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from Surprised by Harry Lieben

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From the moment I first heard overtone singing, I was fascinated with the -for most people- unknown possibilities of the human voice as an instrument. For years I have improved my skill in overtone singing and -more in general- the enlargement of my vocal reach. With vocal reach I do not mean only how high and how low I can sing, but of course this is a part of it. I sat down this morning behind the microphone with the primary goal to hear how low I could sing and still be able to produce overtone melodies for the unbiased ear. Beside sometimes two or even three overtone melodies there are a lot of harmonics which "simply" follow the fundamental note. I put "simple" between brackets here, since it DOES require specific effort on my part to amplify them individually. You could say that I am both choir and two to three soloists, all at the same time. The spectrogram in the film clip youtu.be/eSe-FgtA3BU shows all the targeted overtones and the fundamental all the way at the bottom. This fundamental is initially 65Hz (C2). At 6:15 I liberate myself from the effort to sing as low as possible and shift to a slightly higher, easier to maintain pitch. This makes it easier for me to concentrate on the overtones. This is an analysis in hindsight. I sing because it is good for me, for my soul and because it is such a sweet challenge to find the peace in myself to sing a song that consists of only one, often barely perceptible fundamental note and is so rich in natural harmonics and overtones.

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from Surprised, track released May 30, 2020

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The first instrument of man is the voice. The first amplifier, a cave. For a caveman, there is no middle of the road.

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