Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
From my 2024 archive:
Today’s Advent Shaker Calendar creation involves a chutney jar and some fish stones. Enjoy!
Video Transcript:
So today’s shaker is, I think, a chutney jar, so a glass jar with its lid, and these wonderful coloured fish stones. Fish stones seem to be my go-to thing for making shakers. It’s got a real ‘spit’ to the sound, it’s really wonderful!
Video Description:
Evelyn is stood in amongst some grey shelves, packed full of 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 creation involves a chutney jar and some fish stones. Enjoy!
Video Transcript:
So today’s shaker is, I think, a chutney jar, so a glass jar with its lid, and these wonderful coloured fish stones. Fish stones seem to be my go-to thing for making shakers. It’s got a real ‘spit’ to the sound, it’s really wonderful!
Video Description:
Evelyn is stood in amongst some grey shelves, packed full of 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 Explores... | Creating a dark landscape with a GM Designs Cymbal, ping pong balls and Timpani
An improvisation to see what foley sounds can be produced using a GM Designs Cymbal on top of a timpani, utilising ping pong balls, super ball mallets, a bass bow and metal Korean chopstick. The aim is to create an eerie, dark soundscape.
00:00 - Evelyn introduces the GM Designs Cymbal
00:40 - ...and then improvises bringing a dramatic, sometimes haunting, sometimes echoing, sometimes screechy series of sounds which feel like an alien planet
02:55 - Evelyn speaks about her social media, todays video, and subscribing options
03:28 - Suggestions on what to watch next
Transcript: Well, this is a wonderful creation by GM Designs, and its like a sculptural cymbal or gong, whatever you would like to call it, but it really is quite beautiful to look at and amazing to explore.
So, Im just going to pop it gently on top of this timpani and have it hanging over a little bit. And uh and Im just going to explore using a couple of ping pong balls. And so this is just more foley creation, you know, building a fairly dark landscape.
[Evelyn uses a variety of tools to explore the possibilities, creating a darkly strange soundscape]
Video description: Evelyn is stood beside her 52-inch timpani, and places a GM Designs Cymbal on top of it, leaving it to hang just over the edge. She then uses a variety of tools to explore the possibilities, creating a strange and occasionally frightening soundscape.
[Disclaimer: Evelyn was gifted the GM Designs Cymbal but has not received payment to promote or endorse it.]
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