(ethno)musicology
Sound Journey: Cycles and Rhythms
中文請往下滑 Four days to explore Time through exciting rhythms, solemn melodies and ritualistic cycles. Repeat repeat repeat. →
Ode aan Walter Slosse (1947-2016)
Een jaar geleden (op 1 augustus 2016) overleed VPRO programmamaker Walter Slosse, met wie ik vele programma’s maakte, →
Special Journal on Tuvan music
Here is the latest issue of the journal The New Research of Tuva, dedicated this time to the →
Intriguing counterpoints: the ‘Kalachakra Ritual Offering Dance’ and Tibetan folk music
Here is something curious almost live from the web. Last week the Dalai Lama presided and led one →
Singing with the Bunun
Recently my Resonance students – plus a few guests – joined the second Sound Journey. The first Sound →
Sept 5: Sound Travels concert
This Saturday evening (September 5, 19:30, at Yuppy Cafe/Bookstore) I’ll be doing a concert of songs I have →
PULP247 Shanghai interview
Mark Van Tongeren explains overtone singing, and gives a demonstration on the Shanghai metro – because why not? →
Ethnomusicologist gives a throat-singing lesson
Excerpts from daily workshops conducted by Mark and visiting musicians at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival/Silk Road Festival →
Overtone Singing – the book
The book Overtone Singing. Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics in East and West is still available. The price →
RIP Vladimir Oidupaa 1949-2013
Another brilliant and influential Tuvan musician passed away recently (september 2013): Vladimir Oyun Oidupaa. Here is an excerpt →