polyphonic overtone singing - Anna-Maria Hefele

Hello, I am Anna-Maria, and I'm an overtone singer, and I'm going to tell you something about polyphonic singing today. Overtone singing is a voice technique where one person sings two notes at the same time. [singing] So, this was the overtone scale on one fundamental I can also choose an overtone and move the fundamental. [singing] So, I can choose the fundamental and have the overtone scale or I choose an overtone and have the undertone scale. If I want to sing a special melody and there are melody notes that don't fit to the overtone scale from one fundamental then I need to find another fundamental to sing this note And for that, there are often different possibilities and I choose this fundamental that fits harmonically best with the melody line And for polyphonic singing there are different possibilities to build scales and to move notes So, I can move the overtone with the fundamental, in parallel [singing] Or I can move the fundamental in steps. [singing] Or in smaller steps [singing] Or even smaller [singing] I can also move the overtone and the fundamental in the opposite direction. [singing] And that scale also works in major. [singing] And with these tools, I can sing, for example, folk songs in polyphonic solo voice. [singing] Thanks for watching

Channel: Anna-Maria Hefele

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Rating: 4.9362788 out of 5

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Id: vC9Qh709gas

Length: 4min 58sec (298 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 30 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/CorporationTshirt]

I heard about Tibetans who do this. Went up to a friend and was telling him about it, then he said, 'you mean like this?' And proceeded to do it. Blew my mind.

[u/negman42]

All I can say is it is freaking the hell out of my cats.

[u/Brrrronson]

I think shes in danger and blinking a message in morse code. Please translate!

[u/palordrolap]

Does anyone else sometimes 'lose' the harmonic when listening to this kind of singing and just hear the base note (or bass note even)?

Maybe it's the fact I'm using headphones with their own resonances and unintentional filters, maybe it's my ears, maybe it's both, but it really spoils the performance when all you can hear is the singer going "ur ^ur ur ^ur ur" over and over and not hearing the pleasant overtone 'whistle' which is necessary to appreciate the performance.

[u/Galactic_Blacksmith]

It's going to sound dumb, but I can produce two sounds--a low and a high--when I burp. My brother and sister now call me the Mongolian Throat Singer when I drink.

[u/Blazinasian35]

Avi, the bass from Pentatonix can do some pretty amazing overtone singing as well.

Avi's Overtone Singing

[u/[deleted]]

I love this stuff. The style she is doing is what is called Sygyt, and I actually think it's one of the less interesting styles of throat singing.

Here are examples of the 6 other styles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zZainT9v6Q

And just to be 'that guy' real quick... it's technically homophonic, as overtones are harmonically "tied" to the fundamental upon which they are being filtered.

Edit: Thank you for the gold, stranger :). If it's because I showed you something new and exciting, I encourage you to keep following the rabbit hole! It only gets cooler.

[u/boomer478]

She reminds me of a theramin.

[u/HotDogHotline]

Saw these dudes in concert once, it was dope. its like traditional mongolian (?) music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0djHJBAP3U