EFDSS News

In 2005 the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) commissioned sound sculptor Henry Dagg to create an interactive sculpture for the garden of its London home, Cecil Sharp House.

Although the project was originally meant to take six months it ended up taking Dagg five years. The completed sculpture, a 'Sharpsichord', was a solar powered music box, pin-barrel harp - built entirely out of stainless steel - that played itself. It was not suitable to be kept in an outdoor garden, as was originally intended.

Dagg decided to buy himself out of the original agreement with EFDSS and kept his Sharpsichord for other ventures. Björk included the Sharpsichord in her 2011 Biophilia tour.

Watch Dagg's ‘guided tour’ of Dagg's of the Sharpsichord

Information sourced from: http://dvice.com/archives/2013/01/yanko-design.php

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Music sculptor's solar powered harp used on Björk tour

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Music sculptor's solar powered harp used on Björk tour

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