Tones, Modes and Moods.
Sounding Bowls with 12 strings or more have the flexibility of tuning that makes exploring modal music easy. To gain a feeling for a mode all you have to do is play spontaneous composition based around a key note. Because…
Pentatonic Moods
Octaves and scales are created by natural divisions of a flute or a string, halves, thirds, fifths of the set length create notes that make up our scales. The simplest scales, used all over the world by early societies and…
Seeking the source of Creativity – the sound of wood singing – August 2009
My drive to make things began only once I discovered woodturning. Previous to that I was more interested in talking about things Perhaps it was once I was into my twenties, but making things became very important, it overtook music,…
The Crossing Place of the Heart
The crossing strings featured in the Bridging style of Sounding Bowls are a powerful image. The idea came to me while seeking something new for a travelling exhibition in Germany whose curators had asked me to put together something bigger…