Funny multilayer-Khöömej from France | Mathias Duplessy

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That’s a creative way of dealing with Mongolian Khöömej. Mathias Duplessy,

a French (film) composer and multi-instrumentalist, created this funny multilayer music video. Usually I prefer local singers with Khöömej. But Duplessy, who has also performed with Enkh Jargal, not only sings a good Khöömej style, but also brings here no copy of the style, but his very own, tasteful and thrilling interpretation of his Mongolian impressions. I like it. What do you think? Leave a comment.

Links & Sources

http://www.mathiasduplessy.com/

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Duplessy

International Movie Database

Overtones in Canon | Mundwerk

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The Munich a cappella group Mundwerk sings Brother Jaques not only with voices in canon, but also with overtones. My student and master class graduate Oliver Zunker (now no longer with the group) sings together with his colleague Jens Ickert the canon exclusively with overtones. Oliver himself is an excellent overtone teacher, as you can hear. I think the whole choral arrangement is superb!

All tones of the melody are already contained in a single keynote (harmonic 6 to 13, cf. composing with overtones). So you can sing them on one fundamental note.

Here you can download the sheet music for free →

Sources & Links

https://www.facebook.com/oliver.zunker?fref=ts

http://www.mundwerk.biz/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A8re_Jacques

Turning a child's ear

Test: Are you an overtone or fundamental listener?

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Do now also the new hearing test by Wolfgang Saus!

Go to the new hearing test

The effect of overtones in the brain seems to be of great interest. That’s why I would like to introduce the corresponding hearing test here. Dr. Schneider, the head of the study, provides on his website a hearing test developed by him, with which I have been testing my Masterclass students for years in order to develop an individual and optimal learning strategy for everyone.

This short test plays a series of tone pairs in which you are asked to decide spontaneously whether the second sound feels higher or lower than the first. At the end you get an evaluation of the degree to which you are fundamental or overtone listener, i. e. whether your hearing processes the sound more in the left brain half (fundamental listener) or more in the right brain half (overtone listener). If you are interested in the background of the work of the Heidelberg researchers, you can download the specialist article here.



Go to hearing test by Dr. Schneider

On some computers this alternative link seems to work better:

Alternative Link


Feel free to leave your score below in the comments. I’m curious to see how overtone singers perform. I’ll let you know my result as soon as the first comments come in. Then in another post I’ll show you what’s behind the sounds of the test.



Sources & Links


Schneider, P, M Andermann, D Engelmann, R Schneider, and A Rupp. “Musik Im Kopf.” DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 131, no. 51/52 (2006): 2895–97. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2006-957218.


Website of Dr. Peter Schneider

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