“Winds 001” is composed of thirteen pipes hanging from the ceiling. They are operated through an Arduino and solenoids that control the opening and closing of valves connected to a blower, and the air flowing through them creates sound. It’s a type of ceiling organ with 13 notes, a chromatic scale octave, from C3 to C4, that plays MIDI files.

“Winds 001” has two functionalities:

The first is a sun clock: somewhat like a cuckoo clock or church bells that mark time through sound. The mechanism of Winds 001 is programmed to awaken the ceiling organ to life when the sun reaches one of its daily extremes—sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight. Every day it happens at different times according to the movement of the sun and the Earth. For example, if sunrise on a given day is at 06:13, exactly at that time, the blower will start working, and the organ will play a short composition of a few seconds, marking that moment of the day, and then it will return to rest. This sun clock function of the instrument is already playing in the Feelbeit space and will continue to run as a permanent installation. The idea came from conversations with the Feelbeit team—Naomi Bloch Fortis Emmanuel Witztum, and Dudu Kosher—stemming from a desire to let the house play itself. The choice of pipes as a sound potential came from trying to blend in with the pipes already hanging from the ceiling, and was also inspired by David Byrne’s “Playing The Building.”

The second function of Winds 001 is a musical instrument, that can perform concerts.