Sri Yantra Panharmonium — Microtonal Instrument with Thangka Mandala

A commission from a composer who works in microtones — an instrument of his own design, built by Owen Daly, decorated with the ancient Sri Yantra mandala.

When approached to decorate this unique microtonal instrument, I researched the pigments available to traditional Tibetan Thangka painters and used only those in painting the mandala. The deep blue-black is indigo; the coral-red is genuine vermilion; the white is made from ground oyster shells; and the luminous yellow is gamboge, a unique resin pigment from Cambodia used by Thangka painters for centuries.