A few years ago, percussionist Mike Weis recorded the sounds of the Rockefeller Chapel’s carillon and then slowed down the tape he’d used to capture them. Entranced with the result, he named a new project after the endeavor. The Slow Bell Trio includes Weis and two fellow Chicago experimentalists, woodwind player Keefe Jackson and drummer […]
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Rockefeller Chapel presses its majestic carillon into service for a two-day festival of new music
This weekend you can hear adventurous new compositions played on 100 tons of bronze bells hanging in a church tower.
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Carillonneurs play the world’s largest musical instruments—and they’re all but invisible
UIC grad student Hunter Chase competes in the first “open” competition for carillonneurs ever held in the United States.
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The conspicuous obscurity of the world’s largest instrument—the carillon
The carilloners performing at the Rees International Carillon Competition in Springfield’s Washington Park on Saturday night are heard but not seen.
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Mike Weis of Zelienople on the perfect musical pain relievers
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