Friday, April 26, 2013

Song and Dance and Contortionism







Mongolian Throat Singing
I don't know how to describe this well, so I went to Wikipedia.
It's one of the weirdest things I've ever heard.

This unique type of singing involves the production of two distinctively audible pitches at the same time, including a low pedal note, or drone, derived from the fundamental frequency of the vocal cord vibrations, and higher melodic notes that result when the singer's mouth acts as a filter, selecting one note at a time from among the drone's natural overtone series pitches.

Trust me, it's awesome. Search it on YouTube. You'll be amazed.

He is accompanied by a traditional Mongolian instrument called the horse-head fiddle, or morin khuur.



She is strong! She held each of these poses for a long time.



Amazing, but slightly hard to watch









1 comment:

  1. What a fascinating experience! Thanks for sharing!

    Loved catching up on your cute family--didn't know you had a blog. (How have you not changed since high school? Beautiful as always!)

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