Early Rock Gong Music
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Possibly a hundred thousand years ago humans started playing rocks. Some of those were monolithic big stones which sounded when hit in specific spots and others would have been hand held stones which allowed humans to do circle dances and used the age old music making principle of "One Person, One Note". This kind of ensemble I believe was one of the first wonderfully designed human teaching tools as it makes clear to the performer the two main ideas that led to the survival of the human race:
- an individual is nothing without the group, just one note...
- the group needs each individual's creative input to survive, so no good playing the same rhythm pattern as anyone else.
These stones were used in workshops and a performance led by Pedro Espi-Sanchis in 2013 at the Origins Centre, University of Witswatersrand, South Africa.
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Help I'm stuck in a gong youtube wormhole and I can't stop
That beat at the end is lit lol
So, basically stone xylophones :)
@davidbeddoe6670
6 жыл бұрын
xylostones
@shawnhollahan590
3 жыл бұрын
lack of awe and reverence is a sign you’re soulless
@kimberleybeissel747
3 жыл бұрын
Xylo = wood, litho = stone. So these are lithophones.
I have often wondered if the click sound in many southern African languages had its origins in the sound of rock gongs.
So this is what jeremy clarkson does these days?
@Concodroid
3 жыл бұрын
I didn't expect to find that here
Hmmm!! Human music!
@emanueltapia6501
4 жыл бұрын
Rick and morty fan? Lol
@khasiodron
3 жыл бұрын
i like it :-)
@ramdas363
2 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed perceiving it with my sound receptors.
The first dude is in the Blue Man Group gauranteed!!
I wonder why music has been with us from the earliest of times.
Needs more cowbell..
@Alusnovalotus
4 жыл бұрын
BigHossHackworth didn’t exist
@najeyrifai293
4 жыл бұрын
You mean mammothbell?
That was lovely to watch.
Rock music
Ba dink dink dinky, ba dink dink clack!
Living the dream.
i'm listening
There are also the sonic characteristics of where the rocks were played to be considered.
@MajesticSkywhale
6 жыл бұрын
should've tried it in a cave for the reverb
@flamencoprof
6 жыл бұрын
@ Erik Van der Zee I have heard claims that some caves, or even megalithic sites were utilised/crafted with sonics in mind, err ears.
Music with rocks in it
@chrishart7300
6 жыл бұрын
The powerful depth of this Discworld reference right here.
This is really cool
💖💖💖
Ah yes fellow rock gong sommelier
Who knew Hannibal Burress played tribal music?!
Quick someone get Timberland.
I'm beginning to feel like a rock gong rock gong 😂
Superzaico
rock gong or pestle and mortar? If the two small stones used to play the rock gong (kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKVkpsywg73gm8Y.html) are replicas of stones found near the rock gong that is now in the British Museum collection then they also closely resemble the pestles found in association with any FIRST American mortar found in the lower Mississippi valley. Would a careful consideration of the rock gong’s purpose also include that of a communal mortar?
needs an echo and some thrumming vocal mantra chanting as an accompaniment to the stone gongs
1:11 is that YYZ?
@aveoxus1139
6 жыл бұрын
really does sound like it haha! kzread.info/dash/bejne/fpikr9KfoJCwj6w.html
@cobalt._.27
6 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
Hey would I be able to use this sound for a video series I'm making. It's a stop motion show about gnomes and I just need some music made with rocks
1:25 when it starts
Does yeat have competition
What type of rock is it?
Now play Popcorn on them!
Does anyone know what these rocks are called or where one could obtain them online?
@thomashenry4798
6 жыл бұрын
Ryan W any rock with a high iron or metal content will produce ringing tones such as this. Red rocks are indicative of iron.
@SilvaDreams
6 жыл бұрын
Nah there are other types that exist, like some that come from the Nile river area are diorite which are full of quartz and feldspar (natural crystals) which can make a some rather nice harmonics and a single bolder with an angled break can give multiple notes.
lol this is South africa
ME PLAY ROCK OOGAH OOGAH