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hey guys (and galls),

I just added 3 sample packs of a Alfonso Perez singing. He's a guy at work who went to Tuva ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva ) a while ago and learnt to sing in that really weird dual-sound singing style ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat_singing ). We recorded him in the studio. I edited and cut up the files, so have a look:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/packsViewSingle.php?id=1189
and
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/packsViewSingle.php?id=1190

Some great outtakes:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/packsViewSingle.php?id=1191

I also dare all of you to remix the samples into one of those massive choir-like throat-singing things.

I'm not sure if it's the microphone or my headphones or something in the studio, but I hear some weird artifacts in the recordings. Let me know if you think the same (listen to the originals though, not the mp3's)

{edit} oh yeah, in case anyone doubts, this isn't fake: this is really one guy, singing in front a of a microphone, no processing, just normalisation and cutting up {/edit}

cheers,

- bram

hi,

this is my first post, and when i read this i knew: this had to be my first post.
i love throat singing, it is nothing weird nor not to believe. it is absolutely fascinating & i would _love_ to learn it somehow too. throat singing is by no means something exclusive to tuva - it also has been used in gregorian chanting. in fact this style is ideal: slowly moving and very resonant. though today's practice does no longer use throat singing. i would love to find a recording of gregorian chant useing throat singing!
to explain it short and simple: throat singing "simply" splits the complex frequency sprecrum of the voice into two different tones. or, to be a bit more exact, it amplifies parts of the tone so that they are heard independently from the base tone. Which frequencies to amplify can be determined by chaning the resonance room called mouth. ,-)
i have read repeatedly that it is possible to sing three tones at the same time, though i have not heard that yet.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat_singing

i am downloading right now and have a listen tomorrow.

greetings,

ton.strom

pretty cool. you can tell its just one person doing it but souds tight either way. reminds me of one of them african instruments-don't recall the name right now but its that long ass thing they blow in to.

i gotta say tho i thought the sounds were annoying but interms of a musical sense its good stuff.

Thank you! I'll take a stab at putting these into something.
tri chord? I suppose there would be a way to resonate your body that way. It's probably an easy trick and you just have to forget something. It took me a long time to learn the basics (thank god for a car and middle amerikan distances) and it's really simple once you forget the right thing. You make a similar overtone through burping, hiccuping or yawning. It's really just belching without the burp. (not really), yawning but not yawning can do a similar thing. You use the same region of your throat to crack the tone in two and then your body, your mouth, nose and your head are the chambers which you resonate to get the overtones. As you shift back and forth from your head to your chest; the tone will probably change quite a bit as there is more room for the sound to use. You mouth and how you shape it, shapes the note and direction of the sound.

LS
reminds me of one of them african instruments-don't recall the name right now but its that long ass thing they blow in to.

didgeridoo

reminds me of one of them african instruments-don't recall the name right now but its that long ass thing they blow in to.

Australian.

ArnhemLand in Northern Territory to be even more specific

I can sing three tones at once and can bring one in after another to make it easier to hear them seperatly.
i will record it and post it soon...
I went to mongolia for a month a few years ago just to learn throat singing as i have always been facinated by it.
I can also do a chant that sounds like a digeridoo i will post and u guys tell me what you think?

I really liked the sounds and may end up sampling. Is he actually saying anything in a language in those recordings? If so what do they translate too?