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BOING! is THE Overtone Gathering in Austria.

Jew´s Harp, Didgeridoo, Overtone Singing and exchange of knowledge and experience are the central part of this weekend in "aspern Die Seestadt Wiens". Daily workshops and jam sessions enable both individual and joint experiences of overtone music. On Saturday night there will be an open stage. The workshops will be held by famous teachers from Austria and abroad. Additionally to the main programme, there will be workshops in composition,…

Please go to my website to listen to the CD SHAMAN VOICE

If you like to order it, please do so. I will send it to you!





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Two people from different cities met in the summer of 2010 – Svetlana Sukhanova, a Krasnoyarsk pianist, and a jew's harp player from Irkutsk – Vladimir Markov. The jew's harp and the piano are very different-sounding instruments, but in the difference is hidden not only a certain difficulty for the performers, but also…

Seven Liberal Arts - Music

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(the author is Danish so please submit your corrections of language or factual information. They will be received with gratitude)



Spectographic excerpt from Jan Heinke: Orpheo's Angel

Underneath the…

Dear overtone singers,

my new book 'Pieces for polyphonic overtone singing' is now available. It contains 25 pieces for female singers and 25 pieces for male singers, including many folk song arrangements, some original compositions and even a polyphonic overtone-fugue. It is recommended for all singers who…

PLATONIC RATIO

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The ancient Greeks had a…

Det Springende Punkt presents:

Keys to the Harmonic Universe 

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NEW WEBSITE, SINGLE & VIDEO RELEASE: "ZWEI RABEN / TWA CORBIES"

We are proud to announce that beside the launch of our new website the first single from the forthcoming NAM-Studioalbum, to be released in 2013 as physical CD, will be available worldwide soon at digital download-stores. Preordering at iTUNES is already possible, the official…

Between June 29th and Juli 1st 2012 the 1. overtonedays at Feldegg where organized by my friend and fellow musician Bernhard Hanreich at his castle in Upper Austria.

This festival was a pioneering event in Austria, as it consisted of three days performing with overtone singing and overtone instruments: the 1.…

The site admin suggested I post this here, as I have in the Facebook group 'Overtone Singers Unite'. BTW, if you haven't already become a member of that group, I recommend it.

The subject of this blog is collaboration online. With overtones of course. The site I use is kompoz.com

You can find almost anything here in terms of style. There are some quite accomplished producers, engineers, composers, etc. here, so don't worry about the quality. Of course, there are some wash outs, but…

Masters of overtone singing

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a documentary-film by…

Please check out my new book, the complete guide to polyphonic overtone singing: www.traumzeit-verlag.de/stuarthinds…

On April 23rd 2012 the 4th annual vargan and khomus concert took place at DOM in Moscow. Fortunately i was invited as a special guest to perform the jew´s harp playing technique and music of my country and to perform together with gifted jew´s harpists from the Russian vargan and from the Yakut khomus scene. The event…

This is a text I wrote in the aftermath of the alumni meeting of Wolfgang Saus intensive overtone workshop participants; not a sophisticated theory but just some thoughts scrambled together to stimulate a conversation. Originally written in german and only for the alumni group, this is a translation I did due to interest from non-german-speakers. I omitted some passages of the german version and surely made mistakes.

Some aesthetic considerations related to overtone singing

To…

Hi Everyone      Hola a Tod@s

My book is aimed at absolute beginners, with simple and clear exercises which are explained in the text, each exercise is sung on the CD in the note of C - DO to make things easy

El libro está diseñado para principiantes, con explicaciones muy claras y una pista en el CD para cada ejercicio en la nota DO.

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Hier ein Text den ich im Nachklang zum Alumni-Treffen von Wolfgang Saus Obertonschülern geschrieben habe; eher einige Gedanken zur Anregung eines Gesprächs und keine ausgefeilte Positionierung:

Einige musikästhetische Überlegungen in Bezug zum Obertongesang

Obertöne zu hören bedeutet eine Sensibilisierung der Wahrnehmung; wo vorher ein Ganzes, eine einzige geschlossene Gestalt war - der Ton - entdeckt man als Obertonanfänger nach einer Weile des Hinhörens eine Fülle von…