Deep Inside: Pantha Du Prince and the Bell Laboratory 'Elements of Light'

Sometime in the summer of 2010, Hendrick Weber (a.k.a. Pantha Du Prince) was eating lunch with some friends in Oslo when he first heard the cacophonous tones of the carillon. Originally of ancient Chinese descent and later adopted by the Europeans in the Middle Ages, the carillon is a towering instrument which incorporates at least 23 (but often up to 50) bronzed bells. Shaped to various sizes, the bells are played with a series of keys and foot pedals, not unlike a traditional pipe organ. Heari...

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