Early Rock Gong Music

Possibly a hundred thousand years ago humans started playing rocks. Some of those were monolithic big stones which sounded when hit in specific spots and others would have been hand held stones which allowed humans to do circle dances and used the age old music making principle of "One Person, One Note". This kind of ensemble I believe was one of the first wonderfully designed human teaching tools as it makes clear to the performer the two main ideas that led to the survival of the human race: an individual is nothing without the group, just one note... the group needs each individual's creative input to survive, so no good playing the same rhythm pattern as anyone else. These stones were used in workshops and a performance led by Pedro Espi-Sanchis in 2013 at the Origins Centre, University of Witswatersrand, South Africa.