Over the last decade and a half, he has been known in New York as the leader and composer of the Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble, a group that draws streams of overtones from the rubbed edges of Tibetan metal bowls.
Martin begins by creating a Tibetan temple sound with his teaset, ticking it with percussion brushes or rubbing edges together.
Here are mainstream communicators who have taken out the sandpaper and rubbed the edges off their accents.
The edge can also light up if face down when a call comes in, and rubbing the edge when the screen is off triggers the information stream that can show stock tickers, Twitter trends and a selection of other feed-style apps similar to those available on the Note Edge.
At his best he sings with a sound as clear, smooth and penetrating as a wet finger rubbing the edge of a crystal glass.
(Albert at Downtown Records showed me that by rubbing the edge on your pants — somewhere thick, so you don't get a friction burn — you can quickly melt the plastic and pop open the sleeve).
To help the larvae find the nest, the parents make audible raspy sounds by rubbing the edge of their wing covers over raised ridges, or files, on the dorsal side of their abdomen, an action known as stridulating.
But before long, like an innocuous back rub edging into full-on creepy territory, the rhetoric turns, stressing CAFE's "current focus on the status, health and well-being of boys and men".
There was this knowledge that was attached to those tools; like how to maintain a small engine, what size wrench goes with what size nut and bolt, what a blade sounds like when a honing stone is rubbed against its edge.
Later, while fiddling with the exhibition model, Schimmel blithely commits the art crime of the century, plucking Jackson Pollock's "Number 1, 1949" drip painting from the wall with a loud snap and rubbing its edges between his thumb and forefinger.
Moistened fingers rubbed on the edges produced an ethereal sound.
