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Bernd Michael Sommer
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Obertonkonzert bei Kerzenschein at Hospitalkirche
May 9, 2009 from 8pm to 10pm
Obertonkonzert bei Kerzenschein in der Hospitalkirche - Stuttgart
Klänge des Lichts mit Dr. Bernd Sommer und Christian Bollmann
Eintritt 10€/8€
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- Instruments:
- Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Didgeridoo, Bass, Percussion, Shruti-Box, Singing Bowls, Gongs, Jew´s Harp
- Influences:
- My mother´s heartbeat, my father´s strength, my family´s love, and everything there is.
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Beatles, 60´s beat-music-groups, Gentle Giant, CSNY, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Deva Premal & Miten and many more.
My teachers: Jamey Aebersold, David Baker, Jerry Coker, Joe Haider, JoAnne Brackeen, Bill Dobbins, Chris Amrhein, Reinhard and Cornelia Flatischler.
My fellow musicians over the years: Stephan Rawer, Hans Jaeckel, Joerg Spiess, Peter Spengler, Dixi Schneider, Jens Neufang, Martin and Susan Weinert, Hans York, Siggi Hussner, Stephan Brandt, Stefan Engelmann, Jens Neufang, Rainer Heute, Wolfgang Engstfeld, Chris Amrhein, Christian Bollmann, Wolfgang Saus, Miroslav Grosser, Avalona Y. Doritz, Paul Freh, Claudiha-Gayatri, Lothar Berger, Hosoo, and many many more.
My students: too many to mention their names. Probably I learnt most of what I know from my students. Thank you all, and Namasté!
- About me:
- Singing with artists on records was a source of joy since I was a child. Then: the Beatles! I could not get enough of their music and their contemporaries´. When I got a guitar and founded my first band, I was in heaven. We copied the music of our models and composed music of our own.
After having finished high school, I studied Jazz and learnt how to play the piano and some other instruments. For a couple of years, I toured and recorded with various formations.
At age forty, I studied musicology, psychology and American Literature at the University of the Saarland. Being a bad sight-reader, I researched on the subject and wrote a dissertation on it.
In 2004, I met Chris Amrhein and Christian Bollmann, and the world of overtones revealed its wonders. It felt like being home - and it still does. Music, sound and rhythm seem to be a sign of what we really are. Especially overtone music is very strong in this respect, because it leads into silence.
Since then, I have been exploring the world of overtones, and I love to give concerts and courses. I also have been meeting lots of people who I feel in resonance with.
Thank you, universe! Let´s continue the celebration of life!
- Homepage:
- http://www.bemiso.de
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thanx for your music and for the link of the recordings of our concert. It's nice of you.
Thank you also for nice talking and sharing nice whiles thick with supporting energy and interweaved auras.
Bless you!
schön, dass wir uns jetzt kennen! Lass uns auch hier Freunde sein...
Viele Grüße von mir und der Nordsee
Barbara
thank you for the lesson!
I will go on practising and listening...
you know, I discovered when I sing overtones in a microphone, record it, and then listen back, they are very well hearable and really clear. I listen to it right after the recording, so I remember what I did with my mouth. And you are right, I should change tones much slower, even the slightest movement of my mouth does something to the tone, and I can not control it very well...yet!
Maybe something you are interested in : one of my songs ( Materia Lucida 2) is uploaded in a louder version now.....it really was much too soft. Maybe my next song will be with my own overtones...(recorded with the microphone that does it so well....)
Love and light to you!
Mylène
I would love that! But first I have to practise a lot more...do you happen to have an advice on how to make my overtones sound louder? or is it just a matter of practising a lot...Your tones sound so clear , how long did it take you to sing so beautiful?
Love,
X Mylène
Thanks for accepting frienschip!
And how wonderful to hear my music on your page...thank you so much!
(I think this recording is not loud enough, so I asked Jens last week to remove it so I can upload a better version, but he thought it was okay , so.....)
I have been to some of your overtone singing lessons on youtube, thank you so much! I can finally produce some real hearable overtones, due to your method of changing slowly from oe to uu...So great!
I'll keep on practising!
( and.....it's really cool, I find myself walking through the house singing "Barrack Obama... Barack Obama" all the time...)
Love and light to you....
x
Mylène
I just want to say I absolutely LOVE your song Barrak Obama...
Thanks so much for sharing it !!
x
Mylène
I like your loopings and turns on the Barrack Obama tune.
Greetings from Sweden
Iver
welche freude von dir zu lesen!!! ja, schade, daß wir so weit auseinander wohnen, aber vielleicht klappt es ja im nächsten jahr mal mit einem (musikalischen) treffen!? danke für deine guten wünsche, die ich dir siebenfach zurücksenden möchte!
herzlichst,
werner
Om Shanti,
danke fürs Hiersein und die wunderschöne Musik!!!
Herzensgrüße von
Sundra
und dem Liegenden Buddha (Öl, 1994)
es war eine sehr schöne Begegnung mit Dir in München. Ich freue mich sehr auf noch weitere viele klangliche Momente mit Dir - Peter auch - mit Herzensgrüßen
Agnya
P.S.: Der erste Klang Deiner Seite jagt mir grade eine Gänsehaut
über und durch meinen Körper ...
Nich nur der erste - es geht weiter ...
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