Re: OT: singing bowls (WAS Anthropomorphism CURSE UPON Damian Stewart)

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Bad-ass!

How do you mic yourself - pretty much like any vocal tune? Or a mix of 
mic on the bowl and one on the mouth?

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
> I feel a little sheepish saying this, but I've been
> using my mouth to comb filter tibetan singing bowls and
> brass candy dishes for ten years in my shows.
>
> No one else mentioned it so I thought I'd give myself some credit.
>
> It, by the way,  doesn't take a lot of technique to do it.
>
> Gong the bowl with your thumb............put your mouth up as close as 
> possible
> to the surface of the resonating object and then make your mouth go 
> through
> all the shapes of the vowels (which, in essence, amounts to a comb 
> filtering of the frequencies).
> Certain frequencies of bowl will work better than others.
>
> Brass Candy dishes work extremely well with this technique, as do 
> Stainless steel salad mixing bowls.
> You can also use this technique with really  thin glass mixing bowls.
>
> Some fifteen years ago, I produced a singer songwriter,   Paul Wagner, 
> in a song called
> "Full Moon Glow".    In the chorus,   we found a large glass crystal 
> bowl whose resonant
> frequency was very close to the fundamental of the Chorus.
> I recorded a track where I merely gonged the bowl and then mouthed the 
> words
> "Full Moon Glow"  in time to the vocals and mixed it in.   It gave the 
> track a really eerie effect.
>
> rick walker