The handle turns, and the gentle tones of beech and hiba wood play, sometimes with a picture-story, sometimes with a little dancing, and always with fun and other whimsical tricks.
Street organs started in Europe in the eighteenth century, as tiny hand-cranked machines for teaching songbirds to sing melodies. The street organ you will see at WMDF started along with the Hakodate Trienniale in 2012, and it has already has brought new harmonies to audiences for more than a decade.
At WMDF, when the street organ sound drifts around Motomachi Park, we know that time and place are a little different, and that new worlds and new experiences are never far away. Prepare to be transported to a place where music, imagination, and fable dance to a new kind of beat.