polyphonic overtone singing - explained visually by Anna-Maria Hefele
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange answerers and commenters point people to it as a clear, visual demonstration of overtone singing and of how human voices can emphasise individual harmonics.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2016 to 2022.
What it is
Singer Anna-Maria Hefele demonstrates polyphonic overtone singing, where one voice produces a drone note and a separate melody of isolated harmonics at the same time. The video pairs her singing with a live spectrogram visualisation by Bodo Maass, so viewers can see the individual overtones being shaped.
What people said
Recommends Akabelle · 2016-07 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Exercises for Tuvan Throat-Singing (Overtone-Singing)?”
Once you get a few tutorials, you may find a lot of related videos, and maybe you also found the ones below. For me these seem to be the most interesting ones: (Poliphonic) overtone singing with Anna-Maria Hefele
Cites Dave · 2018-03 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Whats the role or practical use of the harmonic series in music?”
When you get into the scientific study of psychoacoustics of how pitch and consonance are perceived, you'll need to consider harmonics. Except for some synthesizers that generate pure sinusoids, all pitched instruments produce sounds that include significant overtones that are an important part of pitch perception. The main theory for consonance is that it is related to the perceived " beating [LINK] " between the harmonics in the two sounds. So if you get into the quantitative study of this, or are just generally curious about how humans process sounds, then harmonics are a key feature to consider in explaining/clarifying these phenomena. There are some sonic "magic tricks" that rely on und
Cites dtldarek · 2022-11 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “What is the reason a given note can have different "sounds"”
It is explained e.g., in Wikipedia [LINK] . By the way, human singing doesn't need to have a clearly defined pitch, and I don't mean just noises, for example there also exist mind-blowing things like this [this video] .