Sound Bath Sessions 309: Mingwei Kok

By now, the water had begun to form a little creek on our right side as she started her second session with her moon bowls. It was such a wonderful contrast from the heavy pitches of the crystal bowls. The session created a kind of recursive sequence where the various tempos of modulations from each bowl live within the slow tempo of the strikes that live within the immeasurable tempos of splashing chaos beyond. Amidst this temporal tangle, you seek some kind of hidden pattern to grasp onto when you finally step back and realize that what you were looking for had already been created through the process- a raft made from the jetsam of your own logic. Chaos is more meaningful than you think. Mingwei uses long pauses to let us take in our surroundings as she lets the bowls die into silence. The comforting pulsings of resonant bowls resemble my heartbeat and pace my breathing. The creek beside us has grown into a stream as we open our eyes, ready to wake.