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mills:

Overtone singing.

Mongolians at a bar in Beijing perform overtone singing, in which one person sings two notes simultaneously; I remember hearing it done by monks visiting my elementary school years ago. It’s almost trance-inducing, and for reasons I can’t explain the song above -better in person, of course- caused me to tear up.

Regarding this form of singing among the Tuvans: “[It] seems to have arisen as a result of geographic location and culture. The open landscape of Tuva allows for the sounds to carry a great distance. Ethnomusicologists studying throat singing in these areas mark khoomei as an integral part in the ancient pastoral animism that is still practiced today.”

Isn’t it beautiful to imagine “the open landscape” allowing such sounds to “carry a great distance,” part of an “ancient pastoral animism”?

I had a phonology lecture about the articulatory gestures and internal acoustics of throat-singing. I’d say something intelligent, but my notes and handouts are in Wisconsin, where I am not.

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   this is way better than my band (WHO BY THE WAY HAS A SHOW TONIGHT) hhehe

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    phonology lecture about the articulatory gestures...internal acoustics

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    i will be in mongolia...july. we’ll be volunteering at an orphanage rotating between...

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