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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 from: Tobias Kaye

The Short and Remarkable History of Sounding Bowls

Sounding Bowls are round wooden stringed instruments with the strings inside. Intentionally a bridge between sculpture and music, their form is a balance between visual beauty and musical function. They may vary in string numbers from one to many, have no frets and are played on open strings, these are typically bronze wound steel guitar style strings. Tuning is by thumb-key to variety of scales or modes selectable by the user. read more
Posted: 19 Oct 2011 from: Kees Peters

The healing power of singing bowls and their relationship with Tibet

In this article I examine the effect of singing bowls in western Europe. I allow myself to takean open and spacious mind. In musical terms said: I improvise. I will play with the possible links between our Western culture and the culture of Tibet. Scientifically speaking this may be a hypothesis. With this I want to give my ideas some ground. This research is supported by my studies in Tibetan Buddhism. Several schools in buddhism arefamiliar to me. From Hinayana to Dzogchen. I also have studied read more
Posted: 18 Jul 2011 from: Ellen Franklin

Remembering the Whole

In our work with sound vibration known as the Acutonics methodology, our intention is to help people remember on a physiological and psychological level what it is to be whole. read more
Posted: 27 Oct 2010 from: Rod Paton

Music Technology and Lifemusic

The workshops I run and many workshops I attend use a whole range of instruments which I tend to call "instant access" instruments, drums, rattles, shakers, xylophones, gongs and so on a wide selection of which can be bought through Sound Travels. It is interesting to trace the way in which these musical tools have entered our musical spaces, particularly since many if not most of them are non european in origin. read more
Posted: 25 Oct 2010 from: Tim Wheater

flute circle

hello everyone, just a short report on a fun flute day i just hosted in haslemere. what a joy to invite a circle of beginners in to experience the creativity and expression of learning native american read more
Posted: 14 Jul 2010 from: Stefan Cartwright

M1 Shruti Box Demonstration

View a video demonstration of the M1 Shruti box. For more information about the M1 Shruti box visit this link. read more
Posted: 27 Jan 2010 from: Ellen Franklin

Embrace the Energy of the Sun—The Star We Know Best

The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do. Galileo Galilei The w read more
Posted: 02 Nov 2009 from: Tobias Kaye

Why Are Sounding Bowls Are So Effective

Development within Sounding Bowls has been ongoing for more than 20 years. I am actively interested in where this instrument comes from and where it is going. In the last 17 years, since Sounding Bowl read more
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 from: Tobias Kaye

The Movement of Blood in the Heart, Courage, Fear and Offering.

Every day I have to get out of bed in the morning. Sometimes that takes courage. I have to muster something in me and lift myself both physically and emotionally to meet the world as an upright human read more
Posted: 19 Nov 2007 from: General Discussion

Overtone Singing - Non-Traditional Styles

America and Europe&#8211 The 1920s Texan singer of cowboy songs, Arthur Miles, independently created a style of overtone singing as a substitute for the normal yodeling of country western read more
Posted: 19 Nov 2007 from: General Discussion

Overtone Singing - Traditional Styles

Eurasia The best-known of the traditional forms of overtone singing comes from Tuva, a small autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. The history of throat singing, or khoomei (Tuv read more

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