I have previous experimented with bowing various metal objects to reveal interesting resonances, and since buying myself a cello bow, I decided to attempt bowing some cymbals. I decided to do it in the most reverberant space I could access, the stairwell in MHT. I recorded with a matched pair of 414’s in the mid/side config, with the Neumann at a distance on omni. The mixture of the two has made for a great sounding creepy stinger that i’ve used in the ambience of Taphobos. I wanted the ambience in the main church to be a little more hyper-real, so I decided to add in these intermittent screaming metal sounds.

The recordings can be found here:

(LO1)