Can 18th century bells play funk jazz?

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  • Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
  • Here's a clip from my concert in Nijkerk, The Netherlands on July 2, 2024. The instrument is from 1777 by Andreas Joseph van den Gheyn, and the bells are tuned in meantone temperament. The piece is "The Mixolydian Mixup", a piece I wrote for carillon back in 2012. Sheet music is available through GCNA: www.gcna.org/m...
    Check out my other videos from July 2 at Nijkerk:
    Baroque music: • Van den Gheyn carillon...

Комментарии • 51

  • @eagl3ye
    @eagl3ye 5 месяцев назад +57

    When you make a mistake on piano, only you and your teacher have to know. Make a mistake on the bells and the whole freaking town knows it.

    • @SongSparrow1
      @SongSparrow1 5 месяцев назад +5

      Just tell them it’s your way of staying humble

    • @Liisa3139
      @Liisa3139 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@SongSparrow1 Only the musically trained will know, the rest will not notice a thing. Many people won't even notice that there are bells ringing in the first place.

    • @SongSparrow1
      @SongSparrow1 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@Liisa3139 Much to my dismay, yes

  • @Bonnie-wk9ze
    @Bonnie-wk9ze 5 месяцев назад +54

    Ah yes funk jazz on bells

  • @scottpollock6549
    @scottpollock6549 5 месяцев назад +39

    By the way, I listened to the entire thing, that was absolutely beautiful, I have no idea how you are so talented at not only playing but writing as well

    • @dj_laundry_list
      @dj_laundry_list 5 месяцев назад +1

      This is the first time in a while I've heard of someone watching or at least listening to an entire youtube video

  • @marca9955
    @marca9955 5 месяцев назад +17

    Really nice tune. Not sure about jazz/funk, but sounds great.

  • @cannolivibraphone
    @cannolivibraphone 5 месяцев назад +2

    Once again proving any genre can be played on any instrument

  • @paulweber2440
    @paulweber2440 5 месяцев назад +9

    An interesting way to 'rock the flock.' Totally dig it!

  • @professorpreston9674
    @professorpreston9674 5 месяцев назад +19

    Looks like such a fun location to play the carillon!

  • @SocksWithSandals
    @SocksWithSandals 5 месяцев назад +13

    I was in the main square of Bruges 25 years ago, and I'm sure I heard Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks being played.

    • @matswessling6600
      @matswessling6600 5 месяцев назад +1

      "seasons in the sun" is actually written by Jacques Brel. He was from Bryssels so that might explain it being played in Brugge.

  • @jameskolby
    @jameskolby 5 месяцев назад +15

    I found your video on my youtube home page and was quite surprised to hear Mixolydian Mixup mentioned. I haven't thought about that piece since I tried playing it in middle school when I was first learning to play trumpet. I had just learned what musescore is and found a copy of the piece there. Your work sounds great! I hope you have a great day!

  • @rillloudmother
    @rillloudmother 5 месяцев назад +1

    groovinest carillon jam; i would break dance to this if i could break dance.

  • @AC-ih7jc
    @AC-ih7jc 5 месяцев назад +10

    Mayor: Inspector, have you gotten any leads regarding those awful, brutal deaths?
    Inspector: One thing we *have* determined that they weren'tripped apart by wild animals...they were murdered.
    Mayor: Murdered?!? But this is a remote, bucolic town! There have been no strangers passing through. Everybody knows everybody else! We're all friends, family, and neighbors! Who could have done thes?!?
    Inspector: Then apparently this town has somehow spawned one amongst you who isn’t very friendly, familial, or neighborly. My job is to find out who they are, and part of that involve my determining how such a perfect town made them this way...
    (Cue this song playing as background to a montage of once-happy townsfolk, now absently going about their business with looks of concern and suspicion as each one reflects upon their possible part in creating the monster amongst them.)
    ‐-------
    Actually, it reminds me of this piece:
    ruclips.net/video/IUPWxjZY6mQ/видео.html

  • @JamesStripling
    @JamesStripling 5 месяцев назад +6

    Brought a smile to my face. What a fun piece to write for this old instrument. Thanks for creating this and sharing it with the world. Well done!

  • @johnwidmann1674
    @johnwidmann1674 5 месяцев назад +2

    Works. You're right. Modal stuff does, although some of the chromaticisms get funky in the pedal. But, all of that Mechelen romantic stuff was written for and played on the old St. Rombouts carillon, which was way more funky sounding on those bells.

  • @jodypalm303
    @jodypalm303 5 месяцев назад +1

    Very cool! Keep composing for the clarion bells!

  • @madeleinebaier5347
    @madeleinebaier5347 5 месяцев назад

    Beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your incredible talent with us!❤

  • @ian_does_things6586
    @ian_does_things6586 5 месяцев назад +24

    Me trying to tell the time only to have the time tell me.

  • @rockross8561
    @rockross8561 5 месяцев назад +1

    Pretty spectacular!

  • @treelydowd1362
    @treelydowd1362 5 месяцев назад +4

    This is sick. We dont have a bell tower (that they let the music students play) but i think this piece is DYING to be played on a B3. I may have to put a group together to make a properly funk recording of this piece when the semester starts.

    • @joeybrinkbells
      @joeybrinkbells  5 месяцев назад +2

      that would be really cool! reach out to me if here if you want to connect on this! www.joeybrink.com/contact

  • @LegacyCatalyst
    @LegacyCatalyst 5 месяцев назад +4

    A legendary video to discover on my feed, this is excellent!

  • @findingfreedom-definingtru4818
    @findingfreedom-definingtru4818 5 месяцев назад +4

    Awsome! As a Dutchman living in Portugal, you are almost making me homesick.
    Meanwhile, I also wonder how this comes across at a certain distance, on the ground, with a good bit of wind... 🤔 I lived within hearing range but not quite next door to the Grote Kerk in Den Haag. Some times the bells would sound like a cross between Schoenberg and John Cage, just due to the weather/distance.

  • @Liisa3139
    @Liisa3139 5 месяцев назад +1

    The beginning of the piece sounds much like orthodox bell ringing. It also brought to my ind some very distant memory of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. So, that is what went to listen to next. I noticed that I had really mostly forgotten what is in Tubular Bells, but yes there are bells.😃

  • @GeorgKallenbach
    @GeorgKallenbach 5 месяцев назад +2

    Great skills operating that beast :D

  • @jakesteampson7043
    @jakesteampson7043 5 месяцев назад +2

    What an incredible piece

  • @gusinfante
    @gusinfante 5 месяцев назад +1

    Oh my, it works SO WELL!!!

  • @rfm231
    @rfm231 5 месяцев назад +1

    Pretty cool dude 😎

  • @xKumei
    @xKumei 5 месяцев назад +4

    Yep 👍

  • @randolphfriend8260
    @randolphfriend8260 5 месяцев назад

    💙 Didn't think you would EVER 🙉 make it to the top! 🎉
    🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

  • @UnderSampled
    @UnderSampled 5 месяцев назад +2

    I feel like I'm committing a crime by listening to this on my phone speakers. Great job!

  • @GoodyBadApple
    @GoodyBadApple 5 месяцев назад

    This rips Joey!! Nice work :)

  • @dj_laundry_list
    @dj_laundry_list 3 месяца назад

    Still waiting for a funk ensemble to cover this

  • @SongSparrow1
    @SongSparrow1 5 месяцев назад +1

    These are the bells I want to toll for me

  • @furlosifurfox5794
    @furlosifurfox5794 5 месяцев назад +1

    wild stuff!

  • @an_asp
    @an_asp 5 месяцев назад +13

    Wow, that sounds great. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the instrument sounds at its best with music specifically composed for carillon, but I think this is the most natural-sounding performance on one I've heard.
    Though I am curious: this was presumably recorded from up there in the bell tower, but how well do some of those higher, quieter notes carry when the listener is far away?

    • @joeybrinkbells
      @joeybrinkbells  5 месяцев назад +10

      Good question! They do carry quite well, given the architectural design of the tower and olacemebtuof bells in the belfry. Actually this recording is a combination of in-tower mics and outside mics :-)

    • @an_asp
      @an_asp 5 месяцев назад

      @@joeybrinkbells Oh, neat! That's cool to hear that the audio was done that way, too.

  • @Amy-oq3yf
    @Amy-oq3yf 5 месяцев назад +1

    Please, please could you do Megalovania when best for you please!!!!

  • @scottpollock6549
    @scottpollock6549 5 месяцев назад +6

    Hey bro, can I ask what you do for work?

    • @joeybrinkbells
      @joeybrinkbells  5 месяцев назад +4

      This :-)
      I play bells, teach bells, and composé for bells

  • @rimmersbryggeri
    @rimmersbryggeri 5 месяцев назад

    Are there any bell samples for digial instruments. I think it would work very well on somehting like a lowry organ.

    • @Ihatecomingupwithanewname5942
      @Ihatecomingupwithanewname5942 5 месяцев назад

      There's a large variety you can find. I think there are some free ones from Spitfire Labs you can get, and the stuff they release is pretty good. Can't speak on much else though as I often use Roland's packs from their DAW

  • @Lucius_Chiaraviglio
    @Lucius_Chiaraviglio 5 месяцев назад +1

    Which variety of meantone was this tuned in?

    • @joeybrinkbells
      @joeybrinkbells  5 месяцев назад +1

      Quarter comma meantone, I believe