Display of sound sculpture innovations by Anton Hasell

Display of sound sculpture innovations by Anton Hasell

This display includes Hasell's Twist bell, 2018/19. Hasell developed the twisted bell form using 3D digital modelling software. The more ‘free-form’ acoustic properties of the twist bell expose to our ears for the first-time resonant frequencies that abound in the Australian landscape. A large-scale twist bell, The Eel Bell, has recently been cast at Billmans Foundry, to be sited as a public sculpture on the Yarra River at Stonnington.

Hasell's innovations in difference-tone acoustics are also explored in the exhibition, including a bell prototype for the Long Now 10,000 year clock project, and a tuning fork designed to resonate with the frequencies of the earth.