Bowling Bells

BOWLING BELLS is an excuse to listen carefully to a few everyday sounds, and to celebrate their extraordinary beauty. Central to the piece are two stainless steel bowls which have served hundreds of pounds of salad to our many guests over the years. I have always marveled at the rich sonority that each produces with the slightest encouragement. They are nearly perfectly tuned a minor third apart (though with everyday use that perfection does vary from dent to dent,) and they signal major points of arrival in the piece.

The four channel playback is of digital retunings of the metal bowls, yielding 15 equally spaced pitches within the minor third. The 30 glass bowls used here have served hundreds of gallons of soup to many guests over the years, and have a range or nearly a minor third also, with many pitches in between. Performers sound the bowls with various implements found in most homes: toothbushes, marbles, combs, trickling water, and fingers.

BOWLING BELLES: Brianna Balke, Mary Buchner, Liz Carnathan, Megan Dick, Cynthia Fogg, Paula Goldsmid, Jereen Kwong, Kathy Lawrence, Rebecca Lent, Kelly Park, Genevieve Peaslee, Jordan Pedraza, Lucy Shelton, Sayuri Soejima, Leah Wald

BOWLING BEAUS: William Chen, Anders Crabo, John Cvitkovic, Josh Durgin, Tom Flaherty, Colin Flynn, Chris Gomes, Christian Heath, Nick Humphrey, Scott Jespersen, Yoon-Chan Kim, Samuel Lewis, Luke Lindemann, Brendon Randall-Myers, Wayne Steinmetz, Tim Stutz, Zeben Kopchak

VIDEO PRODUCED by Barry Werger

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bowls
• bowler
• bowling
• bells
• electronic
• Vladimir
• ussachevsky
• pomona
• college
• kitchen
• microtonal
• utensils
• tableware
• marble
• hat
• comb
• toothbrush
• water
• percussion

[DrMarkAlburger]

Wow!

[taurusdrift]

very nice! I like the water noise.