Booming Sandmountainin the Nevada desert, USA
News of Singing Sand and Booming Sand around the World
(Japanese Maxim: After pearents died, we all wish to do best for them. )
Research Center of Musical Sand
Musical sand including both singing sand in the beach and booming sand in the
desert , is the natural art that has been created for a long history of the
Earth. The sand's mysterious sound has been worshipped as a religious symbol,
and it also has brought up human sense of beauty. Besides, the sand react sensitively
to air and sea water pollution as a natural sensor, therefore, now musical sand
is an important inheritance of the Earth.
The singing sand in the beach is small scale phenomenon and booming
sand in the desert is very large scale one, but the sounding mechanism and
the quality of the sounds are, essentially, same. Both sands are mainly composed
of silica sand. There is another soud producing sand, which is unlike any other
sound producing sands; barking sand. The
sand is composed of calcium carbonate grains, which originate in sea-shell or
foraminifer of Kauai, Hawaii. This sand is in a old literature of
Bolton.
Harmonic (musical) tone is charming for human auditory sense ,hence the sand
called singing or musical sand throughout the world, for example the sand of
KOTO (Japanese harp) since old times.
Singing properties of the sand is very sensitive to pollution, and that can
be play a sensor for it. Then the sound producing property of singing sand on
the beach is a sign that shows purity of sea-water. If we can recover clean
sea, the sands in the world will recover the song.
Nature can be revive the sound by wave motion in the sea or wind action in the
desert , whoever hope the restoration the wonderful sound.
Booming sand in desert is also killed by crowded tourists in many places.
Now, the musical sand which includes above both sands were confronted
by two difficulties induced by their environmental changes. From the result
of the field surveys, we would like to show the situation by this news.
Activity:
1. The frog-cloaking toy are putting out on the market.
2. Meeting:1995 Singing Sand Summit in Tokyo,Japan-November 2,1995.
3. Discovery of many active booming dunes in Badain-jaran desert in China,3,Aug.1995 4.Information from USA