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Avi Kaplan Overtone Singing Lion Sleeps Tonight - Pentatonix Orpheum Los Angeles 3-2-2014

2014

Avi Kaplan demonstrates his overtone singing and takes it to the next level! This was a segment from the Pentatonix performance - their second Los Angeles show of their 2014 tour at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angles, CA on Sunday March 2, 2014.

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Overtone Focusing in Biphonic Tuvan Throat Singing

Khoomei is a unique singing style originating from the republic of Tuva in central Asia. Singers produce two pitches simultaneously: a booming low-frequency rumble alongside a hovering high-pitched whistle-like tone.

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Christopher Bergevin, Chandan Narayan, Joy Williams, Natasha Mhatre, Jennifer K.E. Steeves, Joshua G.W. Bernstein, Brad Story
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The Mechanics of Throat Singing

To understand how throat singing works, one must first understand some basic sound and singing physics. Sound is a wave of moving air. When people speak or sing, the sound is created when the air flowing into or out of the lungs is disturbed by the larynx, or voice box.

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Overtone Singing: The Science Behind Singing Multiple Notes at Once

As singer Anne-Maria Hefele states, “overtone singing is a voice technique where one person sings two notes at the same time.” This is accomplished by manipulating the placement of your tongue and the shape of your mouth. Such manipulation produces a low note and a high note.

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Jolene Creighton
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What Is Overtone Singing?

Overtone singing is a vocal technique that creates the auditory impression of polyphony by filtering individual overtones from the sound spectrum of the voice by controlling the resonances in the vocal tract in such a way that they are perceived as separate tones.

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Oberton
2013
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Throat Singing

A unique vocalization from three cultures.

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Overtone Singing: History, Development, and Influence in Contemporary Music

It is believed in Tuvan tradition that all things have a soul or are inhabited by spiritual entities.

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Jocelyn Black
2018
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The Healing Power of Sound as Meditation

As I witnessed the droning sounds of Tarek Atoui’s hybrid sculpture performance Organ Within at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, I noticed a family of four—two young parents with two young children—sitting quietly on the floor pillows of the rotunda.

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Marlynn Wei
2019
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Sound and the Chakras

In 1980 I first began my study of the uses of sound and music as therapeutic and healing modalities. This study ultimately manifested with a Master’s Degree in Independent Study of the Uses of Sound and Music for Healing from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Jonathan Goldman
2017
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Nine Insights into Sound Healing

The basic principle of sound healing is that everything is in a state of vibration, including our organs, bones, tissues, etc. If these parts of the body become imbalanced they may be healed through projecting the proper and correct frequencies back into the body.

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Jonathan Goldman
2002
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Projecting Intention

‘Sound is a carrier wave of consciousness,’ Steven said. This means that depending upon where an individual’s awareness is placed when he creates a certain sound, the sound will carry information on that state to the person receiving it.

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Jonathan Goldman
2017
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