Sxip Shirey playing bowls with red marbles

[meghanlevick]

the overtones produced are really something!

[jacodemon]

Dayum!

[looppool]

so beautiful!

I do a piece of music where I place small clitoral vibrators into tuned Bar Pint Glasses. They buzz and bounce around the bottom causing a clattering noise but occasionally they bounce off the bottom and 'ring' the upper part of the glass just like a ringing telephone. I loop a long ambient section of this 'found' chord and then I loop another

'fundamental' pitched glass and pitch it with a midi wind instrument through an electrix Repeater, tuneable live looper.

[rocketshipstud4]

my very very favorite glass marbles I play ringer with are called "sea turtles!"

[rocketshipstud1]

I wonder if metal aircraft ball bearings (steelers in marbles) will make unique noise? wild wild wild video...

[sxipshirey]

@rocketshipstud1 find that metal ball bearings are a little to clattery. The size of the the glass marbles I use seem perfect to pull as much tone as possible above the clatter.

[rocketshipstud1]

fantastic!...marbles are pure physics into motion!...vibration and sound...(well we could either write a termpaper on this or we can drive our baby-sitter nuts!)...or how to get divorced with red marbles...lol I bet this drives dogs and cats ears crazy!....cool video!/ @ milwaukee

[mystimayhem]

TOTALLY COMPLETELY AMAZING

[frankkylou]

This is my favorite. It is magic. <3

[106ohm]

It's a "natural" oscillators session... Very good :)

[sxipshirey]

funny! from that sonic viewpoint yes!

[kitcatkitty506]

Haha. Awesome ^^

Im going to try this in the morning and see if anyone wakes up XD

[tomate91br]

sounds like an alarm!

you can wake up with that!

[buzmeister92]

That's eerie, but at the same time, incredibly beautiful. I love this idea, and I will have to try it =]] thanks for your musical input!

[maalaki]

eheh ;) i like the idea ;)

[RobertSHilton]

That's hipnotic, beautiful.

[robbieisgay]

When the first 3 or so bowls have the marbles spinning in them, it sounds like part of the intro to the song Time by Pink Floyd. Pretty cool!

[Mesqualito]

Sound of glass hitting glass...very nice

its quite suprising.

[Mokupo]

Sounds rather eerie and mysterious. Perhaps build a mechanism that moves the bowls around for you if you push something down.

[MaToMaStEr]

very nice !

[Frojoemorrison]

that's ingenious

[kimlimbo]

pretty cool. will any bowl work or do certain bowls/material work better than others

[yukihir0]

whoa... sounds like a fire drill. awesome!!!

[ricluvno304s]

yeah..this is definitely awesome. Sounds very beautiful.

[JamesRoot01]

i think 5:59 may have been just a tad too long....

[divinemercyguy]

not exactly the most beautiful music :p , but aboslutely a wonderfully unique concept!

[gilby44]

to be honest that is quite annoying

nice try though and a good idea

[whoBEyou]

Sorry I just didn't like it, kinda sounded like an alarm clock gone horribly wrong

[alexxerxes]

Now all it needs is an idm drum beat playing in the background and you've got yourself a jungle hit.

[viddicake]

Gave me goosebumps o.o - amazing

[zenvidar]

that shares some of the haunting sound the glass armonica produces so well

[Goddamn666]

wow that was great. I'd like to have a 60 min CD of that to listen to.

[tubadylan]

Very interesting sounds. Pink Floyd would have loved using these bowls for sound if they hadn't smoked so many bowls of something else and broken up.

[starlightcheese]

this sounds like several alarm clocks going off at once . . . !!! you should experiment with clocks! I'm sure you, Sxip, could come up with some amazing sounds with a couple cuckoo clocks and the like. You're just that amazing.

[LiviaScott]

WOW! That is a very awakening experience. Thank you, Sxip, you are pure magic.

[cirkusgal]

Sxip's music is the non-verbal audio guide thru a mythic numinous Jungian dream. I like to close my eyes.

[foolishcitation]

Playing my shadow

Brings individuation

Momentarily

Tickle my eyeballs

I, too, like to close my eyes

So that I can see

[samuraigrrrl]

absurd, beautiful, i love that fifth bowl.

[foolishcitation]

It makes me want cherries.

Little, rouch cherry

Marbles, birthed from a bowl,

Laugh because they know.

It's boring just to

Lose ones marbles commonly.

Make music instead.

[foolishcitation]

Ahem. "round" not "rouch"

[vlmeiss]

amazing, you knew that.

[Winnjn5]

Very cool.. not that I'm surprised :)

[ladiemarmalade71]

Why this is amazing? tis Puzzling. Why it isn't amazing? All the more puzzling

[waytoocoolforschool]

I would never have thought of anything nearly as awesome as this. I would have broken the bowls.

[HUMANWINE]

Modern Life Orchestra

A small family of bowls got a chance to work with a marble gang via Sxip Shirey.

I had a ball singing along in my head!

guts and bugs,

holly

[ThrashRiot]

insanity