The Art of Tuva Throat Singing

Are you tired of hearing the latest pop song? What about the latest rap or hip hop single? Well, here is something you most likely have never heard, "Tuva Throat Singing" . You may be asking what is that? Well here is a little information:

Throat singing usually refers to several traditional Central Asian styles of overtone singing, but is also applied to other non-Central Asian traditional techniques.
The harmonic frequencies created by the human vocal apparatus are harnessed in throat singing to select overtones by tuning the resonance in the mouth. The result of tuning allows the singer to create more than one pitch at the same time, with the capability of creating six pitches at once. Generally the sounds created by throat singing are low droning hums and high pitched flutelike melodies. The sound of certain styles of overtone singing may remind one of a Theremin.

You read more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat_singing

There is a land at the vast, windswept meeting of Siberia and Mongolia, where humankind's most ancient, nomadic past still lives in song. The place is called Tuva, and the Tuva throat singers do today what ages of pastoral herders have done on those vast grasslands. The Tuva singers produce harmonies within one voice, two deep and arresting tones from one throat. They do it in imitation of the sounds of the land -- of wind and the bleating of sheep and the murmur of water. But now they do it all over the world, off jet planes and cell phone calls, ancient animism in the swirl of the modern world.Hear the deep and wondrous sound of the Tuva throat singing.

You can listen to a fascinating program, featuring music and interviews at:

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/01/20060113_b_main.asp



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