Nicolas Reeves is no ordinary man – he’s an artist, an architect and a physicist rolled into one person. His “Cloud Harp” installation is the transformation of a natural phenomenon into music. “A meteo-electronic installation, a result of scientific work in radio-electronics, acoustics and programming,” is how the Cloud Harp is described by its creator.

Reeves’s Cloud Harp cannot be compared to anything else anywhere in the world. It is one of a kind. Equipped with knowledge of science and technology, Nicolas Reeves constructed the electronic device which is able to scan cloudscapes and transform their digital prints into sounds, and starts transmitting the music of the sky itself.

“A physical sculpture containing a technological system that, by means of an infrared laser beam eight kilometers high, reads the structure of clouds and then transforms this reading into musical sequences.” The clouds’ density, amounts of ice, light exposure, ability to reflect solar beams, temperature, height, speed and other physical parameters are immediately transferred to the machine which uses a specifically composed program to give out sounds.

The project is brought to Moscow by “Laboratoria Art&Science Space” – the first Russian noncommercial research centre which focuses on the interaction between modern art and science. The unique object will be on display in Moscow until October 20.