Orgue marin
Sea organ
Sea organs are located on the western part of the Zadar waterfront and are recognizable for their cascading coastal profile that stimulates change in coastal movement, retention and descent to the sea.
The stone steps extend to seventy meters of the coast, divided into seven ten-meter sections, below which, at the level of the lowest sea level, 35 polyethylene pipes of various lengths, diameters and slopes are installed perpendicularly to the shore, rising obliquely to the coastal position and ending in the channel. (service corridor). The wave-suppressed air is led from a broader to a narrower profile, in order to obtain acceleration and produce sound in the instruments (LABIUMI - whistles) located in the corridor below the coastal promenade, from where the sound (through mystical openings in stone) exits into the space of the promenade. The instrument has seven clusters of five selected tones derived from the matrix of Dalmatian singing. Just as the energy of the sea is unpredictable in innumerable changes of tide, low tide, size, power and direction, so is the eternal concert of marine organs inimitable in innumerable musical variations, whose author and interpreter is nature itself
This is a place where the combination of human ideas and skills with the energy of the sea, waves, low tide and tide, a place for relaxation, reflection and conversation with a continuous concert of the mystical tones of the "orchestra of Nature".
Immediately after the completion of the construction, the Sea Organs were promoted to the metaphorical place of the city of Zadar, which is now excited by its citizens, which has become an unavoidable point in all the tourist itineraries of the city of Zadar and its region.
The marine organ was designed by architect Nikola Bašić from Zadar with the help of a number of experts: the consultant for marine hydraulics was prof. Vladimir Androšec from the Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, pipes were performed by Goran Ježina from Murter, and the well-known art workshop for organ making - Heferer from Zagreb made 35 labiums for each tube, and their musical tuning was performed by prof. Ivica Stamac from Zagreb.