Here’s something I was fully intending to share with you, but then… um… forgot about.

It’s another Westminster Chime Wind Chime. WCWC! It has 4 pipes tuned to the 4 notes of the Westminster Chimes. The idea is that it is cosmically unlikely, but over a long enough timeline, inevitable, that the wind will play out the simple pattern of the Westminster chimes!

Because it is partially made with scrap found washed up along the beaches of Staten Island, it doesn’t have a regular chiming pattern and strongly favors some notes over others. I think for this reason it is especially unlikely to ever play the Westminster chimes!

Watch the video, and be calm and happy. Imagine yourself sitting crosslegged ontop the deck that this WCWC is installed under- sipping rum from the bottle and hearing the ethereal, unpredictable notes wafting up from underneath you. Look out at the lights of New Jersey and think about how you never imagined that it could ever look so pretty. Pull your hoodie up over your head, and take another swig to brace yourself from the deepening cold. There. You’re basically now right there with us as we installed this months ago:

WCWC- Staten Island from posterchild on Vimeo.