The putting facade pipes of the brand new Rieger organ on the Helsinki Music Centre are the primary of their variety – crafted from Finnish, wood-based UPM Formi 3D biocomposite. The organ options 3D printed sounding pipes and wind strains totalling 260 meters. With 124 sound registers divided amongst a number of completely different units of pipes, it’s the largest in Finland and Scandinavia, and is the biggest fashionable organ positioned in a live performance corridor worldwide.
Helsinki Music Centre’s organ is a results of worldwide collaboration, with the biocomposite materials produced by UPM in Finland being shipped to Burgos, Spain, for 3D printing. Subsequently, the printed pipes had been transported to organ builder Rieger Orgelbau, in Austria. The organ was initially handcrafted by Rieger Orgelbau, disassembled, shipped in elements to Helsinki, after which reconstructed within the Music Centre’s live performance corridor.
The distinctive design of the facade pipes necessitated discovering appropriate materials and a dependable, versatile, and cost-effective manufacturing methodology. The effective cellulose fibers within the biocomposite facilitate large-scale 3D printing, and the fabric’s minimal shrinkage, fast cooling, and self-sustaining properties allow the environment friendly manufacturing of complicated components.
3D printing generates minimal waste, and the wood-based biocomposite, which inherently possesses acoustic qualities generally utilized in, for instance, speaker enclosures, is 100% recyclable.
“The organ sounds magnificent. It’s great to open the live performance corridor to the general public and luxuriate in each the music and the visible expertise that our new organ and performers will present ranging from January,” stated Kaisa Näreranta, Government Director of the Helsinki Music Centre Basis and Challenge Supervisor of the Organ venture.
The Helsinki Music Centre Basis initiated a naming marketing campaign for the organ pipes – elevating funds for organ music, and producing organ packages, and occasions. UPM contributed to the marketing campaign via its Biofore Share and Care program.
“At UPM, we now have a protracted custom of supporting the humanities, and we wished to take part within the Helsinki Music Centre Basis’s donation marketing campaign. We’ve got named all of the implausible facade pipes of the organ,” stated Hanna Maula, Vice President of Communication and Model at UPM.
The brand new Rieger organ can be inaugurated on New 12 months’s Day 2024. The opening live performance on the identical day will function Olivier Latry, a live performance organist who contributed to the design workforce of the organ.
