Anna-Maria you are so ahead of your time, people in the future will be writing about you and your contributions to overtone singing. Thank you for your bravery and willingness to be different.
If you have the vocal chord skills to hold a fundamental with the larger muscle laxed and the overtone muscle trained just right to hit the fundamental harmonic sequence of phi like she can. it would go without saying she can do much more with full vocal chord usage rather than using a technique that hinders, if you get what I mean?
This is a beautiful and unique approach to this well know and popular song. Congratulations for the courage to perform in such an creative and original way. The loving bond of harmony and complementarity resonates beautifully in this work. Well done you two ! :)
+Mark LaPolla , Anna-Maria uses her special tongue positions to help create the overtone. If she would pronounce words, her tongue would no longer be in the right position to make the overtones. This is basically why those two things cannot be combined simultaneously.
What's is that bizzaro twisty in there? Polyphonic overtone singing is new to me!! For one second we get a very "Judy Garland" sounding Somewhere over the Rainbow. Then out of no where. BAMMO!!! A Tim Burtonesque noisey vibe thats sounds like the alien sounds that were used in the motion picture Mars Attacks.
Splendid! You have captivated me with your polyphonic overtone singing once again. Ever since I've seen your showcase video where you execute the technique, I find myself inspired, wanting to practice and hear the beautiful fundamentals and overtones in my voice too. Thank you for being you and introducing me to this extended technique :)
This is usually not my cup of tea, but I found a new flavor... I feel the connection as an African American. My grandma is an opera singer in NC and she used to sing this!!!
+Mily Alvarez Hi, of course you can learn it! and it will affect your technique but its not dangerous for the voice. the positive effect on the classical voice is additional power and more high notes then you already have. The technique itself is different, in classical singing you produce a sound and try to get all out, in overtone singing you produce a big sound and filter out a lot in order to have only the overtone and the fundamental remaining. So in overtone singing you use and move the vocal tract completely different, other muscular tensions, other positions, other resonance strategy.
+Connor Shannon You're only qualified to comment if you can do this or better. Otherwise kindly keep your opinions to yourself. I'm another semi-pro singer working with London's Royal Festival Hall VoiceLab and what a singer looks like is irrelevant. What they sound like, on the other hand, and/or what they can do with their voice, is relevant. I've been playing with that software for three years but haven't managed to tame things yet. Hopefully Anna-Maria will point me in the right direction: then I'll be using it in acappella vocal instrumentation.
+Connor Shannon : If you are unable to be supportive and kind, it is better to say nothing at all. It takes such a lot of training, work and skill to be as talented as both of these musicians. I think they look stunning as a duet, and I hope to see as well as hear more of their music.
Danke für diese Momente. Als Musiker im Rentenalter könnte man meinen schon alles gehört zu haben. Aber dem ist nicht so :) Ich habe selbst vor ca. 20 Jahren Obertonsingen gemacht. Die Klasse von Anna- Maria zu erreichen ist wohl nur wenigen vorbehalten. Da steckt bei Dir sicher auch viel Übung eine andere gesangliche Ausbikdung dahinter. Vielen Dank nochmal. Gruß aus Franken
I have amassed a collection of significant recordings of "Over the Rainbow". This is certainly one of them but I don't know how to get a non-ephemeral copy. Can you advise?
I remember when I asked you if you could sing some jazz standard. As far as I see you can, and, furthermore, "in your own sweet way" - subliminal message! ;-) At the beginning of the track I was scared you were actually going to really sing the whole theme with overtones! Would that ever be possible?! ;-) My compliments to you, to the baritone guitarist and arranger, and to the videographer - he really made a great job with these black-and-white clips! :-)
Fabulous, although I was expecting the final word to bring in the polyphonics, but understand how hard that might be to do, the whole vocal structure is different. Beautiful.
I notice that you move the fundamental from high fa to low fa in both overtone passages, with good tone and overtone volume. I'm not a trained vocalist; but I've been trying to learn overtone singing and it's hard for me to get a range of more than about a fourth where I can produce good overtones. Are there any specific exercises for this, or should I just improve my general vocal skills and range?
