Square Peg Round Hole - No. 8 from "Postludes For Bowed Vibraphone" by Elliot Cole
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2013
- squarepegroundhole.me
Simply put, the eight "Postludes For Bowed Vibraphone" by my friend Elliot Cole are some of the most gorgeous pieces of music I've ever heard. This is only the final "Postlude", number eight.
Check out more of Elliot's music here: elliotcole.com/
If you're interested in playing the "Postludes", you can buy the score here: elliotcole.com/vibes/
Many thanks to Mike Brophy for recording the audio! This was recorded in Auer Hall at the Jacobs School of Music. 
Видеоклипы
who knew a single vibraphone could create such a lush and peaceful melody... i'm amazed!
GreerGreer anyone who’s ever heard a vibraphone
I didn´t know, you can do that on a vibraphone! It´s stunningly beautiful!!
u should wake up
you should calm down
Versatility is the word.
Try listening to slapped string bass, or to string bass played with drumsticks. Amazing what can be produced from musical instruments in unusual ways, eg. Dave Brubeck's Unsquare Dance - or what music can be produced from everyday items like plastic drainage pipes, eg. Blue Man Group.
This is how vibes should be defined ! Never occurred to me you can play them with bows, and even less the fact that they would give such a full and rich sound.
My favorite sound ever! Bows on the vibes, beautiful
Okay bowed vibes is the most angelic thing known to man besides... Well angels themselves of course 💗👌
I actually got to see one of these played live. believe me it's WAY better in person.
I love this. It's like a weird version of the glass harmonica.
Beautifully haunting, in both composition and sound.
The bowed vibraphone timbre in this piece are so pure and peaceful, it got me all emotional.
Oh my goodness. Composer sent here by the percussionist I'm writing for and she has WON me OVER my GOSH. Stars in my EYES. Also, it's a nice piece on its own two feet!
Most beautiful and inspiring! Glad to have found this on youtube!
So beautiful, from beginning to end. And it lingers, great performance
That took my breath away, I've never seen a bowed vibraphone. I'm trying this tomorrow 8D thanks so much for sharing this gorgeous inspirational music!
Beautiful sound!
This is so absolutely beautiful to listen to! I wish I could have something like this that was endless and constantly changing. It's giving me Fallout 4 vibes for some reason.
How tech just showed us this in drumline and I had to look it up! It's so pretty and unique I love it
*our
I miss playing bow vibes, this is so calming
This is so relaxing to listen to
My god, that's brilliant.
Beautiful!
10 years ago… neat.
Still one of my favorite videos to come back to. Bowed vibraphone has always been one of my favorite sounds to come out of an instrument, and this arrangement does a great job of capturing its awe.
Joe Porter has done something like this before, on his cover of Sweden from Minecraft.
we did this for a field show in the marching band in the front ensamble/pit and i fricken loved it.
This is glorious.
Great work guys. Seriously great work. I would love to see the score.
I need more!
Awesome!
Acoustic synthesizer pad, sounds like a DX7… amazing!
The most beautiful musical bukkake I've never seen.
Well done!
Pure bliss
Im so excited we're putting this technique in our marching band show!
Chris Towers i got to do this in marching band when i was in high school, it was so much fun! do you compete in the north east?
@@snailevangelist I do! Michigan, it's in the states if that's what you mean by northeast
thats funny we did it this past year as well.
So beautiful. :')
One of the most haunting compositions you will ever hear.
Quite suberb.
Que maravilla lo mejor que e visto
very nice harmony there. i like it more this way and consonant. Steve Reich wrote something that has this "technique" used in it but it's a lot more percussion-driven and dissonant... but also cool to check out. I'd definitely believe hearing it live is much better not unlike marimbas... tough instrument to re-capture in a recording. thanks for sharing this!
Just out of curiosity what’s the Reich piece called?
@@flux.aeterna I think its in his "mallets" piece
Sextet@@flux.aeterna
magnifique merci
Sensacional!!!
I did this to over ten years ago, I just only now searched for it.
Are you one of the performers in the video?
4 players, no mallets but the wildest thing are the music stands at both sides of the instrument !!
52 Chachki Pickup starts on bowed vibraphone and tremolo violins on A# for a whole note, then A natural.
wow.
You can sleep to this or just vibe if you like
Sounds pretty
I don't know what I'm doing here but reminds me of Morgan from TWD !
Solemn and haunting, the final ephemeral note sank within me and resonated in my thoughts long after the song was done, instilled within the silence like flame.
It sounds exactly like an Armonica.
If only there was a vibraphone modeled to maximize this amazing technique. Maybe a set of four vibes shaped like a cello or something.
This is like Kid A-era Radiohead shit right here.
Sounds exactly like Idioteque.
Exactly.
It sounds like the ending of Super Mario Galaxy
Wooosh Farmer I never had the opportunity to end it myself, what a wonderful game, I wanna play it again but unfortunately I don’t have my wii ;;
Does anybody know if the motor is on?
it is not
I am guessing they used bowed vibe on the soundtrack to 'The Medusa Touch' 1978?
Find it beautiful.
When I first heard this on radio today, I thought it was glass armonica.
How much did 8 string bass bows cost?
NOBODY believes me when i tell them this shit works
f yeah percussions
influenced by sigur ros?
fss1994 That's what I was thinking!
If you enjoy this you should listen to stone in focus by Aphex twin
That's synth ambient. This song is cool because it's played on an acoustic instrument, and you usually don't find this kind of music. I'm not saying that I don't like synth ambient, because Aphex Twin is my favorite synth artist. That song in particular (Stone in Focus) is great example of good synth ambient. The point that I'm trying to get across is that ambient music isn't just played with a synthesiser, but it's also played on acoustic instruments. This video is a perfect example on how to do that.
this is the sound of ancient temple. where they worshiped metal and made music with it this way
Is that an apollo 13 reference i hear?
I really love this so much - I found this cos I’m currently writing a chamber opera for my MA (about how we present ourselves differently in person vs through technology eg texting, WhatsApp etc, and so vibs play a big feature #ringtones) so was researching bowed vibraphone 🤣
This is so beautifully ethereal, and I looooove how you make a single vibraphone sound like a complex triangle synth... off of just one instrument?? I was researching cos I just got to the orchestration stage, and I was wondering why one player is needed to bow each note? I’m not a percussionist, so am genuinely curious!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
hi, percussionnist here. sorry for a late reply but bowing a vibraphone requires precision and you only have two hands, and you have to bow from the side so if you need the # keys you have to stand on the other side sometimes, it's a lot harder to hit a good angle otherwise, but doable. so the number of percussionnists needed depends on the amount of simultaneous notes and the pitch. and obviously walking around is distracting and someone has to hold the pedal. i don't recommend having the motor on to vibrate it because it makes a noise and the vibration gets quite intense. so yeah. you have to think about that when you write a piece like this because you want the vibe (ha) to fit with the movement of the player. imagine a guy running around the instrument to hit all the notes. hope it helps.
Sounds like the instrument was used no many of the tracks on the soundtrack to 'The Medusa Touch'.
I played this in my percussion ensemble and my sister said she almost feel asleep..
Sounds a lot like a celesta but a warmer sound.
music 2 feat daws
I got this same idea over 10 years ago
Ponk 80 the idea of a bowed vibraphone or of the music?
Don't listen with headphones, someone is breathing hard.
Gorenghal thanks for the advice, I’m hearing it with speakers