Photography by Elvert Barnes<\/a> Source: Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n This sculpture is part of Christopher Janney’s<\/a> Urban Musical Instruments series. According to Janney’s website<\/a>, the Hyattsville Horns are located in the Hyattsville, MD. The piece was installed in 2004, and was commissioned by Prince Georges County Art in Public Places Program.<\/p>\n Besides looking really interesting, this piece is also interactive. Here is how the artist describes the Hyattsville Horns:<\/p>\n This interactive performance sculpture creates a \u201csonic portrait\u201d of Prince George\u2019s County. It is composed of 5 colorful independent 9ft horn instrument forms spaced so people can walk among them. A map of the County is embedded in the instruments. There are a series of \u201chand plates\u201d that when touched illuminate and the instruments play a sound or group of sounds from a \u201csound bank\u201d \u2014 a combination of environmental, historical and melodic sounds significant to the County and its impact on the region. A County-specific riddle is engraved on a stainless steel plaque at the center of the sculpture. When the riddle is deciphered and \u201chand plates\u201d are touched in the correct pattern, the instruments will play a saxophone \u201cshort\u201d in reply. The sculpture is lit from dusk to dawn.<\/p>\n Source: janneysound.com<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Elvert Barnes took some great detail photos of the Hyattsville Horns. Check out the maps that Janney mentioned are on the bells…<\/p>\n Photography by Elvert Barnes<\/a> Source: Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Photography by Elvert Barnes<\/a> Source: Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Here is a shot of one of the tone holes, which must contain one of the speakers which emit the sounds made by these bells when activated by the “hand plates”.<\/p>\n Photography by Elvert Barnes<\/a> Source: Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n To give you a bit more perspective on the scope and size of the Hyattsville Horns, here are a couple more pics of these beautiful bells…<\/p>\n Photography by Elvert Barnes<\/a> Source: Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Photography by Elvert Barnes<\/a> Source: Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Barnes has written about his trip to visit the Hyattsville Horns. You can read about it in his blog post of February 7, 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n In case you’re wondering about the artist, he is very interesting. Christopher Janney is trained as both an architect, and a jazz musician. In his work we often see these two very divergent disciplines become fused together in rather stunning ways.<\/p>\n The biography provided on his website<\/a> reads as follows:<\/p>\n CHRISTOPHER JANNEY is an artist, architect, and practicing jazz musician. He received a BA in architecture and visual arts from Princeton (magna cum laude), and a Master of Science in Environmental Art from MIT. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, and has been a visiting professor at Cooper Union in New York City since 1991.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To find out more about Christopher Janney, check out the About<\/a> page on his website.<\/p>\n![\"Christopher](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sax-Bell-Sculpture.jpg?ssl=1\" "\\"Hyattsville")
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