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One year ago today, I woke up in the Middle-East. It would mark the beginning of 7 months of performances at the World Expo. Today I am...

I am delighted to announce I will be performing on Hang® / Handpan at the World Expo (also known as the World Fair) in Dubai starting...

It’s a massive abandoned and rusty water tower in the middle of nowhere. I count a 10-second reverb at least.

Tim Ferriss says the handpan "has allowed me an entry way into music in a way I haven't known before".

As a fellow handpan enthusiast, I love these instruments and often wonder: how is this thing made? This summary will give you an idea.

If you're new to the handpan art form, you might be wondering how to distinguish a great handpan from an average one. It comes down to t

The handpan has quickly become an expensive musical instrument. But are there cheaper alternatives? Yes, the acolyte handpan is the best che

Have you noticed that all handpans look roughly the same and yet they sound very different, one from the next? That's because...

Get inside the handpan maker's workshop. See how a handpan is made, from start to finish. Understand what makes the Iskra a unique handp

Unlike most musical instruments, you don't need to tune your handpan before playing it. In this article we'll understand how handpan

The price of a quality-made handpan typically ranges from $1,500 to $3,500 USD (£800 to £2,600 GBP). Keep reading to understand why, to avoi

The first Hang prototype was essentially an inside-out steel-drum. It was far too big and bulky to play with ease (see video at the top of t

Congratulations, you are almost the owner of a handmade, one of a kind handpan! There are so many great handpans out there, do you know...

Sean uses the same materials and the same tuning techniques as PANArt did. The result is a clean and clear-sounding instrument that takes yo

I felt drawn to lean in and to pay attention to what was being said. It talked about the meaninglessness of life and earth amid the vastness

I am pleased to unveil the brand new logo for this website! It's visually kind of cryptic and minimalistic. It combines the circular sha

Looking at pretty clouds from airplane windows makes me want to go home and record music for it.

"Unseen unsemble" is an hommage to one of my favorite recent musical finds, Hidden Orchestra. This James Bond-esque track is full

So I decided to give it a try as a creative exercise. I would capture various moments on video and then try to compose music for it. I did n

I am very excited to share with you an interview I did for The Handpan Podcast. You can listen to the interview below, it starts at 31m54s.

Finally being able to play the Gubal helped me understand the direction PANArt is taking with its new instruments, how they are moving away

My previous albums were either live recordings during a concert or recorded in a home-studio. There is nothing wrong with these options, act

What had been a blank disk minutes before, I now viewed in a whole new light. And while I had just spent hours in the studio listening tedio

The next day, Felix would retune David's and my Hang. This was partly why we had come in the first place. But when the evening was over,

Mark later said "we are just barbarians" referring to the hours spent hammering steel, alluding to the dichotomy that such delicat

As the story goes... In the Spring of 2007, after spending some time teaching yoga in Europe, a man from the United States sold the strange