chambers with a tower rising up from the center atrium. There are five arch doorways you can enter.  Inside the space opens up, resembling a small open air cathedral. As you draw near, you see every wall is made from a piano soundboard – including the musical strings, metal harp, and the wooden frame.

In the center of it all is a performance dias.  Directly above the stage is a five sided cupola constructed of piano harps and antique windows, below which hangs an elaborate chandelier.  These design elements and materials are echoed in the five intimate chambers that surround the space. Intricate woodworking adorns the dais and chamber floors below, while copper patina and complex rope work accent the roofs.

Completing our Vision for Black Rock City 2019

We have already received a prestigious grant through the Black Rock Arts Honorarium program.

The incredible community forming around this project has also donated their own money, labor, tools, and other resources. This invaluable support would have cost us a monetary value of $98,071 if we needed to pay for it, but instead is going directly into the project. We thank our crew and volunteers endlessly!

These two sources combined gets us over 85% of the way towards making this a reality. However, to complete this incredible offering and share it with the world...  We need your help!

Whether giving a donation of any size, helping spread this call out to those who can, or taking on any of the project’s many roles, please join our community of people making this happen together!

How much do we have to raise?

• Raising $23,562 more covers:
  • Every expense needed to complete the basic, bare bones version using 45 piano harps - which will be amazing!
• Raising $37,084 total on this site (our stretch goal) covers:
  • The full version of the Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance evolving the project to 90 piano harps, greatly expanded infrastructure and over 20,000+ musical strings for everyone to play on!

What if we raise more?

Any funds raised beyond our stretch goal will go directly towards creating the most epic version of the Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance, incorporating all of these special projects:

• An intricately woven roof of mesmerizing string patterns by Guadalajara, Mexico based “Lotus Lamps” artist Guyphytsy Aldalai

• An aerial rig and an evening of performances curated by Karl Gillick of the Decameron

• A Dodecahedron Star Chandelier by Calli Beck

• Ornate Roof Spires by Clay McCabe of “Fotia”

• Architectural Design Features permeating the space by brother builders Jay and Frank Belo

• Integrated Storytelling Elements by interactive design collective No Sleep Studio

• An evening of performances utilizing the unique features of SoSR curated by Anastazia of Bad Unkl Sista

• A Newly Invented Speaker System arranged in Quinta-Phonic Sound System by Anthony Bisset

• Sound design and performances by SORNE

• A Custom Player Piano System designed to play the entire musical instrument - immersing all who enter in a vortex of sound!

Surprised by how much money it takes to create big art? We were too! There is a lot that goes into this:

Every donation, volunteer effort and share helps!!

And Finally, The Philosophy...

For those of you who are still reading this, we thank you! The philosophy and meaning behind this art is really what we believe makes it special. Sympathetic Resonance is a phenomenon of our natural world that occurs when sound vibrations interact with objects tuned to them so strongly that these objects continue echoing this tone into the room even after the original sound stops. If this phenomenon happens within our audible hearing, does it also happen in frequencies beyond our hearing? What about in our actions? Our words? Our thoughts? And if every action we take continues to resonate in the world beyond our immediate effect, what ways do we choose to participate in the world around us?

The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance will not only help participants experience this magical aspect of our everyday world but invite them to interact and play with it by singing or crying into 10,000 musical strings that echo back any sound people put into them. But how long do these echoes last? And where do they go when they rise up in flames?

With your contributions, we hope to find out at Black Rock City 2019!

Donate, Share, Volunteer and Follow along www.soundcave.org. With any donation we invite you to come drink some champagne with us to celebrate at the Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance Sunday at sunset! Plus a personalized thank you note from Resonant Arts.

Thank you <3 Tyson, Leah and our entire Crew of The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance

Follow along:

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Check out our past work and performances (Footage from our "Sound Cave," which we have brought to several continents and is made with only  5 pianos...imagine the Shrine with 90!):

Special thanks for Rob Schoenborn (@buyused) for creating our Video!