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Installation of Floating & Clanging Ceramic Bowls in Giant Indoor Basin | My Modern Met
By Sara Barnes on June 19, 2025 These floating ceramic bowls generate “melodious and incantatory sounds,” all without human intervention. Artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot explores sound and movement in an expansive installation now on view at Bourse de Commerce — Pinault … Continue reading
Artist Reimagines Korean Folktale As Elegant Acoustic Sculpture | My Modern Met
By Eva Baron on June 21, 2025 View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Cleveland Museum of Art (@clevelandmuseumofart) Haegue Yang’s latest installation at the Cleveland Museum of Art elegantly weaves together cultural storytelling, movement, and sound. … Continue reading
Why Gongs Are So Expensive | So Expensive
The unmistakable sound of the gong has held spiritual significance in Southeast Asia for centuries. Hand-beaten from sheet materials, the labor-intensive shaping and delicate paintwork result in beautiful percussive instruments. Souvenir gongs can be bought for just a few dollars, … Continue reading
original udu making in Nigeria – Eugene Skeef’s udu project
This short film by Eugene Skeef shows 4 Igbo women from Nigeria demonstrating the technique of making the udu, a clay pot drum. The udu was invented by the Igbo and it is traditionally a women’s ceremonial instrument. The word … Continue reading
The Story of Salvador’s Banda Didá — Longreads
In a country with violent history and violent politics, Brazil’s first all-female, Afro-Brazilian percussion group drums and dances and changes lives. via The Story of Salvador’s Banda Didá — Longreads
Wide-Mouthed Heads Consume and Absorb a Range of Mutable Forms in the Short Film “Distortion” – Colossal
Swedish animator and sculptor Alexander Unger (previously here and here) creates stop motion animations and tutorials on his Youtube channel titled Guldies. His most recent claymation, Distortion, follows the transformation of eight dice-sized blue cubes into a series of limbs, puddles, and wide-mouthed heads that consume and … Continue reading
The Apprehension Engine: An Instrument Designed to Play the Music of Nightmares
Movie composer Mark Korven wanted to craft the perfect sounds for horror movies, but the instruments he needed didn’t exist, and he was tired of using the same digital samples. To produce the original effects needed for evoking breathtaking moments of … Continue reading
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