Voix Celeste

New solo-CD of MANU is coming out soon. It contains seven new compositions and one cover song. Voix Celeste (it's also an organ stop) is about silence and silent music. Silence is not just physical absence  of sound. It's a state of mind that music creates in the mind of the listener. Silence can stand for a definite kind of presence rather than absence. Cover picture is edited from Robert Fludd's (1574-1637) Sun de metaphysico macrosmi (Wellcome Library, Creative Commons license).

Cristal Baschet

What an magical instrument! Developed by Baschet brothers in the early 1950's. Here Peter Pringle plays his DIY version of this instrument and Ethervox Theremin. Basic sound is generated by dipping your fingers in water and rubbing them along a series of glass rods. These glass rods are connected to metal resonators that amplify the sound and create additive harmonics.



This other video shows two baschets (basic and bass versions) playing Erik Saties Gnossienne no1. Here you can see how wet those rods are. Interesting harmony between human, water, glass and metal.