This is rather peculiar. I'm not sure what it's good for, but I'm sure some avant-garde German composer has already figured it out.
Polyphonic Overtone Singing
This is rather peculiar. I'm not sure what it's good for, but I'm sure some avant-garde German composer has already figured it out.
Eerie.
Reminds me of Cathy Berberian.
That you file this under “Exploding animals, Music” is not necessarily a compliment.
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sounds mongolian to me
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I suppose it is an asian, not an european way of singing, quite typical in buddhistic traditions.
Tibetan monks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvyhxY54M3I
Other buddhsts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbA8Z33NcLA
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according to wikipedia avantgardists like La Monte Young and Stockhausen used overtone singing in the 1960s and this might have been independent and/or with different techniques than the asian “throat singing”. The best known German musician (who collaborated with Stockhausen) was Michael Vetter.
Apparently Asian composers like Tan Dun have also been influenced by the traditional overtone singing of mongolia and similar traditions.
It’s good for making really strange sounds in a “natural” (non-electronic) way, that’s probably enough…
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