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On the other hand, Peter Plonsky used to come into a friend's shop, and break out into something like this which he called "vocal trance technique." I never heard it, but my friend said it was amazing! I cannot tell what is voice and whether there is anything else in this recording.
I have heard several singers who could do this though she is superb at it.
Gerard Schwartz brought a couple of male Tuvan throat singers into Benaroya hall once while I was preparing a piano. It was a treat to hear them.
I sometime try to sing that way and so far very little luck at getting the effect steady and string.
I don't think the overtones she is producing would qualify as partials. I think they would have to be harmonics since the voice operates much like a wind instrument.
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Good singers modify their vowels subtly throughout their range anyway, but few have the precision control she does.
As I understand it, the voice is a wind instrument and produces a series of upper partials. The vowel sound is a way to shape the resonances of the vocal tract to amplify different partials selectively. You can sing oooh or ah or AY on the pitch C and it all sounds like a C, but also sounds different because of the vowel.
Good singers modify their vowels subtly throughout their range anyway, but few have the precision control she does.
As I understand it, the voice is a wind instrument and produces a series of upper partials. The vowel sound is a way to shape the resonances of the vocal tract to amplify different partials selectively. You can sing oooh or ah or AY on the pitch C and it all sounds like a C, but also sounds different because of the vowel.
WOW, I JUST DID IT MYSELF!!
It's crazy, but as the video mentions, the overtones/partials are already there!
You just have adjust the shape of your mouth opening, and you can hear the overtones changing, even though the fundamental stays the same!
Crazy! Of course, my partials aren't as loud as these people, because they have trained themselves specifically to utilize these tones.
