Throat Singing

Learn Overtone Singing @ Home

The Mongols, the Tuvans and Tibetans practise it since times immemorial. Composers Lamonte Young and Karlheinz Stockhausen introduced it to a select audience in the West. Singers David Hykes, with his Harmonic Choir, and Michael Vetter developed a whole new way of doing it. Your own voice resonates multiple sounds when you sing, and even →

World première In|nbalance at Designing Voices

Since the beginning of this year I am preparing a new solo performance. I haven’t conceived of a big solo work for many years; most of my work in the last two decades was about collaborations. I am delighted to announce that I was invited by Alex Nowitz: friend, composer, performer and mastermind behind the Designing Voices →

Learning Tibetan chant with Dr. Ricardo Canzio

We will soon start another cycle of classes in Tibetan Bön chanting in Taipei. In this post I →

Book and Audio Anthology published

A few days ago, Overtone Singing – Hidden Dimensions of the Human Voice has arrived at its distribution →

World Premiere of Yang Song’s In Einem Moment 须臾

This weekend a new work by Chinese-German composer Yang Song in which my voice and Jew’s harp are →

Performing Hsu Po-Yun’s Mood Field (1977)

The last two weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. When we were about to →

Founding the Taiwan Overtone Singing Association

On 12/12/2021 we started the founding of the TOSA, or Taiwan Overtone Singing Association. It was an old →

Online throat singing competition Sygyt 2020

Monday it was Khöömei Day again in Tuva. This year it was celebrated with an online throat singing →

Catching up with Tran Quang Hai

The most prolific researcher in the field of overtone singing is a man with many faces. His name →

Can I sing sygyt for one minute without taking a breath?

Today I tried out something I do a few times a year: take a deep breath and see →