Mark van Tongeren
In our culture, vocal harmonics fuction as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and harmonics. As a research method a series of compositions (Nulpunten/’Zeropoints’) has been developed, which attempt to make a fresh approach to overtone singing and to the sonic source material of the human body.
Keywords:
body, ethnomusicology, harmonics, listening, michael vetter, overtone singing, phenomenology, polyphony, timbre, voice
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