Earth Harp

Wow!

I just don't understand how the sound of the strings is created; I know he uses rosin-covered gloves, but there's no sound box like on a conventional stringed instrument. I don't get how the earth (theater, etc.) can effectively bounce the sound.

Maybe I shouldn't have been toking in music class ... :rolleyes:
 
I'll bet her gloves are wet as she makes the sound, just like rubbing your wet fingertips around the rim of a crystal glass. There has to be a microphone mounted somewhere. And the "sound box", hmmm, what are those things attached to the strings in mile marker .45 - 1:00 (in post #1) where the camera pans out, follows the strings, and you see these things attached to the strings at different lengths? Maybe the different lengths of placement of the "things" gives the various sounds. It's an amazing effect. Beautiful but eerie at the same time.
 
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That's an idea on the sound box, Lara. Hard to tell without an exhaustive blueprint of these things.

I think on the website they mention that their gloves are covered in rosin, the same kind used on a violin bow - in fact, you can see the little showers of powder falling off their gloves as they play.

I agree - beautiful but eerie.
 
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