Vera playing the Russian Singing Bells
Many visitors to
Auroville have heard the ‘Russian Singing Bells’, a set of
differently sized brass plates of rectangular shape, which are hit
with several kinds of mallets. Vera, an Aurovilian from Minsk,
Belarussia, discovered this special instrument which was invented by
Russian bell-master Alexander Zhikharev.
“When I first
heard the Bells, I was frozen to the spot and started seeing images
of ancient Russia,” says Vera. “I was fascinated by the sound of
this instrument that gave me the experience of plunging deep within
and soaring high above at the same time, almost transporting me to
another dimension. It was ‘love from the first sound’.”
Vera invited
Alexander to come to Auroville to create a set of plates here. They
were presented to the Auroville community on the 22nd of December
2007. Since then, Vera has been giving many public concerts at
different places in and around Auroville and, in the last few years,
in The Netherla...
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