Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
From my 2024 archive:
Today’s Advent Shaker Calendar entry is a simple one – a box, some stones, and an elastic band – but it’s amazing the sound colour you can still create from these three ingredients!
Video Transcript:
Well the little shaker I’ve made today for the Advent Shaker Calendar is just basically a cardboard jewellery box. I’ve just popped a little elastic band there, and popped little stones inside.
Video Description:
Evelyn is stood in front of an array percussion instruments of varying shapes, sizes, textures and colours. She shows us the shaker she has created today, as part of her Advent Shaker Calendar (where she is making a new shaker every day in the lead-up to Christmas), describing what it is made from, and then demonstrates it.
From my 2024 archive:
Today’s Advent Shaker Calendar entry is a simple one – a box, some stones, and an elastic band – but it’s amazing the sound colour you can still create from these three ingredients!
Video Transcript:
Well the little shaker I’ve made today for the Advent Shaker Calendar is just basically a cardboard jewellery box. I’ve just popped a little elastic band there, and popped little stones inside.
Video Description:
Evelyn is stood in front of an array percussion instruments of varying shapes, sizes, textures and colours. She shows us the shaker she has created today, as part of her Advent Shaker Calendar (where she is making a new shaker every day in the lead-up to Christmas), describing what it is made from, and then demonstrates it.








![Evelyn Experiments | Cooking Up a Storm - Pan Lids on Timpani
Cooking up a storm…
A succession of recent visitors to the office have been curious as to why a family of pan lids have taken up residence on top of my 52-inch timpani. The aim was to declutter my kitchen but [as those of you who know me will be well aware] nothing is discarded until the sound possibilities have thoroughly come to boil!
This clip shows that nearly anything can be a percussion instrument if you find a way to forge sound with it.
Video description: Evelyn, dressed in a blue and marl grey striped top and with her long silver-grey hair loose around her shoulders, uses a wide range of mallets, super-balls and some metal chopsticks to strike eight pan-lids of varying sizes. The resulting sonic landscape is eerie, with bell-like tones and deep booms combined, as the silver lids shiver whilst they resonate on the timpani head. Evelyn Experiments | Cooking Up a Storm - Pan Lids on Timpani](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WLXhvLI_s3E/mqdefault.jpg)

