A few years ago I was given a tongue drum as a birthday present. Prior to that, I’d never seen or heard of one before. I was familiar with steel drums and hand pans, but not this. Well, it’s a really lovely instrument and soon enough I was inspired to create something in 3D. I created an animation of a mechanically played tongue drum, using audio captured from my tongue drum.

Once I’d captured the sound of each note, I wrote a small tune that utilised all 14 notes. As the piece is effectively played by a machine and not a human, I decided to incorporate instances of 3 notes being played simultaneously (which is something I can’t do in reality 😭).