How to play an ancient rock gong
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The British Museum invited Dr Cornelia Kleinitz, an archaeologist specialising in rock art, and Liam Williamson, a modern rock drummer, to try and discover how a rock gong might have been played. This was the result.
Rock gongs are a type of lithophone that were used for thousands of years in several parts of Africa. They may have been used as part of rituals, to signal other people, or as a form of expression. Although they look like plain boulders, they have a hollow, metallic sound when struck due to the composition of the rock.
This film was created with the African rock art image project which is supported by the Arcadia Fund.
For more information visit: britishmuseum.org/africanrockart
This is the only genre of music that can truly be called "classic rock"
It seems "heavy rock" to me
Ancient rock
I love this puns.
Classical Rock
True rock
this is real rock, not like the garbage you hear nowadays
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There is True Kult.... And then, there is True Rock
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@@seanowbo lmao good one
Now this is what people want to vibe to when they say they're "born in the wrong generation"
KZhead is really pushing the whole 'return to monke' thing with these recommendations.
monke brain like rock go smash
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As it should be
LOL!
Everyone is watching return to monke videos!
Ancient bassplayer: - "Dude, I'm not moving your kit again."
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This hit far too close to home. lol
Is this why no one helps the drummer now? Lol
It was really tough to find good roadies in those days.
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Only 15000 BCE kids will remember
GINNVNGAGAP LoooL this is too nostalgic
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Ohhh I’ve had this before wooger accidentally threw it at a beast. The beast ate it.
Lolwtf
Was expecting a comment like this lol
"what instrument do you play?" "rock" "that's genre. i asked what instrument." "rock"
I am Ugg. I play notched stick. Rock player gets all the pvssy. This make Ugg mad.
Interestingly, there are rare examples of stone ideophones (rock gongs) that have made their way into more recent music history.... Just not in the Western world. There are stone marimbas in Africa - though wood is far more common. There's also an ancient Chinese instrument which is tuned to the pentatonic scale - all rocks hung on a rack - the Bianzhong. It is played in certain traditional Chinese music, usually alongside a Chinese carillon.
@@ems7623 stoner rock :v defo extremely interesting 🥁🗿
if you play the temple blocks in an orchestra you can say wood and get away with it
It would be hilarious if these were just used to work leather or something.
A young artist and an experienced archaeologist, ten thousand years from now, trying to figure out how to play an anvil XD
Yeah! ... interesting possibility. Hummm. One thing I’ve noticed, archeologists some times jump into conclusions of the use of some artifact not knowing that much about the culture they are researching. It’s as if they want to ne the ones who gave the use instead of leaving the door open to other possibilities for latter findings where they’ll find or understand a bit more about it.
@@mitsuomits9077 I think there are those types in any field of science. There was a family in Turkey whose kids all walked on all fours and some highly regarded geneticists and others jumped to the conclusion that they had some missing link gene. They really just had abnormal cerebellums.
@@Skenderbeuismyhero That's true. And about the Turkish family, I think I saw a documentary about them, are they the ones that can walk with their knees almost all straight ( if I remember well)?.
and even then the rocks would still sound. and since most crafts are rhythm based, working these stones would most likely still generate music. check "FOLI (there is no movement without rhythm)" to get an idea of that... our societies are tuned into very different kinds of rhythms than most other who ever shared this planet, yet even our machines are music
Just imagining walking through the primordial jungle at night, and in the distance you see the light of a fire and hear a caveman laying down a sick-ass stone-core drum & bass beat.
*When the ayahuasca kicks in*
And these ancient ravers have shrooms and complain about the scene being better last year
"...tink-tink-tink, God save Queen! Fascist regime! Tink-tink-tink..."
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@@jamesmayle4712 Did Jesus ever rock on a rock gong?
*caveman see’s this* :why they beat table?
"Ug... It called _rock_ It be big some day"
@Brian Holtzman **Caveman sees comment** :what's picture?
@@DanJuega **Caveman sees computer monitor playing video** What this thing? Light come out! Me see mini people! Why can't me go inside?? **caveman destroys monitor out of curiosity** It magic! Light go away!
Caveman: uh it do be fire
Lol
But the sounds would be TOTALLY different with the rocks on rocks rather than the tinny sound of the metal shelf it’s on.
I suppose even if they were mounted more authentically they'd still sound a bit different in that room than they would in a cave or wherever . . . but those metal stands though? I guess --I've-- _we've all_ got more important things to worry about *_`: \_*
no the rocks really do sound like metal when you bang them...no matter what you set them on
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@@umbertopaggi3006 ^this video is enlightening. I thought the metal mounting bracket was affecting the sound too, but that video suggests otherwise.
I think its actually the "town bell" and not a musical instrument. It could be heard for miles and used to call people in for dinner or worship.
They should record him playing a loop and just have it quietly going in that room.
Top idea, would be soothing and interesting. Not to mention a paycheck for a young artist.
"who the fuck is banging the stones"
Perfect ambiance.
That's a great idea, it would really help bring the exhibition to life 👌
after reading, im disappointed they didnt...
Museum sign: "Please, do not touch" This guy:
They don’t make them like they used to anymore
XD made my day
Reliced vintage gear is always so expensive.
A Netflix Nerd Girl now you're the 3rd :)
A Netflix Nerd Girl lmao why so salty? It's a funny joke
A Netflix Nerd Girl looks like he got 500+ more likes than you by saying something
Thanks for the tutorial, just got my giant rock gong and had no idea how to play. This one saved my rock gong band
Bangin
Lol
I got a newb one from Amazon for £39.99, and am starting out. Those Franks won't even know what hit them.
@@neilwilson5785 them flint stones are such a strange family you know wanna play boulder ball?
Bang a Gong
Gotta love how they speculate over how these people played the music, one handed, two handed, squatting, seated, Meanwhile I'm just thinking, they hit it, it made sound, create a beat and play until you get bored.
They're trying to figure out what the culture was around it, though. There's a certain way you play a guitar, for example, and it's very recognizable and part of our cultural image of a guitar. It would be neat to know if our distant ancestors had a cultural image of a rock gong player. They're studying how our ancestors thought of the rock gong, not just how they used it.
Very insightful, Tobias - I can see why you became an anthropologist
Hey, that's just what I do with soda bottles.
That’s why you’re not a scientist.
imagine if this guy was actually not allowed to be there and he just started smacking the rocks while the camera people were making documentaries
pioneers used to play these babies for hours
woah ok Im glad i stumbled upon this comment 😂
thank you
Gimme that pizza!!!!
And they're in great shape!
It’s not a boulder, it’s a slab ;)
As a stone carver I know the ring of good marble, but outside a museum in Bangkok I came across an ancient stone gong and just rapping it with my knuckles produced a bell tone. I was amazed.
certain igneous rocks seem to have enough tension to ring when struck
I bet the rap was lit 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humans millions of years ago: banging on rocks Humans now: banging on rocks on KZhead
Humans didn't exist millions of years ago. Just FYI.
@@Olly676 Modern humans didn't. But similar creatures did, and I'm sure they banged on rocks for fun too
@@ElectricAlien577 I don't think there's any evidence that they did? But sure, whatever
@@Olly676 ‘humans’ as in homosapiens have existed for roughly 300,000/400,000 years, but evolution is much more complicated than that and the earliest known human relative is anamensis’ around 4 million years ago.
@@jacobshabir2722 Recent estimates tend to place the emergence of modern humans somewhat more recently than that (see, for example, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6736881/ ), and arguably all cellular life is a known human relative, no? Our hominid ancestors were using stone tools up to a few million years ago, though, true. Were they doing it because they enjoyed the sound it made? Who knows, maybe.
There are very similar gongs still around in Ethiopia at some of the older churches. Usually they are suspended from a small tree or something and give off pretty clear sounds.
The video really doesn't do the noise justice. I had an opportunity to play some of these on my uncle's farm in South Africa, they were surprisingly resonant and sounded closer to a wooden xylophone.
Is there something special about these rocks? Is it just that they are the right shape for playing? Thanks :)
Travis Jones just a guess, but perhaps the high silica content might contribute to it's resonance
Jon Dunham most commonly diorite ( I googled it)
Finn Driver Cool
They sound like garbage because they're in a museum. The acoustics of that room is atrocious. Imagine that played in an open field or a cave.
Long ago, jamming together must surely have been compulsive and addictive. People craved the bond that arises from collaborative effort. That was the success of people in all endeavors, collaboration and improvisation. Jamming is as Human as it gets.
Yes, I love this point of view!!! Connection through shared experience and collective consciousness! Small communities of people who shared their lives with one another and knew loyalty. People who worked hard for the collective and felt that connection 😌
True
well, whales and birds (and probably some other animals) also like a good jam, it's not exclusively human but still...
later the guitar was invented and so created greed and selfishness 😂😂😂 now everyone is a show off they don't want to do teamwork...
We are a song
The Maori mastered Nephrite, and used the stone in a hollowed out Totara tree. A large green stone cylinder was hung inside. A slit was cut on the side of the tree. A green stone club was used to hit the slit and a gong sound would resonate for miles. One used be on one tree hill in Auckland New Zealand. It was cut down over a hundred years ago. It was thought it was already dead. But in fact it was a giant gong.
I’m curious how they came to the conclusion that this was used as a gong and not possibly just a surface to crack buts or grind flower or something like that
Thats what i thought dude
She mentioned that they found small amounts of wear all over the rock, which wouldn’t have been the case if it were used to grind stuff, plus the wear pattern of a grinder is very different from hitting it like a drum, so they would’ve been able to tell if that was it’s purpose. Also, you don’t really need a rock that big in order to crack nuts or grind flower, the job can be done with much smaller and more transportable stones.
A lof of anthropology is an hoax.
I'm not trying to be a nitpick here dearies but it's Flour*
Obviously there's speculation here, but I think the position and wear pattern of the stones (vs known wheat grinding rocks) but it seems entirely reasonable that grinding stones led to drum stones once someone noticed the change in pitch.
not indie enough for me
this comment is under rated
I only listen to Mongolian throat singing
drhoneybadger thats so mainstreem! Me i only listen to yaks mating.
best comment
Not old school enough for me.
I'm only in my 40s and I think Neolithic music is the best music ever.
So if you were 80 you would like them more ???
@@kaptainplanet7203 you’re dumb
I don't believe you sorry.
What's next?
@@urdumb2772 username checks out
"What's your favorite type of music?" Rock. No literally. *Rock.*
A tip on the Pt-br translation: use "tocar" instead of "jogar", "jogar" is about playing a game while "tocar" is playing an instrument.
wonder if they got that wrong in Spanish too
How the hell can this be an instrument while mayonnaise isn't?
because it’s a fucking house
What do you mean "mayonnaise isn't"?
Mayonnaise is always an instrument
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@@meganlodon thank you!
"How do we know this rock was used as an actual rock gong?" Easy: we just flip it over and see the ancient Ludwig drum manufacturing company logo, duh.
Wade Guidry 😂🤣😂🤣🤟🏻 “im rick harrison and this is my rock shop”
I know this is a reference from somewhere
These were produced by Remo.
@@nerychristian those hand rocks were made by Vic Firth 😂😂
Hahaha that was a good one😄
It's fascinating how integral music has always been to mankind. We always have found a way to make sounds and rhythms, even with just rocks. I think that's cool.
It would take an archeologist with an open mind to really discover the music in the stones. How they were mounted or placed originally would have a huge effect on how much they resonated. The size of and weight of the mallet object and the reflectivity of the surrounding area. It would be interesting to let a musician have a go at it without any input on how it is thought to have been played. Allow them to find the tones in the material. Super interesting.
And modern drummers are trying to call their kits “vintage” smh 😤😤😤
I would probably accidentally break it
Osama Bin Laden lmao
Damn, what kind of arms you got on you to break a 30cm slab of rock.
Mountaindew ii
Graknorke It’s just that I’m a rock breaker, and my father before me was a rock breaker, and his father before him, and his father before him....it’s in my blood to break rocks
Mountaindew "probably accidentally"
I would want to see an uncut session of him just messing around with the rock gong
I really didn't expect to end this day on a rock gongcert.
Rock is still the best long term data storage medium we have.
"Written in stone" is no joke
I don't know, glass and DNA are both pretty promising
@@Not_actually_a_commie DNA changes SO EASILY, and never looked promising to anyone without black UV proof cryo storage units. Glass breaks WAY TOO EASY. Neither look promising.
@@D-Vinko I don't know if synthetic DNA is subject to the same changes as the organic stuff. To my knowledge, mutations come from transcription errors, so we'd only have a problem if we tried to copy the DNA (and even then, in a controlled environment we may be able to either fix the error or start over). Glass is actually much more durable than you would think, and stone is much more fragile.
It's all about crystal, more specifically, quartz memory. I won't post a link incase it's scrubbed, but if one pastes the following into a search engine the article should come up: '...There might now be a more elegant solution after a team reports how they managed to cram 360TB worth of five-dimensional (5D) digital data onto a small quartz disk. The researchers claim the data is stable for as long as 13.8 billion years at temperatures up to 190 degrees Celsius.' 🤙🏻
“We even know a few of the songs that the first people played, they left their demo tape underneath and called themselves the Rolling Stones”
Ugh.
Derek Wall 😂😂😂
the band got off to a rough start - until they took the corners off
Just the Stones?
Keith Richards original name was 'grog grog".
what if they bring back the cave man and they just be like “nah thats just a rock man”
i love the sound it makes! i could totally see myself disappointing my prehistoric parents when I tell them I want to be a rock "gonger" instead of a hunter like my dad
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Being gonger is not a real job. You will go to the hunt with your dad tomorrow, young man. I dont want any complaints, end of the discussion.
"Ma'am?? Ma'am!! Please stop!!" Me, jamming on King Tut's sarcophagus: "it's ok, it's fine. I been at this 15 years."
Thanks a lot, now I've got Steve Martin's King Tut stuck in my head. yay. "... Born in Arizona, moved to Babalonia. King Tut"
I know right 😂
Waiting for Toto Africa being played on this
me: "time to sleep" youtube: BUT ROCK GONG
Scientist - we are trying to figure out how the would have played then Dummer - hold my sticks
Plot twist. It's just a normal rock
@@joeykangaroo8396 That's a wooden shelf that's painted grey my dude.
Omaha Joe and were just a normal organic accident.
@@cooliodiablo6117 the British Museum doesnt have 600 lb caveman instruments on "wooden shelves" my dude.
@@joeykangaroo8396 there is no way the components of the rock make it sound like a metal. That's the sound of the metal base the rock is set on.
@@AnaVerona_ you clearly never played with rocks, or pottery tiles, same ringing high pitched sound
Rock music.
k
Classic Rock.
The Original ""ROCK" Music"!
Finally!!
experimental folk noise?
Well, how neat is that! I love, love learning about human culture, and in particular deep, pre-historical human behaviors. This video was right up my alley. Thanks for the content.
Finally! I’ve had this thing on me for about 7000 years and I’m finally able to play it
Yes. Finally a good instructional video to play my rock gongs
If she hasn't played the rock gong before...she's too young for you bro!
Ok, this is super cool and awesome! This kind of archeology and art is just amazing! Marvellous!!
“I HEAR THE ROCKS ECHOING TONIGHT, but she hears only whispers of some quiet monke”
It sounds to me like most of the sound comes form those metal stands that hold the rocks :/
Nurpus That's exactly where it's coming from.
can't believe more people haven't noticed that
without the stands it would just be like beating you living room wall. I doubt these were used for musical purposes
read the description c:
If you are interested though give her paper a read on the Sudan rescue-archaeological dig if you want a bit more info :-) s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/30514902/Kleinitz2004_RockArtSudan_IshashiSurvey_Sudan-Nubia8.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1526989357&Signature=ftrwW2aaTwiqLSZ1nW%2FR%2Ft1xQMs%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DRock_art_and_rock_gongs_in_the_Fourth_Ni.pdf
Great. Eight minutes of hearing them talk about how ancient people hit these rocks, and virtually no playing of the rock. And when he does play, people are talking over it
I was thinking exactly this. I want to hear him play uninterrupted.
@@rorqualmaru ik and she even invited him back @britishmuseum give us more!
Thank you British Museum for making this video so that we get to hear what these ancient instruments sound like. It’s always tantalizingly frustrating to see old instruments lying silently in a museum case. I always want to hear what they sound like!
I’m trying to figure out just how they came up with an instrument from this. It seems more likely that these would have been used for making/sharpening tools. That seems way more logical than an instrument.
"What instrument do you play?" "Its complicated..."
“I’m in a rock band, we’re pretty underground”
Now that was some real hard rock
Aaron Nako oh no you didnt
Civilian: "Ah, they blew up my house again. Why do we have wars? All I see are ruins" RockDrummer: "I see potential"
They are amazing!!! I would love to hear them playing in their natural inherent environment for echoing off the land!!! Mountain ears hear different than plains.
Progressive as fuuuuuck
*regressive rock
He's white, by the law of the progressive, wouldn't this be some kind of racism?
@@enizle5 progressive in the musical context...
What band would use these? Maybe Thank you Scientist?
All of these know-it-alls in this comment section saying that these weren't musical instruments annoy me to no end. First, these archaeologists obviously know what the difference between wear and tear from grinding up grain, building, and other such things, so clearly they wouldn't make another completely different explanation for the hell of it. Second, and probably most importantly, rock gongs are still made and played in some parts of the world today, so they would clearly have a reference point.
It's well known, that these "experts" have come up with utterly ludicrous bullshit over the years, that have later been proved to be absolutely false. The general problem with people who start to study history or archeology as a major, is that their motivation is often politically biased to begin with, not objective desire for increasing knowledge. People who actually have actual desire for increasing knowledge as motivation, usually study an actual science instead. Anyone who disagrees with this: 1) Has never studied at a university for significant period of time 2) Is poor judge of character 3) Is part of the problem Or some combination of those 3 Blind belief in authority is willful ignorance.
So what you're saying is Libtards are full of shit, and they lie :P
How do you know someone's political affiliation? Also, liberals won the US Revolutionary War and Civil War, as well as WWII.
Using cliches is a way of avoiding thinking for yourself.
Erilaz could also try analysing "the general problem" with himself and others like him. "people who actually have actual desire...usually study an actual..." What???? Erilaz you cannot even speak and yet you want to criticise ALL archaeologists that EVER existed. Please go back to the school that told you you passed and get your money back :)
Cavemen: "that's that real music right there"
But mom we have Rock concert at home. rock concert at home: :)
Person - Hits rock Random guy - oh wow
It really does take the right person to come along to actuate on theory-craft to bring something like this to life. Liam was definitely the right person. Had this only been explained to me, I may have doubted it, as the direct evidence seems slim for saying that is absolutely what their purpose was. But seeing and hearing Liam actually go at those reinforces the idea a lot in my mind.
Falling in love with a percussionist served to make for a new way of hearing music. Thank you from a light sculptor in the Show Me state, for sharing this history of music. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. You gotta read the words "Tulips on an organ," to know a person is talking about flowers and music. The words may take on a different visual meaning in the listener's mind's eye.
I always love to hear some good rock music
would love to hear some recordings of them in their original environment....to hear the sound play of other surfaces in the vicinty; doing it in the museum gives you a basic notion, but the acoustics of the space are inevitably going to be strikingly different..
The original environment is meters deep underwater now, a dam was built.
I wonder if they have much sound at all when not mounted to steel reverberation chambers.
@@charlesalexanderable look up rock gongs. There are videos of people playing these type of rocks. Those aren’t metal reverberation chambers, they’re just mounting frames. They sound like they do acoustically because they contain high iron content.
A lot of this evidence seems extremely circumstantial....
@@absoluteunit8628 I'm not opposed to looking at research and, as a professional musician with a degree in vocal performance, am VERY interested in the origins of music. I'm human so I'm wrong all the time and am totally ok with being proven wrong again, but this just seems really vague. Also, why the name calling? What about what you know about me makes me a whore?
Sorry
@@absoluteunit8628 I appreciate your apology. Thank you.
Damn, seems like I found something interresting in this vulgar burial ground that is the youtube comment section. Bit more digging is needed though, because the find seems incomplete. A piece of the comments seems to have gone missing. We'll probably never know what it said exactly....
@@paulagebhardt6018 It seems like our search has come to an end. After ten, long, sleepless minutes the missing piece to our lifeswork has been found. We can now die peacefully. Spread this story, of heroes and fallen commenters amongst your friends so that it can live on...forever...
Back in my days we had real music. Then they started hitting at the edges
Cavemen beating a rock: Uhg... So primitive Modern man beating a rock: ART
I'm less annoyed by the cynical people in the comment section and more sad that they seem to have lost all sense of wonder and excitement about the possibilities for good things this world has to offer.
Everything's subjective, hence why we have opinions. If it weren't that way, we'd all be the same carbon copy of each other. Which is clear to everyone. They didn't assume anything, simply disappointed everything is a rebuttle and an argument not just "hey thats pretty cool" or even if you don't like it simply "eh im not interested *click*".
I had a really shitty day today because of witnessing the incredible negativity and stupidity of people for multiple times today. Your comment cheered me up, reminded me of the other type of people out there. Thanks man.
This is not about taste it's about curiosity. That's how people have been indoctrinated by their governments, they don't think, they don't go beyond anything they just see a rock, they don't see our ancestors expressing themselves and the beginning of music. People are uneducated and when presented with something new they don't understand (or that doesnt have a touchscreen on it), instead of being CURIOUS about it they dismiss it as stupid and not worthy of their time. You only need to see how a kid would react to this and how an adult that has been through the "education" system does.
Dliess Mgg thank you for saying exactly how I felt I agree but you know what there are some people that still have Wonder in their heart I'm one of them and I'm glad to know that you are too
Why does everyone have to be a skeptic lmao...
But could they play smoke on the water?
2000 years ago.."I'm bored, I'm gonna sit here and hit this rock for awhile..."
More than 2000 years ago. 2000 years ago was when Jesus was around and all that. The pyramids were made a few thousand years before that. They had flutes and even some version of the guitar
@@zzodysseuszz ancient greeks even had organs
@@shneancy220 yep. The Hebrews had some very interesting instruments like the Oboe and some variants of the modern guitar.
2000 years ago ? are you serious ?
I remember back when my grandparents were being chased by Styracosaurus and end up bringing back rocks that sound good aahh good times
do you think that the leather drum was met with opposition when invented? i mean, if these were used ceremoniously once they invented the drum with a completely different tone people would've felt it was out of place and maybe there was some people who spent a significant amount of time learning to produce the right sound on the stones, and the techniques didn't exactly translate to the drums so they bashed it as dumb, inefficient or a children's toy back in the day. idk, just a random thought i had.
Diego R. Huh good question
It seems perfectly understandable for me. Just like people today claim that music sounds better on vinyl than on CD. But eventually leather drums would come out on top, because of their easy mobility.
If your ceremony calls for rock gongs, you use rock gongs, nor reason leather drums would win out since a ceremony does not need to be efficient. Keep in mind historical people might travel ridiculous distances to visit religious places. In france people would climb tje steps of mont sant michele on their knees and in tibet people will prostrate themselves for the full circuit of the Potala Palace and sometimes even the journey to and from the Potala Palace even.
A pilgrammage is all about the journey and making an effort. A ceremony on the other hand is a purely symbolic act and can (and will) be fitted for the situation.
JackhammerJesus that is a somewhat modern atitude, historically many people would have viewed the ritual al having very real importance. I should also point out that people still use rock gongs in some places so clearly leather drums did not completely replace them.
I would have expect we would hear the actual sound these rocks would produce in context where they were played instead of the metallic sound of the shelves holding them.
+Pedro “Dalannar” Marques That was a bit of a shame, however I did still get a sense for the method of play, and the ways in which sound variation were achieved, so the video certainly lived up to its name. That said, I would have liked to hear the instrument, if not in its natural habitat, in a habitat that allowed its sound to come through more authentically.
Are you a fan of Jean Auel's Earth's Children series? I don't recall any rock gongs from the books, but I would love to see how a mammoth skull drum was played. :)
Never heard of them, might check them out though :)
Kendawg McAwesome It's an old series written by an amateur archeologist. It's fascinating, she completely reconstructed Stone Age Europe. I asked the OP because "Dalannar" is the name of one of the minor characters. :)
LagiNaLangAko23 Haha! Yup, that's the one. :)
Hi! My name is ot’geth’tsu, my ancestors played these stones called che’ bal’gi. This translates roughly to “announcing sound’ when we approached a settlement we played kl’p kl’p which let people know who we were and our intent❤
How to play an ancient rock gong: You bang on it. That's it.
**imagines cavemen screwing on top of the rock**
Friend : Do you play music? Me : Yes, i play rock! Friend : Rock music? Nice! What instrument do you play? Me : A Rock
That’s a nice boulder.
That's amazing, I never knew rock gong's existed before this, thank you.
Hi, the right translate of "play a instrument" in brazil is "tocar" like "how to play drums" the right translate will be "como tocar bateria" Nice video btw 😀
I believe ancient objects like these were meant for continued use to keep the ancients alive and learn more about them. I’m so grateful to have experienced this modern drummer bring life to ancient music long ago. Thank you for not keeping this relic untouched, there is purpose to these objects and they deserve to be treated with respect and care as they were in ancient times. I hope to see more of this in the future. Once again thank you for allowing this beautiful music to be explored.
Really cool to see that there are so many scientists and archaeologists in the comments section of this video! Neat!
parker shaw hahahaha
RobbD : dude... just shut the fuck up, please
You can tell she would LOVE for him to come regularly and serenade her rock-specialist heart out...
Thanks KZhead for providing us with _valuable_ knowledge during Mr. Rona....
I'm an audio engineer...I'm just imagining someone coming to the studio with this. Like "Hey, can you mic up my rock?!"🙃
Sorry, Gibson doesn't make a pickup for that.
Me: shows new electronic drum kit to grandfather Also me: can I get this for my birthday? Grandfather: back in my day...
Sounds eerily good.
Love it, I am headed to the back yard to find my drum set.
ok but can we have some undisturbed footage of liam playing the gongs.... please?
Right felt like i was in history class
Music with rocks in!
The Root Boy Cooks ! - Pterry !
don't know if the british musuem is reading this - but you could actually record each hit and create a sound board / looper track and allow artists to come up with music based on the sound of the rock gongs...as a drummer that's something I would love to do
As Terry Pratchett once wrote: music with rocks in! :D I wonder how these would've sounded in their actual context, though, as the ambient sound and reach would've been entirely different. In addition, I believe you can hear some of the metal on which the drums are mounted reverberating, which also alters the sound - though to what extent is hard to say... In any case, very interesting and enchanting music...
The indentations of the lower rock, and even the sound, sort of reminds me of a steel drum. I would love to see this done out in the open, maybe let the sound echo a bit. I bet it would be beautiful.
fealubryne that is interesting, because these rocks have metal in them. The higher the metal content, the clearer the ringing sound they produce.
What if they were just banging on a random rock
JItterRy PoKERy then that's some damn good sounding rocks
@Santi Chasca They're on flat plates and wooden shelves... you can't make that sound hollow like the rocks do
@Santi Chasca shelves
@Santi Chasca rekt
@Santi Chasca kzhead.info/sun/Zs-rYahtZHmNZ2w/bejne.html
Literally rocking out.
I'm intrigued by the resonance of these rock gongs & would like to see how they're mounted here. Listening to him "drumming" on the snare gong, I could imagine a dozen people playing at once & the sound merging into a glorious whole - much like a modern meditative drum circle... #RockWillNeverDie #RockOn