Meditation Tingsha

How it's made

Source

two small, thick bronze cymbals held by a cord and touched edge to edge. The contact is a 0.5–2 ms broadband click; the second cymbal is struck a fraction of a millisecond later than the first.

Body

each disc rings in a few inharmonic plate modes (≈ 1 : 2.3 : 4.1 : 6.2 : 8.7 of a 2–4.5 kHz fundamental). The fundamental lasts several seconds, upper modes fade in a fraction of that time, so the attack is bright and the tail is a pure, piercing tone.

Beating

the two cymbals are tuned a few hertz apart, so every mode is a close pair that pulses at the difference frequency (`beating`, 1.5–9 Hz at the fundamental, proportionally faster in upper modes); this is the shimmer.

Envelope

instant clean attack, exponential decay per mode (T60 up to `decay`); a short final fade ends the oneshot well below audibility.

Variation

`rng` mistunes the modes by ±0.3 %, varies the click and the relative level of the two discs.

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