Windwall

29/08/2021

This is NOT yet WINDWALL, but a huge milestone for us.
A week ago we presented 20% of WINDWALL as part of a work-in-progress event accompanied by sound actions and concerts in East Side Gallery. In the meantime the harmonica collecting process goes on for a little more in order to complete our mission to build and install the 6x4 meter sound sculpture in 2022.

A BIG SHOUT OUT goes to everyone who supported us to make this first big step:

- the dream team of sound artists who built WINDWALL 0.2 Haesoo Eshu Jung Hyewon Heather Suk Sham Chung Tat Ben Glas Eagle Wu Andyvazul
- the performing artists: Andrea Parkins Didi Kern / Philipp Quehenberger Csaba Gál Boogie Tamás Szabó
- the operational team: Virag Arany Krisztina Turna Karoline Kerkai Júlia Madaras
- the event's power team: Tóth Bátor Denes Papp Ferencz Dániel Rakosi Daniel
-Benedek Takács Agnesh Pakozdi Barbara Antal
- all the supporters: Hauptstadtkulturfonds CHB - Collegium Hungaricum Berlin Seydel Harmonicas Hohner Music Lee Oskar Harmonicas Stiftung Berliner Mauer Initiative Neue Musik Berlin / field notes BLUEXLAB AgProp
- all those hundreds of people who have already contributed with broken harmonicas

photo credit: Barbara Antal

22/08/2021

The first step after a long preparation process towards building WINDWALL.
Fantastic crew, outstanding artists, curious and supportive audience, perfect weather, great location, a lot of noise, but also some melodies, full moon and magic in the air. Here comes a flash from yesterday's work-in-progress event, WINDWALL 0.2 | THE PILOT EVENT until we get back with a more decent material.

photo credit: Barbara Antal

20/08/2021

In 16 hours we present 20% of the Windwall as part of the WINDWALL 0.2 | THE PILOT EVENT.
Line-up:
17:30 Andrea Parkins
19:00 QED Sounds with Didi Kern / Philipp Quehenberger
20:30 Csaba Gál Boogie & Tamás Szabó
We will activate this big chunk of the sound sculpture three times and listen to the sound of it in between played by the wind (artificial if needed).
Here goes a big UP to our precious group of sound artists who worked incredibly hard to build WINDWALL 0.2 and will perform at the event.
Haesoo Eshu Jung Sham Chung Tat Hyewon Heather SukBen Glas Eagle WU Andyvazul

May the WIND be with you!

18/08/2021

Bring your broken harp and make it blow by the wind!
On Saturday we present 20% of the WINDWALL as part of a work-in-progress event at East Side Gallery: WINDWALL 0.2 | THE PILOT EVENT.
Six sound artists will activate the 4x2 meter chunk of the harmonica wall that will be accompanied by three concerts: Andrea Parkins, QED Sounds and Csaba Gál Boogie & Tamás Szabó.
¡¡¡ During the event we still collect broken reed-plates !!!

12/07/2021

We are speechless! This is a unique movement and reflects all what WINDWALL is about.
39 hungarian harmonica players contributed to the collection of 727 harmonica reed-plates that will cover 1/7 of all the reed-plates on the sound sculpture.
I big UP to Tamás Szabó who organised the massive collecting action and all harmonica players that were ready let their harmonicas go for this cause.
Some players offered hundred reed plates, others were ready to donate the one they bought as a child and took care of for several decades. How many stories will these reed-plates tell us once they are on the WINDWALL. It is absolutely touching. Now we have a total of 3357 reed plates. 843 to GOOO!

Big thanx to the 39 Hungarian contributors: Ákos Angyal, János Baranyai, Csaba Beke, Csaba Besenyei, Mr Bernaat, József Bernát, K.C. Brown, Csicsák György Balázs, Balázs Fórizs, Bence Csíkszentmihályi, Laszlo Csizy, Zoltán Fegyver, Ferenc Engler, Mihály Horváth, Tamás Hrabovszky, Allen Karginov, János Korényi, Zombor Kovacs, Ottó Kulcsár, Andor Jamboreeguru Oláh, Marcell Juhász, Wojciech Młynarczyk, Nándor Öveges, Attila Lengyel, Papp Liza Ildikó, Prekop Győző, Matt Pribojszki, Zoltai György Zozó, Tamás Szabó, Huba Szalay, Zsigmond Szert, Takács Attila Kistaki, Gergely Szőke, Teddy Harpo, Gábor Tukora, Zoltán Sebők, István Bernáth, Márton Rabi, János Gordos

10/06/2021

On the Windwall everyone's harp has a story and every single contributor is equally appreciated. However, it would be difficult to avoid emphasising how much we are honoured when we receive packages from legendary players of this tiny instrument. Thank you for this round PT Gazell, Cathal Johnny Johnson, Jef Funk, Kev Bishop, Andy Ross-Gower! With your support we are seriously getting there.

07/06/2021

A BIG UP to Kytary that is offering 20% discount when you buy one harmonica if you bring your broken one and donate it to build Windwall in Berlin.
This is the real spirit of collective action, recycling and support.
Thank you Kytary and Hohner Music!

Sbíráme staré harmoniky pro zvukovou instalaci v místě Berlínské zdi! 🤯 Za každou starou harmoniku, kterou přinesete na naši prodejnu, dostanete slevu 20 % na koupi nové od Hohner Music. ❤👉 bit.ly/hohner_unitedsound

13/05/2021

A few more packages from UK and Australia together with some special pump organ reeds, we will find place for those too.
Thank you János Gordos and Jordan Deneka!..and the collection is getting bigger and bigger...

06/05/2021

Please welcome Italia and USA on Windwall!
We received the first package from the oversees, which means worldwide shipping works. No more reason to hide your reed-plates ;) Thank you Andrea, Gianluca and David from Georgia!

27/04/2021

Either we receive loads of harmonicas that someone collected during a life-time, or we are given a single harp that was treated as a treasure with lots of love throughout the years, the gesture is in both cases tremendously appreciated...and we become emotional. Thank you Chris the cat, Dave and Tara!

12/04/2021

Let's make it begin!
We are so glad that many of you contacted us from different parts of the world either with the intention of sending harmonicas/reed plates or just supporting words for the Windwall project.
We received the first big package of harmonica reed plates by post. Here goes a big-up for Lars Seifert and Bertram Becher from Seydel Harmonicas who sent us 21 Kgs of waste reed plates
We send a huge THANX to Zombor Kovacs who actually advanced us the first box of broken Hering Harmonicas and Hohner harmonicas and reed plates a few months ago in person.
In the meanwhile other packages are also on the way.
Stay "de-tuned" with our process of collecting broken reeds! ;)

28/03/2021

dear folks,

We created this page to provide a platform for questions, connect easier, make the logistics smoother and give you constant updates about the process of building WINDWALL.

Once you are here, you probably all know that we aim to build a sound statue of broken harmonicas right next to the former Berlin Wall, but this wall intends to connect people instead of separating them. WINDWALL will be played by the wind and of course will make the sounds of harmony and freedom...something that this tiny instrument, the harmonica also represents to most of the harp players.

For this we invite you all to send us your unused/broken harmonicas so that we build WINDWALL together through a world-wide collective process. In return for your support we cover your postal expenses, engrave your names on the sound statue and give a little personalized surprise.
The logistics is quite a complex procedure since we are accepting harmonicas from all over the world, but together with DHL we are trying to find the smoothest solution. We kindly ask you to let us know if you are ready to join and send us harmonicas/reed-plates as soon as you can. Then it might take a little time to organise the shipments, cause it is really unpredictable to see who will donate us.

We are truly excited about this adventure and very much looking forward to building WINDWALL together.

We hope to see you all on board!

windy wishes,

virág, karoline and vazul

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: LET'S BUILD WINDWALL TOGETHER!Are you ready to participate by donating some broken harmonicas?Please get in touch with us and we will ...