Sound Bath Sessions 258: Pergee Lam
Our second session was in her friend's studio nearby. It was larger and quieter, but still had some interesting sporadic construction and traffic sounds from down the street. During the recording, you can hear a faint sound of a jazz band practicing somewhere in the building. She laid her bowls out in a circle around her really fills up the left-to-right stereo image. After she strikes the bowls, she bends way down as if to dip her head in the sound of the bowls after she strikes them. Her tempo is slow and made up of short phrases before pausing to reflect. Abstract. Gentle. I feel a connection with her style of playing, as I feel I share similar interests in sound. Begins with heavy hands. Construction. Action. Dies down. Becomes very abstract. A lot of space is given to hear the tones. There was barely any cutting at all in her sessions. Her style and tones match perfectly with the space and time of the moment. Small noises do not take the listener away from the experience.
