Sound Bath Sessions 136: Fatin Zulkefly

Fatin plays metal bowls she bought from Bishal and her style is slow and highly improvised. She has an interior design background so I felt that she would be up for experimentation to try some ideas and concepts during the recordings. We would discuss some ideas before each recording, and she would execute them improvising with the bowls. I thought it resulted in a pretty cool three-part composition. In our last recording, we decided to add a final element to our previous concepts, time. We placed some stationary bowls around the space and Fatin would have to walk to some bowls to play them, the length of each note being the amount of time it took to walk there. Sometimes she would carry a bowl and play it. Then it finally happened, a slow wave of insect sounds started to emanate from the city below. It would soon surround us with its almost deafening roar. It was a beautiful moment and a perfect ending to my time in Singapore.