The sound recording is of a stone lithophone played slowly with no succinct order or melody. The unique stone lithophone was built for percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie to play a performance to celebrate the opening of the Olympic sailing events in 2012.

The stone Lithophone, built on site from stones that ring, explore the distinctive range of tones, harmonics and sustained reverberation found in the geological structures of the different quarries on Portland. In quarries from Pietra Santa to Tamil Nadu the stones are traditionally rung to check the purity of the block. This purity can clearly be heard in their transcendent sounds.


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