Sound Bath Sessions 230: Jassinta Lee

Jassinta has been playing singing bowls for about 3 years. She played her metal bowls with some of Christina Shiu's prototype crystal bowls. You can hear the connection she has with her metal bowls in the confident sounds and tempos that she is used to playing. She carried her experience to the crystal bowls by using interesting ways to play with them.

In this recording, she used both metal and crystal bowls. She played her metal bowls like they were old friends, moving the sound around her with ease. I loved the high-pitched sound she made by gripping one of her smaller bowls while swiping it. When she transitioned to the crystal bowls, its gentle sounds emerged from the bed of the metal bowls wavering drone. Jassinta made a sharp, striking sound with the bowls that I had never heard before. It had an amazing texture and unlike the smooth sounds that you would normally expect from a crystal bowl. When I asked her about the sound, she told me she was hitting the bowls with her hand.