The Sea organ is an architectural sound art object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument, which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps.
Designed by the architect Nikola Bašić ,the site was opened to the public on 15 April 2005. The waves interact with the organ in order to create somewhat random but harmonic sounds.
The white marble steps lead down to where the water came from. were built later. Concealed under these steps, is a system of polyethylene tubes and a resonating cavity that turns the site into a large musical instrument, played by the chance-based results of the wind and the sea waves.
In 2006, the Sea Organ was awarded with the prize ex-aequo of the fourth edition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space.
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