Soniccouture – Glass Works 2.0 (KONTAKT)

Glass Works includes 3 extremely unusual and rare musical instruments that use glass to generate sound: Le Cristal Baschet, a glass harmonica, and a set of Cloud Chamber Bowls.

Just locating these instruments was a challenge in itself – the third in the collection, the Cloud Chamber Bowls, proved so elusive that after a lot of research and enquiries, we realized that if we wanted to sample some, we would have to build a set by ourselves . The first two instruments – Le Cristal and the Glass Armonica, as strange and beautiful as each other – required us to make a trip to Paris, to the studio of Thomas Bloch.

 

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