The Day Church Bells Became Aware Of Their Profane Hearts And Decided Not To Sing For The Glory Of God Any Longer
Today I realisized a piece of music I had in mind for several months. For the recording I used a small digital voice recorder hanging 15 cm over the hang’s surface. Afterwards I utilized Power Lame to convert the wma file of the voice recorder into a wav file. Then I cut it with WaveLab Lite, a pretty little program being part of Steinberg’s Cubasis VST, and added a bass boost. Finally the wav file was converted into mp3 with Power Lame. In view of this minimalist “studio technique”, the sound quality of the recording seems not good but passably satisfying.
“The Day Church Bells Became Aware Of Their Profane Hearts And Decided Not To Sing For The Glory Of God Any Longer” is a piece of program music and follows the idea of minimal music.
I played it on a hang with the pygmy scale. It consists of a five tone pattern for the left and a four tone pattern for the right hand played against each other. Although the patterns aren’t changed during the seven minutes and thirty seconds the music takes, they open a wide sound space, in which listeners can experience a lot of minimal musical events that seem to come from nowhere and vanish into nowhere – and of course hear the church bells ringing, who decided, that after hundreds of years finally it’s time for singing their powerfull sounds not for the glory of god but for the musical experience of mankind only.
Here you can download the mp3 file.
Listen to it in a higher quality recording version too.
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 am
Hallo Michael,
das ist wirklich sehr genial. Irgendwie hypnotisierend. Weiter so!
Viele Grüße. Frank
January 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
vorrei sapere come poter comprare lo strumento e dove.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Ci è un articolo inglese e un articolo tedesco su come comprare un hang.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
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January 10th, 2010 at 1:51 am
- a lovely piece of music…timeless, calming, inspiring…