Making a 4,000-Year-Old Alligator Drum: The Sound of Ancient China | Tradition Blitz

Mr Moist on Instagram: "This is so cool Tan Dun’s Water Concerto reimagines water as a musical instrument, using bowls, splashes, ripples, and flowing hand movements to produce sound that’s amplified and performed alongside a full orchestra. By treating water as both rhythm and texture, the piece creates tones that shift between calm and percussive, never repeating in exactly the same way because the medium itself is always in motion. It turns something ordinary into music, blurring the line bet