AES Melbourne Section Event – The Specialist Bell Design Process
Dr. Anton Hasell has combined his creative artistic skills with an understanding of ‘how humans hear’ and the essential elements of metallurgy to create unique bells of many sizes.
For this hybrid event, Dr. Hasell will briefly outline human hearing and perception as it applies to tone-generation instruments. In particular, he will outline his pioneering mastery of ‘difference tone’ bell design in the world today and the benefit this provides for all bells, large and small.
Dr. Hasell will then explain his specialist bell design process from concept through shape design, tooling and casting to tuning the final product. He will outline examples of his installations around the World.
The presentation will include physical, ‘hands-on’ examples as demonstrations of Dr. Hasell’s craft.
Schedule: 90 minute presentation followed by 30 minutes for Q&A.
Stream Dr. Hasell’s Presentation On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlcAekC-N6M
About The Speaker: Dr Anton Hasell is a well-qualified sculptor of note living in Central Victoria. Anton explores the use of both traditional and digital tools in the design of bells, interactive public-space installation, sculptures and printmaking. He is well known for the creation of the Federation Bells Carillion in Melbourne and for other public-space artworks in Australia and overseas. Anton has recently completed the design, casting and tuning of ten ‘difference-tone’ bells for the ‘Long Now’ 10,000-year Clock project in Texas USA.