Name: Sound Bath 014- Queena Yumi by Bivouac Recording
Duration: 5 min

hidden paradise #3

Sound Bath 014 featuring Queena and Yumi at Queena’s studio in Sheung Wan now available to listen on all major podcasting platforms. Search for Sound Bath Sessions on your favorite podcast app. See sbsessions.com for details.

Queena and Yumi played together for their sessions. This is perhaps the most musical and expressive recording I have recorded so far and is representative of the kind of recordings I have been fortunate to record these past few months. It is the one that had the most effect on me. Every time I listen to this, I am just overwhelmed. It is just beautiful.

They begin playing the bowls and titanium gong. Starting at the pace of life, it is full of energy and music. Heavy hits on the bowls shake the senses as mixed musical sequences create a pleasant environment. She shares the sonic space with Yumi as she awakens the gong- swelling, swallowing everything. As she retreats, the bowls slowly come up for air with their song. The bowls begin to become less varied as Queena strikes only a few bowls at a time, sometimes striking a single bowl until its constant ring fills your ears. The striking stops. Descent is imminent.

A rain box is flipped as it creates a constant shower. The next scene begins. Everything slows way down. The last rhythm is played as Yumi signals a transition with a single hit of her large symphonic gong.

What happens next is a dance. The synergy between them is amazing. You are enraptured with their song as it embraces you and takes you lower and lower until the veil is removed and you realize where you are. Love and loss. Light and dark. Everything and nothing. It is balance. It is powerful. It is deep. The pressure crushes you as you take shallow breaths. You find them again as they pull you to the surface. They conclude playing with the rain box. As the last few stones trickle down, they end with their final note as you break the surface and take a breath.

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Sound Bath 014- Queena Yumi

This is a 5 minute preview of Yumi's full sound bath. To listen to it in full please visit our Bandcamp page: https://soundbathsessions.bandcamp.com/track/sound-bath-024-yumi

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Yumi gives regular gong baths around Hong Kong. Her humorous and welcoming character complements the emotional sound baths that she performs. Yumi has practiced Reiki for many years and spends her time between Hong Kong and Japan with her family.

This was recorded at Ore Art in Sheung Wan. It was the first solo gong bath I had recorded and it blew me away. I had no idea a single gong could have so much power. Her symphonic gong is very musical with each hit creating a new layer of sound upon the last resulting in an overwhelming wave of sound that fills your mind. I felt new ideas and inspirations emerge perhaps because deep down that was what I was seeking. I would anticipate our future recordings as a time of creation and release.

In the middle of the recording, I had heard a unique sound inbetween the layers. She revealed that she sang into the gong with her voice. It was amazing how it became one with the sounds of gong softening it, making it more human.

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Sound Bath 024- Yumi

As I entered her studio in Kwun Tong, she had two small groups of crystal bowls. “I have a surprise for you, see if you can hear it.” She said. The piece started with a very somber tone. I felt there was a yearning, a calling in the beginning. She slowly transitioned to the second group which was more hopeful, and lively. This session was interesting because there was a predetermined concept for the composition that allowing her to freely improvise within its own limits. Ana has a large collection of crystal bowls and intimately knows each one. She does have a passion for music and her approach to singing bowls was more personal, molding her own style by exploring and experimentation. Her studio is next to a highway and a large construction site in Kwun Tong which is softly heard through the window of her space.
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Sound Bath 059- Ana Chung

Static spokenwords by Lesley Wood

'"TV Static Noise" c/o youtube user Sleep White Noise 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0I4mTEdAf8

"Ode to Joy" by Beethoven

Static
Listen.
Everything else is secondary
Everything else is static
Pay no attention to the rules and labels.
Reach for the core, pull out the heart 
There is green in the wasteland. 
Blue beyond gray. 
Slough off the mud covered. 
There are jewels in the mire. 
Ignore the distractions fantasies illusion.
Feel your way thru the fog. 
Hear the deep beat. Its in everything.
Listen!
Everything else is secondary. 
Everything else is static. 
Yes! 
White noise brings no joy.
Lost in the dark
All memories erased. 
Feel your way thru the fog. 
Hear the deep beat 
Your heart. 
Its in everything. 
Resonating. 
Listen! 
Everything else is secondary. 
Everything else is static.

©℗2015 by Lesley Wood
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Static

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konstantin samolovov - selected drums, objects, radio

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Pre-order now available via Imprec.com 

No Date Tapes is the first official cassette release from Harry Bertoia's tape archive and it contains two of the longest recordings yet discovered, each over 30 minutes. This cassette is packaged in a gold shell and produced on super-ferro tape for incredible analog sound. First printing of 100 copies.

Both sessions on this cassette are sourced from a collection of Bertoia tapes that were found without dates. While it's unknown when these pieces were recorded, the artist's notes are included on the packaging so it's clear how he felt about these recordings. These pieces were selected, in part, because of the contrasting opinions Bertoia had for each session.

Side A was considered by the artist to be a "good performance" which was "rich in variety" and had "good structure and fine tonality." This particular tape has aged quite well and provides clear audio insights into the sonic territory that Bertoia pioneered. 

Side B provides a fascinating sonic contrast to side A. The artist's notes suggest that he was pleased with some tonalities but the composition was "not properly developed" and contained, in Bertoia's words, "too much music." 

It's our hope that by releasing pieces like this, paired with the artist's own notes, an attentive listener can gain insight into the processes that determined the outcome of the artist's work. What does Bertoia mean by "too much music?" What is the tonality being pursued? What type of compositional structure did he find to be appealing? 

These are some of the questions we're attempting to answer as we digitize and release the pioneering sonic sculpture of Harry Bertoia.

Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

No Date Tapes

Harry Bertoia - No Date Tapes - Cassette C60 - Pre-Order

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