Tibetan Crystal Bowls

We went to a concert on Saturday, in Hamilton. The guy's name is David Hickey, and my friend Hedi went to one of his concerts and raved about it so much that we had to go check it out. This time, the performance was in his own home (his parents' basement, where he lives with his girlfriend). The music was amazing. He knelt in the middle, surrounded by about 25 different sized bowls, and pinged them with a rubber hammer, or other instruments, and sometimes he would rub the side of the bowls to get a longer, stronger, vibrating sound... At one point, he rubbed three large bowls, pinging and rubbing them to get all of them up to their highest frequency, and the entire room was filled with this magical sound as the three different frequencies merged and battled for their own space... it was like a helicopter landing, with the vibrations, but with a much more pleasant sound...
Two other guys provided a background of singing, violin, and this large instrument that has a specific name... but I forget. D. knew what it was, Buddhist monks use it to get meditative sounds.
The music was really, really great. Some of the sounds were so amazing, you wouldn't have believed that they didn't come from a sophisticated synthesizer. Meanwhile, the guy's girlfriend, Eden, was painting, inspired by his music. She was basically dropping and smudging paint on a wet plastic sheet, creating really unusual - and very beautiful - abstract art. Now for the ridiculous parts: This guy is about 45, long hair and beard and alluring eyes (he is quite hot, actually, if you just go by the looks), but yes, you read it correctly, 45 and still living in mom and dad's basement. With the lovely Eden, who is a thin, pretty little thing of about 25. All the new age bullshit was pouring out of all of them, David, Eden, and most of the visitors as well, as they were clearing their chakras and smudging from the shell David carried around, and meditating to receive the magical "energy" from the music and sipping organic tea and munching on wholesome cookies. I could have done without that, but the music WAS incredible.