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OBERTONGESANG - ENTDECKE DIE BRILLANZ DEINER STIMME
Step into the world of throat singing at Echoes of the Steppe, the first festival of its kind in Europe, taking place on August 29–30 in Romainmôtier, Switzerland!
Also Dorian, step II-III; Lydian, step VII-I; Mixolydian, step VI-VII; Aeolian, step V-VI; Locrian, step IV-V & Ionian, step III-IV.
If we should attempt to map the most obvious combinations of fundamental and harmonics in overtone singing, it is essential to find a simple way of illustrating them in sounds and images as the field is vast.
Stuart Hinds lately shared his work “Making Music with Overtone Singing” which is available at his home page
Here I have used an ordinary table in a text document program. The sounds were plotted into https://onlinesequencer.net which can be used freely without registering. If anyone feels tempted to contribute with a sung version of the exercise, please share it with us! The simplest way to do this may be YouTube or https://clyp.it/
More exercises may be uploaded if enough interest is shown.
The exercise may be transposed to any tonal pitch; the keyboard pattern is merely meant as an aid to identify the minor and major steps within the modal scales and to illustrate which harmonics apply to the scale pattern (the ones in white cells).
If you sing within in a modal scale and you want your accentuated harmonics to stay within that framework here is your key diagram.
The smaller, divided circles indicate which harmonics can be accentuated at each step of the modal scales if you want to keep the harmonics within the pattern of the scale.
Intervals from the Harmonic Series:
- Perfect Fifth: Two yellows + one blue (Harmonics 3, 6 & 12)
- Just Major Third: Two yellows (Harmonics 5 & 10)
- Minor Seventh: Three yellows + two blues (Harmonic 7)
- Major Second: One yellow
The diagram is essential for polyphonic overtone singers and also gives an explanation to why harmonics sometimes sound strangely off in certain contexts. For example at the first step of the Locrian scale (and second of the Aeolian; third of the Mixolydian; fourth of the Lydian; fifth of the Phrygian; sixth of the Dorian, and seventh of the Ionian) you can only use harmonic 7 if the accentuated overtones should fit within the scale (plus, of course, harmonics 2, 4 & 8 which are octaves). At the first step of Mixolydian (and second of the Lydian; third of the phrygian, ... etc.) there are much more options (harmonics 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 plus 2, 4 and 8).
I included the harmonic seventh even though it will sound very flat in many contexts. On the other hand I omitted the partial 11, which may be used as a perfect or augmented fourth if your audience have tolerant ears, but it is even more off (about a quarter tone) than partial 7.
A little bit delayed ... I like to share this video here ... :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbW1S2iri8
Enjoy! :-)
I want everybody to have my new book, so I’m giving it away for free! “Making Music with Overtone Singing” includes lessons, exercises, and 14 songs from easy to advanced skill level. Download it today at my website:
www.stuarthinds.com/downloads
Please share with all your overtone singing friends.
I developed a hearing test for professional musicians. It aimes on the development of a better awareness of overtones in singing voice. The website is in German right now, use google translate if needed. But the main content is the sound samples anyway.
An alle fortgeschrittenen Obertoninteressierten und -sängerInnen im Deutschsprachigen Raum!
Liebe Freunde und FreundInnen der feinen Klänge!
Die 2. Saison des neuen österreichischen Obertonchores, von Oktober 2016 – Juni 2017 in Wien ist erfolgreich absolviert, ab morgen beginnt die AIONIGMA Oberton.Sommer.Chorwoche in Kärnten mit dem Abschlußkonzert in der Wallfahrtskirche Maria Wörth am 8.Juli um 20:00 Uhr und nach der Sommerpause beginnt die neue Chorsaison, zu der ich herzlich einlade!
Obwohl Aionigma seinen Sitz in Österreich hat, ist es ein Anliegen des Projektes, eine Plattform für gemeinsame Chorarbeit von ObertonsängerInnen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum zu sein.
In diesem Sinne freue ich mich über die weitere gemeinsame Arbeit an und mit Aionigma, freue mich über eure Anmeldungen und über Eure Mitarbeit und wünsche einen schönen Sommer!
Die Ausschreibung der Termine für die kommende Aionigma-Saison 2017/18 findet Ihr hier: http://www.mikuskovics.info/AIONIGMA-2017-18.pdf
Obertonreiche Grüße aus Österreich sendet Bernhard Mikuskovics
Aionigma
OVERTONE.CHOIR.CONCERT
8.7.2017, 20:00
Pilgrimage Church Maria Wörth, Carinthia, Austria
FREE ENTRY!
AIONIGMA Overtone Choir
Aionigma is an international Overtone choir based in Austria
It was founded in 2015 by Austrian overtone singer & multiinstrumentalist Bernhard Mikuskovics and initially appeard in front of the public at famous pilgrimage church Maria Wörth, Carinthia on Juli 9th 2016
Aionigma is a creative combination of two Greek words "Aion" and "Ainigma"
While the Greek word "aion" stands for eternity "ainigma" means as much as mystery, phenomenon or secret
Composed the meaning is something like infinite mystery or infinite secret
This perfectly describes the work of creativity in connection with the mystery of the overtones as parts of nature and harmonic existence in all dimensions and in all aspects of being
with:
Bernhard Mikuskovics, Gerhard Kowarz, Martin Schaffner,
Margot Steuerer, Hildegard Ehgartner, Renate Kitz
am 16. und 17. September in der www.stimmwerkstatt.at
Ich freu mich auf euch!
The new album Kladderadatsch! will be released on the 3d of June. Lot's of Jew's harp grooves and urban yodels.
Liebe alle!
Der Mai naht mit großen Schritten und da gibt’s schon wieder einen Obertonkurs in Wien, den ich euch ans Herz lege. Diesmal zur freien Wahl, ob man beide Tage buchen mag oder doch nur für einen Zeit findet. Der Kurs für die Musik- und Physik-LehrerInnen aus OÖ war wunderbar, mit Blick auf die schneebedeckten Berge des Alpenhauptkamms – hat großen Spaß gemacht, einmal wieder mit kompletten AnfängerInnen zu arbeiten. Der (letztendlich) Fortgeschrittenenkurs in Wien war auch sehr aufbauend: wirklich unglaublich, was weitergeht bei euch!
Wieder Lust aufs Obertonsingen? Oder neugierig geworden? Nix wie anmelden:
21. und/oder 22. Mai 2016 in der www.stimmwerkstatt.at in Wien
(U4, S- Bahn Station Hütteldorf)
Bitte meldet euch direkt auf der Homepage an!
• Zur Erinnerung:
Von 23. bis 31. Juli 2016 bin ich als Chorleiterin auf der TAUSI im Einsatz- geniale Sing- und Tanzwoche in Gießhübel bei Amstetten. Wer da nähere Infos haben möchte, bitte mir schreiben! Die Anmeldung hat bereits begonnen…
• Am 1. Oktober findet unser von musik aktuell- neue musik in NÖ - und Erwin Ortner gefördertes Konzert in Mödling statt. Save the date!
• Und schon zum Eintragen: der Puchberg-Kurs (diesmal wieder für AnfängerInnen) von 25. bis 27. November 2016.
Und was sagt Ella Fitzgerald?
„ What is better than singing? More singing!“
In diesem Sinne auf hoffentlich ganz bald!
Ich freu mich auf ein Wiedersehen, lieben Gruß
Julia Renöckl
A short piece with overtone singing and guitar. I composed this after looking at chordal structures in the overtone scale and demonstrating how to sing these as overtone arpeggios. Especially the augmented chordal structures are inspired by that, I did not use these for quite a long time. I like the shady quality of these chord types. Also, I tried to combine the modal aspect of the overtone singing resulting from one fundamental pitch that is not changed throughout the whole piece with chords that suggest a somewhat open tonality. In a way, the chords challenge the drone of the singing, they lean against it in dissonances that are released in different directions.
The octave spiral is a structure that clarifies the ratios of the harmonic series. It illustrates something essential and universal, so it is obvious for anyone to try to understand and experiment with this pattern - first and foremost singers and musicians.
Marco Gianotta has made his design and programming expertise available for the project.
The program will not work in Internet Explorer, but in Edge and other modern browsers.
You can find it here: https://suonoterapia.org/overtones/
The wunderful Swedish folk song “Ack, Värmeland, du sköna” in a set for overtone singing with changing fundamentals incl accompaniment chords. Anybody who tries it. The premiere was in Sweden last week together with Anna-Maria Hefele.
https://www.oberton.org/neue-herausvorderung-fuer-gute-obertonsaenger/
Seit ein paar Jahren spiele ich den Cosmicbow, einen mehrstimmigen Mundbogen aus Frankreich. Hier ein Blogartikel mit einem fantastischen Video des Erfinders:
https://www.oberton.org/zwei-obertonmelodien-gleichzeitig-cosmicbow-spieler-christopher-vila/
http://www.oberton.org wurde komplett runderneuert. Auf über 200 Seiten findet Ihr meine über 20 Jahre gesammelten Informationen rund um Obertongesang.
Das Design ist luftiger, leichter navigierbar (hoffentlich) und besser durchsuchbar. Die Informationen sind schon jetzt mit über 200 Seiten deutlich umfangreicher als auf der alten Seite.
Neu unter anderem:
- Werkverzeichnis– Obertöne in der Klassik, mit vielen Videos
- Stileübersicht– Die Weltkarte des Obertongesangs
Komplett überarbeitet:
Ich freue mich über Rückmeldungen und Kritik.
OVERTONE SINGING
INTERTWINES MUSIC, MATHS, ... AND LANGUAGE!
Hopefully the above statement doesn't sound too overrating for anyone who personally has given attention to overtone singing, where the music very obviously is expressed through number and wovel sounds.
Two days ago I appealed for assistance to translate the interface of the Overtone Spiral program, and I am overwhelmed by the kind and generous responses, which may lead to a German, a Spanish, a Romanian, and maybe even a Finnish version.
I also shared a link to the program in various music theory and microtonal groups, and the respons was great. One of the most pleasing things was how Paul Christian from Minneapolis within minutes was able to write about 100 lines code, which could not only render the Ari graphic (Ari for 'arithmetics') I have used for representation of numbers in the app, but it included four different ways of systematisation.
LEARN TO COUNT WITH OVERTONE SINGING
Overtone singers ought to be aware, that each new prime number introduces a new musical function through the harmonic series.
Ari is not a number system like the [2, 5] base 10 system which forms the basis of most modern number culture, or like the sexagesimal [2, 3, 5] system used in ancient Mesopotamia. Ari is a representation of the essence of number analysis, the prime factorization. As such it is also a representation of music.
Brief introduction:
- The numbers appear as circles/wheels which are divided by 'spokes'.
- Prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, ...) appear as wheels with a number of spokes/radials going all the way from perimeter to center.
- Each added concentric ring indicates that the number consist of one further factorization element.
Example:
15 = 3x5 may be a good place to start as it is composed by the two first odd primes, 3 (perfect fifth in music) and 5 (just major third in music). A perfect fifth interval plus a just major third interval gives us the just major seventh (=15).
The circle representation shows four versions, different ways of systemising.
In the two upper ones all 15 subdivisions can be seen in the outer ring.
In the two lower ones the rings only illustrates the primes, 3 and 5 in different order.