While the GoPro brand of action cameras might be primarily focused on the sports market, showcasing downhill mountain bikers, snowboarders, and their ilk, the benefits of the GoPro’s convenient hands-free usage, and unique recording perspective, has not been lost on Handpan players also. With an increasing number of Handpan videos recorded using the head-mounted camcorder system finding their way onto YouTube in recent times. And particularly for travelling Handpan musicians, the GoPro’s ease of use, in terms of capturing decent quality footage on-the-fly, can lead to some truly memorable footage. As can be found evident in the “travelling Handpan” recordings of the ZuMusic Project…
Forget trying to balance your smartphone on its arse-end in attempt to get a decent angle, or messing around with tripods and the like for those more professional, and simply strap a GoPro on, and you’re away. And convenience aside, as mentioned above, there is something more personal about the perspective achieved utilising a camera like the GoPro. A Handpan-view panorama. A musical head-(or chest) mounted snapshot. Whether recorded at home (particularly useful for the camera shy). Or in India, Thailand, Australia, everywhere inbetween, and beyond…
Find GoPro for sale at Amazon: HERE. Or Visit the ZuMusic Project over at YouTube: HERE for more travelling Handpan footage.
