Wind Chime Music
Wind chime music is a very specialised form of music originating in Zealandia. Although commercial recordings exist, the art form is a performance best appreciated in person, and concert tickets are highly sought after luxury items.
The beauty of a wind chime music concert lies not only in the music itself, but in the visual spectacle and the atmosphere. A true wind chime musician does not touch the wind chimes, but uses magic to manipulate the air around them, producing complicated and beautiful music. A typical performance will involve 50-300 individual chimes, each one unique. Performances by the most advanced musicians can be expected to have a long waiting list for tickets. To attend a wind chime music concert is a popular choice on bucket lists, and is described as one of the most romantic nights out.
Wind chime musicians are not common, due to the advanced magical skill required to produce even a simple melody. A mastery of elemental magic, specifically wind magic, is the key to wind chime music. The resources required for wind magic also factor in its rarity; when the Zealandians moved to Zeala-Obon, practitioners of magic and thus wind chime musicians had to adapt to their new environment, which led to a long lull in both. However once new magic minerals were located, there followed a boom in magic use which led to a considerable increase in the number of trainee wind chime musicians.
The most famous wind chime performance in history was the first one performed publicly on Zeala-Obon since the signing of the Planet Sharing Agreement, to celebrate the planet's official (re)naming. It was the largest performance in living history, and the first attended by the planet's indigenous peoples, the Matai-Obu and Kikae-Obu.
History
Wind chimes are popular in Zealandian culture. Use of them as a musical instrument came about when Operin Hashimoto, a practitioner of elemental magic, played around with a wind spell to control the way the air moved through the wind chimes outside his house, resulting in a structured melody. As he gained more advanced mastery over the spell, more and more people came to hear him playing the wind chimes. Wind chime music became an art form in its own right, and wind chime musician became a recognised profession.
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