Are you learning overtone singing or throat singing, or working on the specifics of vocal timbre, and looking for a tailored, personal guidance to bring your skill to the next level?

Everyone’s voice is unique, that is why I offer 1-on-1 online voice lessons which focus on the unique qualities and problems of your voice, focused on bringing out your full potential in a learning path that serves your needs.

The aim of these classes is to let you have …

confidence in integrating overtone singing into your creative practice

increase resonance in your natural voice

authenticity in your vocal expression

clarity on the unique paths for vocal exploration

For you as an overtone singing learner, I will

· help you out with any technical questions about styles and techniques
· help you expand your vocal possibilities using overtones and resonance
· freeing up space in your voice for more authentic singing and chanting
· identify and remove obstacles in the body-speech-mind-system
· suggest new paths for vocal exploration based on your natural voice

INSPIRATIONS

The voice is one of the most interesting tools that most humans posses. It serves us so smoothly that much of the operations happen unconsciously. Overtones are the most striking example, but not the only one. My life’s work is to explore and expand the possibilities of the human voice, using a performance, academic research and teaching. In my online classes I share the practical experiences and/or theoretical fundamentals of my work, applied to speech and song, to traditional techniques, to radical experimentation, and to contemplative/meditative practices.

‘EXTENDED HARMONIC TECHNIQUES’

AND OTHER GENRE-BENDING APPROACHES

My self-taught practice of vocal styles from all over the world is grounded in a teenager’s curiosity to imitate the synths and instruments of Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters with my voice, and my ethnomusicology training at the Jaap Kunst Center of the University of Amsterdam. From the start, I could not accept the limitations and taboos you will often hear from classically trained singers: I tried and tested hundreds of vocal techniques from anytime and any continent in artistic projects which cover, besides Western-style overtone singing, vocal styles from European or Indian art music, Tuvan throat singing, rock, jazz, world music, beats, rhythms and noises.

My ‘extended harmonic techniques’-approach starts from very subtle play with timbres and expands into many techniques of overtone singing. For these, I teach seven basic overtone singing techniques, as outlined in my Overtone Singing book: 1-cavity ‘gong’ technique, 2-cavities L/R techniques, the vowel technique, and Tuvan sygyt, khöömei and kargyraa. Whether you are interested in refining a European-style ‘classical’ vocal delivery, discovering the complicated mechanisms of a traditional style or wonder about your unique experimental vocal registers, we start from there.

PATHWAYS

What would best describe your practise and experience?

Below are two examples of things we do in typical classes based on working with overtones.

 

 

Feel free to inquire with specific requests:

questions about unique sounds no one but you seems to make,

pieces you are working on,

get rid of a blockage / lack of resonance,

expanding your overall timbre, etcetera.

 

 

 

PRICING

Free 15 mins Consultation Call 

In the 15-minute free consultation call, you can tell me your needs or discuss a goal, we will estimate how many lessons might be needed, and we’ll do a tech check for sound and video.

Your Next Step

Click here for my email to Book a free call, to Book a lesson or to ask your question. I will get back to you to find an appropriate moment to get started.