Matt Nolan Custom : Bowed Gongs quickie
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- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2010
- I'll go into actual detail on how to bow gongs when I finally do my long-promised "Bat-Head Gongs" video. In the mean-time, here's just an exploration of some bowed gong sounds using 3 of my hand-forged gongs.
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Finally, after all these centuries, someone makes music with a bow :P
I got chills from this. Could sample those sounds for some dark ambient music!
The low sounds from the batwings sound so... for lack of a better word, evil. I love it!
It sounds like Sigur Rós guitarist Jón Þór Birgisson, who I have been listening to since 2008. I will soon get a small wind gong for home use with a bow and experiment with it myself. Very good for meditation.
I would love to let loose in there. One acid tab and a handful of mallet's beater's and bows. Totally awesome.
So excited to see this video. I just started doing this myself. Amazing he range of sound you can get , and I am playing with crappy equipment.
If you put a cup or "boss" onto a gong it forces the vibrations to be more uniform and thus allows a strong dominant pitch which sustains for some time. Without a boss, gongs tend to be more broad sounding.
man they're amazing they sound amazing and look amazing!! nice work
@toskoramone I can't remember. It is a bass bow, not a cello or violin bow.
Awesome stuff! To me, the "bat-wings" reminded me of fins,
and the small pieces beside them, like scales.
The ethereal sounds seemed to hypnotize me. Like a movie dream sequence, or something.
I then began to imagine a large sculpture of a sea-serpent made out of cymbals, and made music like a wind chime...and it realized that it would be ultra fucking rad if it were real.
wow, simply wow
i love your "dragonwing" cymbals really really really great work :)
Love your creations!!!!! :-)
Thanks for the info, this stuff is very interesting to me!
I kinda feel like bowing gongs makes the best and worst sound possible at the same time I think that its the worst in the fact that its so dissonant but also the best because it still sounds cool
Yes. I do unlathed, part lathed and fully lathed cymbals.
@jamalshookup They are thin right from the beginning. The most hammering is in forming the spines / ridges.
Brilliant!!
Insane ,, you are my hero.
Love
I want them all. :)
1:00 to 1:25 sounds like the polar express when it stops in front of the kids house
3:59 Awesome!!!
sounds like that sound effect you hear in scary movies :)
@mistahmaxi err, with a cymbal lathe - see my other video...
Can you bow them back and forth consecutively, rather that only in one direction?
Do u lathe any of ur cymbals.
Also, do they get damaged if they are played with a drumstick as a ride? Is it not recommended to do that or something? I have never seen anyone do it, but I'd like to try it!
Some gongs are OK to strike with a hard drumstick at varying dynamics. Others you may have to be careful when playing harder
@toskoramone it's french
your gongs sound better than paiste's one !
Yes! Amazing...
What kind of rosin and bow did you use? If you don't mind me asking.
It's a relatively inexpensive German Bass Bow and Hidersine 3V Violin rosin. For larger or more stubborn gongs, Pop's Bass Rosin is better
@@MattNolanCustom Awesome, thank you:)
Maybe a more skilled player can. I haven't spent much time trying to master it. Firstly, the changing of direction is difficult to do smoothly - though string players manage it. Secondly, these are very lightweight gongs and I have to bow towards myself so I can hold the gong steady with the knuckle of my other hand. The only place I could try back and forth bowing would be up by the suspension cords. There is a technique using 2 contra-motion bows simultaneously...
minecraft cave sounds be like
Need. Batwing. Gong
That is one creepy sounding instrument.
4:32
@AusProM since they make better music than you could imagine some people do give a fuck about them.