The Singing Ringing Tree in England 2023-2024

Have you ever heard of musical sculptures? You can see and hear one in England. The Singing Ringing Tree is a 10-ft (3-m) sculpture, which has a tree shape and is made of pipes, making interesting eerie sounds. The tree can produce harmony, as the pipes are tuned according to their length and have holes in their undersides. The sculpture is set on Pennine hill over the town of Burnley in Lancashire.

The sculpture, designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu, appeared in 2006. It is part of the series of four sculptures called the Panopticons arts and regeneration project, which was initiated by the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN). The sculptures are supposed to symbolize the renaissance of East Lancashire. The Singing Ringing Tree, which won the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for architectural excellence, has been indeed drawing a lot of visitors to the area.

The name of the sculpture refers to a nostalgic television series called The Singing Ringing Tree, popular in the 1970s. In 2017, a second Singing Ringing Tree sculpture was created in a rural area near Austin, Texas.