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My book Overtone Singing - Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice will launch this autumn, around November. It is a thoroughly reworked version of my earlier book on Overtone Singing (subtitled Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics in East and West). It summarises my 30+ years of research in this field as a vocalist and musicologist and discusses all…

Overtone Singers Bernhard Mikuskovics & Gerhard Kowarz receive Global Music Awards´ honors with Aionigma for Outstanding Achievement! www.aionigma.com

Global Music Awards is a well-known international music competition which celebrates independent musicians. 

Global Music Awards is widely recognized by music insiders as giving legitimacy to highly talented artists.

Global Music Awards is recognized as music´s golden seal of…

New book on Mongolian music to be released in April!

Mongolian Sound Worlds

ed. by Jennifer C. Post, Sunmin Yoon and Charlotte d'Evelyn, University of Illinois Press.

"Insights into musical place, practice, identity, and heritage that arise during moves from steppes to stage, Chinggis Khan’s empire to…

AIONIGMA @ Radio Klassik Stephansdom am 22.06.2022!

-> Das Interview zum Nachhören

Bernhard Mikuskovics und Gerhard Kowarz plauderten bei…

Meïkhâneh's new album Chants du dedans, chants du dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside) will be released on Buda Musique label with international distribution on June 10th 2022!

Five years after La Silencieuse (Cas Particuliers/Buda Musique 2017), Meïkhâneh further affirms the Persian, Mongolian and European…

Austrian overtonemusic ensemble Aionigma combines the spheric soundworlds of overtone singing and instruments rich in overtones with elements of Early-European, Indo-European and Central-Asian music forms. The result is a unique music that moves in the seemingly so different genres of New Age, World Music, Early Music, Gregorian Chant, Folk and Classical Music.

Recorded live in the wonderful acoustics of Göttweig Abbey, the album Aionigma offers a first sound imprint and leads into…

An idealized, orderly, and multisymmetric presentation of parts of the interval material from Just intonation. All intervallic pairs with the same distance through the center are complementary within the octave.

The compass rose at the top left indicates that one moves horizontally (primarily the axis from 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock) in perfect fifths (right) and perfect fourths (left), respectively; in the direction of the axis from 1 o'clock to 7 o'clock and…

I am pleased to announce the publication of a special issue entirely dedicated to khöömii of the "Asian Music" journal, in which I participated:

Transregional Politics of Throat-Singing as Cultural Heritage in Inner and Central Asia, a special issue

ASIAN MUSIC, Volume 52, Number 2, Summer/Fall…

Marco Gianotta is a great friend and a formidable programmer. Some years ago he fulfilled my dream of seeing the overtone spiral in an interactive version, and he even added some opportunities which I hadn't dared to even dream of.

I am still confident that the overtone spiral/octave spiral is a most fundamental approach to the essence of music, and that this visualization may help not only to get a better grip of the nature of overtone singing and to relevant exercises, but also to get…

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You want to sing overtones on several fundamental tones?

You would like to practice polyphonic overtone singing with scores?

You need simple overtone melodies that you can sing?

You are looking for tips and tricks to train your brain for the strange two-way attention during overtone singing?

You…

CHAKRAS & 5 ELEMENTS

Double Album - healing music

Tune your Chakras and your 5 Elements with Ensemble 9.

Preorder -20% up to 20th of September – delivery by the end of September.

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Liebe alle!

Nach vielen Wochen Oberton-Auszeit gibt’s wieder neue Termine! Juhu!

Ich hoffe, ihr seid alle wohlauf und freut euch so wie ich auf das gemeinsame Singen und Klingen.

• Am 23. August 2020 ab 11.00 sind Gerhard Narbeshuber und ich eingeladen, als special act beim Ö1 Klassik Picknick im Schlosspark Wieselburg Obertonkonzert-Einlagen zu singen/musizieren. Siehe Anhang!

• Am 25. September 2020 singen/spielen Gerhard Narbeshuber und ich um 19.00 ein Oberton-Konzert…

Dear friends, fans, followers and lovers of our music:

We are thrilled to announce that we won a Global Music Award for our album Lux Natus Est.

It is an absolute honor for us to be recognized for our work with this wonderful prize the second time, after our newest album "Timeless" has been nominated for a Native American Music…

The new album Kladderadatsch! will be released on the 3d of June. Lot's of Jew's harp grooves and urban yodels.  

check out my Bandcamp!

"How do the bowls (acetabula) sound? - What a sweet tone they produce when they are struck in different ways. Man accepts their sound with such great gladness that he believes hearing to be the best sense."…

My new book is finished! "The Overtone Singing Virtuoso" is 12 songs for advanced level polyphonic overtone singing with substantial commentary and instruction.

This completes the trilogy of instructional books for overtone singing, progressing from beginning level with steady fundamental to advanced level polyphonic overtone singing:

1. Making Music with Overtone Singing (free download at stuarthinds.com)

2. An Overtone Experience/Eine Oberton Erfahrung (published by…

Sie ist fertig - unsere Liedersammlung zum Einstieg in das polyphone Singen - erdacht für Frauenstimme, aber auch für Männer singbar. Beate Eckert und ich haben sie zusammen erstellt, eingesungen und bis in den Druck gebracht. Es sind bekannte Volkslieder, die auf zwei oder drei Grundtönen gesungen werden können. Ergänzt werden die Noten durch unsere Tipps und Tricks zum Einstudieren. Und das Beste: es ist eine CD dabei, auf der wir alle Stücke vorsingen - teilweise auch im…

If you sing within in a modal scale and you want your accentuated harmonics to stay within that framework here is your key diagram.

The smaller, divided circles indicate which harmonics can be accentuated at each step of the modal scales if you want to keep the harmonics within the pattern of the scale.

Intervals from the Harmonic Series:

- Perfect…