Sound Bath Sessions 084: Sum Chong & Joey Mok

When I recorded them, Sum and Joey are quite new to the sound bath and spiritual healing community. They gave workshops where they use chakra cards and sound bath, either playing a tongue drum or singing bowls. For these sessions they played both. The sessions felt direct and simple, unfiltered by the complexities that come from experience.

For this recordings they tried a new style and coordinated their improvised playing with each other in an abstract piece with broken melodies and contrasting tempos. Each phrase separated with a common struck note. Because of this structure, I felt this session was more of a performance rather than a sound bath, though I am still trying to define the differences between the two. The piece ends with an amazing final phrase with the first note struck at exactly the right moment with exactly the right tone. Beautiful. I think they are on their way to an interesting style and technique and look forward to hearing their future sessions.