End of the Year Music
Three Hang songs to say good bye to the year 2008, all played on a Low Hang Pygmy, high voice. Klick on the pictures to listen.
Blog Category: Music / Musik
Three Stages of the PANArt Hang History
This video features a first generation Zhi Diao from 2003, a Low Hang in Pygmy Bb High Voice from 2005 and a second generation Hang from 2007.
Listening to this arrangement you are able to follow the journey of the Hang through the years from a steelpan like percussion instrument played with the hands to a sound sculpture going beyond the scope of percussion. This shows why the Hang Makers don’t like their creation being called a “hang drum“.
Thanks Frank for filming and cutting the video!
Church Bell’s Sound Improvement
Nine days ago I recorded “The Day Church Bells Became Aware Of Their Profane Hearts And Decided Not To Sing For The Glory Of God Any Longer” with a small voice recorder. Now my new recording equipment, a Rode NT1-A condenser microphone and an ART Tube MP preamp, has arrived, my first recording atempt was to produce a higher quality version of this hypnotic piece of music.
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.
The Hang CD Index
The Hang CD Index is a directory listing CDs containing music played with the Hang, with links to sources of supply and sound examples.
You are invited to contribute to the Index by writing a comment with information on CDs with hang music not listed in the index yet.
Since End of April 2010 you will find “The Hang CD Index”
in the Hang Library.
