Aki Tsukui was my first stop in Singapore. We recorded at her studio in Counseling Perspective in Queenstown. Aki left Japan a long time ago but remembers her grandmother playing two small metal bowls every morning and night until a few years before she passed away at age 106. This memory of the bowls was buried for many years until a sound bath she attended in Singapore let it surface again.

The intention of this recording is ‘Initiation’ and ‘New Beginnings’. I felt the session inspired courage, confidence, and motivation. She started with the crystal bowls to clear our minds. Then moved on to the shamanic drum’s low frequency to build our energy. Finally, she played a mix of metal and crystal bowls as a motivation for action. Two hits on the gong awakens us as we open our eyes and take in that first breath before that first step.

https://insig.ht/AiKbNNNcNSb


SBS on IT

Sound Bath Sessions 115: Aki Tsukui

After a quick lunch, I ventured to the Tiong Bahru area to record Noel and Fiona in their apartment The Ark Studio where they regularly hold sessions. Their large living room showcases their instruments and the many things they offer during their sessions such as cacao and teas. They both have had training from gong masters around the world and have visited gong makers in Germany. Fiona is an Innerdance disciple and regularly holds sessions in SG.

Noel mainly plays the gongs in a slow and controlled style, promoting deep focus. He intimately knows his instruments and uses new techniques to make unique sounds. This is our first recording that day.

https://insig.ht/3CByyxHeNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 130: Noel Tuan

Michelle Wu is an experienced reiki practitioner and sound therapist. She is the founder of The Extra Club where she organizes wellness retreats and events for groups and corporate clients. She invited me to record her sessions at an event she organized at the Tin Hau temple in Macau to celebrate the god’s birthday (May 1). As the rains slowly subsided that day, I took the 1-hour ferry from Central through the foggy ocean to Macau.

After the event, we recorded this track with one or two people that had stayed behind. This recording was a gong bath. Some people were having a conversation in the worker’s canteen next to the space.

https://insig.ht/KT9wDVreNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 100: Michelle Wu

Friends Francesca and Tet combined their sessions in this recording. Though their styles are different, their respect for each other’s work create a tight bond.

Tet’s style is slow and mindful. Her composition plays with the build-up and release of the tension created by the gongs and chimes. After introducing the session with chimes she slowly begins with Jupiter, eventually enveloping you with humbling feedback-like harmonics and resonances. The chimes ring again letting you take a much needed breath before Amihan is unleashed with an ear-puckering onslaught of energy and tension. The walls you built are demolished, your former self torn to shreds. As the dust settles, a shaker creates a stark contrast that softens an otherwise all metal ensemble. Finally, the simple rhythm of a tongue drum awakens a forgotten self, ready to begin again. A very simple but powerful composition.

https://insig.ht/PCDN2GHdNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 139: Tet Fojas Bachmann

I thought that Rachel's style was very moving with intimate knowledge of her instruments and how to express them in a composition. “This is how I play for myself, usually.”she says. “…People want to know what to expect sometimes, so you have to stick to a certain theme or structure. If it was more of a healing session it would be more precise, but I have more creativity because of our session, and that’s why I came out. So thank you.”

This track was a sound journey where she played both gongs and crystal bowls. I liked the bowl-gong-bowl transition creating climaxes within the story of the composition.

https://insig.ht/1cyFW4qeNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 124: Rachel Jamiro

I recorded Maddy Bandera at her space, Concentric Circles Of Healing, nestled in the Kampong Bahru conservation area. A fellow Filipino and 20-year veteran of the corporate world, she followed a calling to a different path which grew out of her own meditation and energy healing practice she had been doing before the pandemic.

Maddy saw the need of a dedicated space where people can come to experience different modalities they need for their own mental wellbeing. Everything about our sessions- the instruments, her style, the space, the experience - complemented each other completely.

The final recording began with the rain stick and Shamanic drum. The low frequency of the drum in the space was crushing me with every hit. Her two gongs overwhelmed the sonic space, swallowing every sound until it was the only thing that existed.

https://insig.ht/isxfMu7eNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 147: Maddy Bandera

After a quick lunch, I ventured to the Tiong Bahru area to record Noel and Fiona in their apartment where they regularly hold sessions. Their large living room showcases their instruments and the many things they offer during their sessions such as cacao and teas. They both have had training from gong masters around the world and have visited gong makers in Germany. Fiona is an Innerdance disciple and regularly holds sessions in SG.

The climax of our session was when they played together. Everything was just as it needed to be. Together they accent each other’s talent and inspire new directions, carrying each other through the compositions. Noel creates a thick bed of sound while Fiona plays with the humble sounds of handmade instruments and crystal bowls. Playing off each other’s sounds they created something complete. Push, pull. Tension, Release.

https://insig.ht/Rkj9ZZYeNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 162: Noel Tuan, Fiona Teo

Jacqueline Tay’s apartment is in Sengkang, the northeast part of Singapore. Her living room had no furniture save a dining table and 5 gongs. She mainly plays planetary gongs and has an array of mallets silicone mallets rain sticks, and conch shells.

Our two hours for the recording were almost up so I suggested recording a short 5-minute gong bath. She happily obliged with a quick intro and ending with her signature final strike.

https://insig.ht/2mgRpN5cNSb


Insight Timer

Sound Bath Sessions 116: Jacqueline Tay

Friends Francesca and Tet combined their sessions in this recording. Though their styles are different, their respect for each other’s work create a tight bond. They have played with and learned from Rosan and LJ whom I recorded on my visit last year. They seldom have an opportunity to play together and were happy that this recording was a reason to do so.

The recording was in Francesca’s house in a quiet residential area, so she had her entire sound object collection to use for her session, the main focus being her crystal bowl and gongs. Tet came with two gongs, chimes, and a tongue drum.

They played together in this recording, taking turns to play their individual performances on one track. Francesca started with her crystal bowls. Tet seamlessly continued with her gongs followed by Francesca and her gongs finishing with the large Sun gong presiding overall. Bird calls from the tall trees outside can be heard on the track.

https://insig.ht/u6NX82RcNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 142: Francesca DeGuzman Warnke

Friends Francesca and Tet combined their sessions in this recording. Though their styles are different, their respect for each other’s work create a tight bond. They have played with and learned from Rosan and LJ whom I recorded on my visit last year. They seldom have an opportunity to play together and were happy that this recording was a reason to do so.

Francesca’s concept for her solo session was a sound journey. I felt this was more of a hybrid composition in that it starts off as a meditative piece and transitions to a melodic performance with a handpan and tongue drum which was quite unique. She samples all of her instruments in a single improvised composition which gives a good introduction to the different instruments one may encounter in a sound bath.

https://insig.ht/6TLxy1QcNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 164: Tet Fojas Bachmann, Francesca DeGuzman Warnke

Tata invited me to record her and her friend Donna in the Peak area. The weather was warm, and the view of the south side of HK was beautiful. Donna has been a practitioner for several years and travels to China to give sessions, too.

We went inside to record these last two duets. Donna played her drum, and Tata was on her new, large Gongland gong. This track was an amazing track because the feeling of it was so visceral. Donna started the track with her drumming as Tata slowly drifted in with the gong, eventually swallowing the sounds of the drum, making it barely heard under the weight of sound. 

It sounded like putting an ear to someone’s chest and listening to their faint heartbeat underneath their skin and breathing. Touch being my primary ‘love language’, it was moving to me that a sound bath could evoke such a nostalgic, human experience that symbolizes connection and… touch.

https://insighttimer.com/sbsessions/guided-meditations/sound-bath-sessions-170-donna-chan-tata-tse

Sound Bath Sessions 170: Tata Tse, Donna Chan

After several months of working at a desk editing and uploading SBS to Insight Timer, I was glad to be recording again. Tata invited me to record her and her friend Donna in the Peak area. The weather was warm, and the view of the south side of HK was beautiful. Donna has been a practitioner for several years and travels to China to give sessions, too.

For the last recording, Donna played the singing bowls, and Tata switched to a smaller titanium gong. The pairing was perfect as the higher harmonics of the gong matched with the tones of the metal bowls. The tempo of the session was slow and calmer. Abstract. Eventually, the gong fills the space, and Donna's delicate playing accompanies the gong's harmonics. Tata's playing was never too dominant throughout the session, playing just enough to create the harmonics for Donna to play with. 

Such a wonderful improvised duet that balanced the two instruments to create a single sound.

https://insighttimer.com/sbsessions/guided-meditations/sound-bath-sessions-172-donna-chan-tata-tse

Sound Bath Sessions 172: Tata Tse, Donna Chan

Rachel Jamiro began her sound healing journey in 2019 and offers sound baths to complement her essential oil business. We recorded at Hush Haven in BF Resort Village in Las Piñas. The space is a repurposed photo studio/multi-use space with high ceilings and a perfect amount of natural light. Rachel also has recently taken up powerlifting (awesome) and sometimes works out at the gym one of the residents has established in the garage adjacent to the space. 

This recording was a gong piece with her 4 planetary gongs. The gongs had enough energy to fill the space and make use of the reverberant acoustics that amplified their feelings. There were some weight-clanging sounds that I felt had a relationship to Rachel’s powerlifting ambitions. A passing metal bell also complements the metallic theme of the gongs and offers a snapshot of the surrounding environment. I think I will keep them in.

https://insig.ht/OPwAoRUdNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 070: Rachel Jamiro

I recorded Jacqueline Tay’s sound baths at her apartment in Sengkang, the northeast part of Singapore. Her living room had no furniture save a dining table and 5 gongs. She mainly plays planetary gongs has an array of mallets and silicone mallets rain stick, and conch shell.

Our first session was a warm-up for the general audience. She blessed her gongs with ocean sounds from a conch shell before announcing the beginning of the session with a loud call that resonated the gongs. She slowly emerges from silence with a large friction mallet waking up the gongs one by one before she begins release their vocal spirits. The smaller friction mallets created higher, human-like voices. This session was dark and moving, with ominous swells swallowing and swirling us around its tumultuous sea. Until, in an instant, everything stops and we can finally take a breath. The sea disappears and we find ourselves back on land as she turns the rain stick and plays the chime harp.

https://insig.ht/HsW3pM1eNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 076: Jacqueline Tay

I ventured to the Tiong Bahru area to record Noel and Fiona in their apartment where they regularly hold sessions. Their large living room showcases their instruments and the many things they offer during their sessions such as cacao and teas. They both have had training from gong masters around the world and have visited gong makers in Germany. Fiona is an Innerdance disciple and regularly holds sessions in SG.

 Fiona uses the gongs with other instruments and her voice in a loose, expressive way. Her tribal chanting was especially invigorating and included growls and primitive vocalizations. This track is the first solo track I recorded of Fiona.

https://insig.ht/NzM7nJafNSb


Sound Bath Sessions 154: Fiona Teo

Gong bath at the fire

GongDeep Live

Kā travelled a long way by plane, bus, and car with her 25 kg meteorite gong to be with us this summer at Hybrida Fest. For this new rendering of her live set, we prepared the Liveroom with candles, scents, comfy seating, and spotlights aimed at the centred gong. As Storm guided us through her meditative journey and the gong spun, the light swept through the room and gently illuminated the faces and bodies of a contemplative crowd. As you listen to this recording, put on your best headphones, turn down the lights, close your eyes, and get a taste of the soothing sound bath we all had the chance to relish together this summer in Älvsbacka. Enjoy!

@akashicmachine

Kā Live - Hybrida Fest 2025

Produced by Shadow's Peak with the advice of Chillest, Cassi, and Orange
Given many audio clips from Purple Gecko Animations
Used some royalty free stuff or smth
Vocals by Shadow's Peak



[LYRICS]:

[Intro]
You!
Avid customer.
Are you tired of your neighbors playing loud music at night?
Buy yourself a mini gong whacker machine!
Show them who's boss.

[Verse 1]
Gong Gurus, I'm deeply ashamed to admit,
I have rung the gong.
Will you find it in your eternal resonances to forgive me?

Foolish scholar.
We forbade you to ever lay your hands upon our shiny metal asses.
Never again shall thou toucheth a gong of superior order.

(Laughter) You cannot hold me back Gong Gurus.
I always gong back.

[Verse 2]
Deep in the Egyptian pyramids.
I've heard rumors of the ancient Gongilium,
Known to make the loudest Thacklebashes.

Equipped with something like that,
No guru can tell me what I can do.


Im ba~ack!


[Verse 3]
Gaggle Land!
We got Gaggle Woo(d)!
Come on and join our Gaggle Hood!
Hold hands and-

Shut up Glaggle.
I want your Glaggle-Wares.

Glaggles are happy to oblige! (Did he just call himself a slur?)
All we need is your left eye!


This is not tech.
I forgot the entire gong in Egypt.


IT'S TIME!


[Chorus]
My gongs are ringing!
The SUPER MACHINE!
The pain I'm bringing,
And the songs that I'm singing!
The gongs aren't gonging!
They leave me longing!
And my dih is growing!
SUPER MACHINE!

[Outro]
Do we deserve destruction?
Well.
The Gongs deem it so.
We ring as one.


I'M GONGING!



Made on December 7th 2025

SUPER MACHINE

Immersive sound. Authentic connection. Inspired by Asia.

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Psychedelic Ambient influence, Sound Baths, Sound Therapy, Relaxation and Meditation. These sounds are intended to trigger your relaxation response, to De=stress and break on through the flesh spirit barrier. To use brain wave frequencies, Healing and Natural frequencies to bring inner peace, happiness, focus and spirituality. The only intention of these sounds are good intentions. Peace Be.. Enjoy..   

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