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Maultrommler-Stammtisch / Jaw Harpers Meeting

Posted by LOOPING jaw harp orchestra on April 29, 2010 at 0:57

Meet other jaw harpers in Vienna! Every month on 4th wednesday at: Café Concerto, 1160 Wien, Lerchenfelder Gürtel 53. We start at 8 p.m. Bring your instruments and join our jam sessions.

Der Österreichische Maultrommelverein lädt ab sofort jeden 4. Mittwoch im Monat  zum Maultrommler-Stammtisch im Café Concerto, 1160 Wien, Lerchenfelder Gürtel 53. Beginn: ab 20 Uhr.  Nehmt Eure Maultrommeln mit, es wird gezupft!

Beginner's thoughts about Khoomeï and Sygyt

Posted by Nicolas MOREAU on January 29, 2010 at 0:05

Two different techniques of throat singing. Both use the Xorekteer voice. I try in the new sample (Khoomeitest and Sygytest) to sing in these two styles. It's not so easy ;-)Khoomeï test : i sing with the Xorekteer voice and then i make a O with my mouth and lips. I feel that the high harmonics are harder to sing than the low. I use the tongue to select the harmonic, i've notice that it works like the Harmonica technique called Bending.Sygyt test : well, same thing. I sing with the Xorekteer voice first then i raise the tip of my tongue like when i say the letter L. My feeling is that is the same technique to select the harmonics, maybe i'm wrong ? I don't move the lips actually. I can sing high harmonics better than in Khoomeï.Well, it was my really first impressions about these two styles. I'm going to sing everyday and try to improve. It's a wonderful music and i really want to sing in Khoomeï. By the way i'm reading a book called "Where Rivers and Mountains Sing..." about Khoomeï, Tuva, culture... It's a really good book so if you're interested in Khoomeï buy it ! ;-)If you have any tips you are welcome ! Or if you just want to share your feeling about Khoomeï you're welcome too.thanksNicolas

Evolution of human sound

Posted by Peter Gleeson on January 26, 2010 at 0:33

The Complete VoiceBefore symbolic language developed, there existed a high order of communication. This used gesture, facial expression, posture, and mimicry in movement and sound. Communication was slow but effective. Under these conditions human social behaviour and identity developed. As with much of evolution, behavior led and brain and body development followed.As time went by and intelligence and the capacity for memory grew. It was found that communication could be accelerated and made more accurate if names were given to all things including each person. Rather than needing to imitate the sound and the movement of a wolf, snake, insect, or person, the name could be used. Information could then be passed through the generations and through the tribes. Selective pressure meant that the best communicators as individuals and as tribes had evolutionary advantages. Grammar and syntax developed and became so important that it left its mark in the genetics of all people. Other primates, animals and birds have the equivalent of words.Several hundred thousand years ago, complete symbolic languages developed. Stories that had once taken hours to tell could be told in minutes. Adults became the great teachers and our children became the great learners, ensuring our capacity to survive and learn from all the experiences that life could offer. It had taken millions of years of slow and incremental evolution to develop the capacity for symbolic language and within a short space of time, it became universal.Inside the brain, structures dedicated to understanding the ancient forms of communication were suddenly required to decode human sound. Recognition of meaning needed to be instantaneous for conversation to develop. Words and sentences had to flow rather than be slowed by deliberate remembering of words. Childhood ensured a total familiarity with the lexicon and grammar and syntax necessary for adult life.Another revolution happened in parallel to symbolic language development. Thought harnessed language for an internal dialogue. Communication could be rehearsed. Ideas could be manipulated more easily. Problems could be identified and later, discussed with companions.There were consequences of this rapid evolution and revolution. Human sound has 3 sources. The first is the voicebox consisting of the vocal chords which give accuracy to the pitch, and the false chords which give volume as well as protection to the vocal chords. The second system is the musical note contained within each syllable – the vowel. This note is determined by the volume of the space inside the mouth and the size of the lip aperture. A third system relates to the length of the throat space. The maximum length is found when vocalizing when yawning and is also linked to a maximum emotion sound. The shortest throat space makes the voice sound child-like.In the ancient times before symbolic language, individuals were masters of all sound in both production and interpretation. After symbolic language, the part of the brain that had been analyzing human sound in for its musical character was required to decode the sound. Attention was directed away from the actual musicality of the sound and toward its meaning.The ancient art of Harmonic or Overtone singing was lost. It was no longer an essential skill. The ability to be musical became less important than to be a great communicator. The overtones that were required to imitate animals, birds and each other were lost. Some cultures around the world today have chanced upon these ancient potentials and integrated them into their rituals, but for most people, these sounds are just weird noises. When they hear them they are listening for sound code and all they get is pure music. Even though the ear is designed by evolution to hear all human sound clearly, children deprived of any contact with overtones used as music will grow up unprepared to develop their capacity for the production or for the listening to sound that is the perfection of human noise.This is a difficult concept for most to grasp because it is only accessible to those who have broken out of the regimentation that symbolic language enforces. The idea that human sound can be mastered is alien to most and irrelevant to many. Songs are sung without emotion embedded within. The sung or spoken notes bear no relevance to the music of the vowel (except in Asian languages which is why most Asians have perfect pitch).Perhaps the greatest use of human harmonics in ancient times was in courtship. Song certainly played a major part in emotion and pair bonding. We still see vestiges of this in teens idolizing rock stars. It is the unskilled trying to find a genetic superior but settling for the best of a range of equally poor choices. Harmonic singers are denigrated to being the masters of weird, inappropriate, annoying, nonsense sound. How sad.Peter Gleesonon youtube thevoiceharmonicthevoice@iinet.net.auFrom Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Xorekteer Closed

Posted by Nicolas MOREAU on January 23, 2010 at 22:30

Xorekteer Closed is a small Mp3 to show what happened when i sing with my Xorekteer voice and i close the lips in order to make a O.Any hints appreciated!

Xorekteer Voice

Posted by Nicolas MOREAU on January 21, 2010 at 13:54

I've uploaded a new track : Xorekteer-vowels. In this track i try to sing the Xorekteer voice and to use the root of my tongue to sing some vowels. The Xorekteer voice is the Khoomeï fondations so i have to "master it" before going to Khoomeï and Sygyt.

TUNE THE WORLD 2010

Posted by Lorenzo Pierobon on January 21, 2010 at 1:00

We are going to resume our journey.
TUNE THE WORLD staff is working to improve this site soon.
Milan in 2009 was attended by over 7000 people, a real success and therefore TUNE THE WORLD will be another great event on 2 October 2010, so we need you, pass the information on this site, involve people and groups, create and propose events in Italy and worldwide.
English language will be the official language of the site (you can use the translator, at the moment on the right bar).
We count on you all ... our motto is: LET'S TUNE THE WORLD ..... AGAIN!

www.tunetheworld.org

Stiamo per riprendere il nostro viaggio. Lo staff di TUNE THE WORLD è al lavoro per migliorare il sito ufficiale www.tunetheworld.org A milano nel 2009 hanno partecipato più di 7000 persone guarda QUI il video
Un vero successo quindi TUNE THE WORLD sarà ancora un grande evento il prossimo 2 ottobre 2010,
per questo abbiamo bisogno di voi.
Passate le informazioni contenute nel sito ufficiale , coinvolgete persone ed associazioni, create e proponete eventi in
Italia e nel mondo. Diffondete i loghi ed i banner attraverso siti, blog, social network, e-mail

Contiamo su di voi...: LET'S TUNE THE WORLD.....AGAIN !

BBC - The Life of Buddha

Posted by Wolfgang Saus on January 20, 2010 at 19:19

Find a nice BBC documentary on Siddharta from 2003 with a soundtrack from London composer Glenn Keiles performed by my Aachen Overtone Choir in its early days.

The Khoomeï, the Sygyt and the Kargyraa

Posted by Nicolas MOREAU on January 17, 2010 at 21:33

In this video you can hear the Xorekteer voice, the Khoomeï, Sygyt and Kargyraa. Foreign Land by Huun Huur Tu !

Xorekteer

Posted by Nicolas MOREAU on January 16, 2010 at 10:30

I had a new mp3. I try to sing with the Xorekteer voice.Xorekteer means singing with the chest voice. This voice is the fondations of the khoomeï and sygyt. You have to work on your xorekteer voice before singing the other styles. You can listen to some Huun Huur Tu songs, sometimes they sing in the Xorekteer voice before going to Khoomeï or Sygyt.

published overtone choir compositions

Posted by kiva simova on January 14, 2010 at 10:00

As promised, some of my compositions for overtone choir are now published. The scores may be viewed, listened to, purchased and downloaded at:

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/index.php?sm=home.search&searchterm=Kathryn+Simova&method=compbrowse

There are currently four original compositions available for overtone choir:

'The Dawning of the New World'
'One by One'
'A Rural Lullaby'
'Arcanum' (in Latin)

Another, which I arranged for overtone choir, written by Canadian- Graham Shaw

'Only Waiting'
available at:
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/index.php?sm=home.score&scoreID=156454

You can view the full scores (by clicking arrows) before purchasing, and listen to complete mp3s of computer generated choral sounds. Actual choir recordings will replace these when they become available, so that they may be heard with the lyrics.

Most of you are familiar with the name Kiva as being associated with my music, however, it was necessary to use my legal name on these scores (Kathryn Šímová).

If you are aware of existing and new overtone choirs searching for material, please pass this information along. Thank you, and enjoy!

New record

Posted by Nicolas MOREAU on January 13, 2010 at 17:12

Just a small record to show my progression in khoomei, maybe i'm on the wrong wayActually i don't try the sygyt or kargyraa and i focus on khoomeï. By listening the cd's i try to imitate what i'm hearing.Any hints appreciated!

A month

Posted by Nicolas MOREAU on January 5, 2010 at 13:56

I started singing a month ago, i upload a new MP3 "khoomeï2" to show my progression.I can hear 4 harmonics but i don't know how can i have the higher or lower harmonics.

Beginner's diary

Posted by Nicolas MOREAU on January 2, 2010 at 23:39

Hi everybody, i'm a beginner in this harmonic world. I want to learn how to sing khoomei and sygyt. I've recorded a small MP3 and i'll record others to show my progression if there is a progression ! :-)

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