Overtone Singing

R E S O N A N C E 2 0 2 5 ⎜ Overtone Singing Intensive

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March – May,  2025

RESONANCE – Overtone Singing Intensive

聲音的共鳴  泛音詠唱密集課程

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泛音詠唱全新雙修體驗
線上線下雙棲工作坊

3堂線上課
3 online modules

4天花蓮
4 days in Hualien

2天台北
2 days in Taipei

完整深度學習泛音詠唱，開發聲音與身體的潛能，就在今年三月至五月。

Learn overtone singing and unravel your vocal creativity with Mark van Tongeren

 

「將信念轉化為聲波實踐」
Channel your Beliefs into Sonic Practices

這個非常完整的工作坊透過學習泛音唱法的基礎，教你共鳴的原理：一種聆聽和製造聲音的特殊方式，對歌手和非歌手都有許多有用的應用之處。它不需要任何音樂訓練。

【共鳴】是指聲音與其他振動細微的交互作用。

 

【課程簡介】聲音的共鳴是 Mark 最完整的課程，讓你在泛音歌唱和有共鳴的聲音上有徹底的基礎。

今年我們引進了新的形式，先讓你在家裡以自己的速度學習基礎知識。整個課程階段包括

  • 一個月的線上課程，節奏輕鬆，介紹許多基本概念和練習。
  • 為期四天的現場工作坊（花蓮），進一步探索您的個人聲音，以及和聲、共鳴和一起唱出泛音的方法。
  • 6 週自修所學
  • 為期兩天的工作坊（台北），由兩位教學助理指導每位學員上一對一的課，以及小組作品和即興表演
  • 線上課程影片額外9個月的使用權

【2025課程時間】

3月10日 – 3月31日：每週一個新的線上單元 泛音歌唱 – 基礎
4月10日至13日（4天全時間）花蓮光復工作坊
5月31日-6月1日 台北工作坊

詳細課程內容

線上課程，2025年3月10日至31日（3週）

我們從線上開始學習旅程。線上視訊課程包含 3 個單元，共 35 支簡短影片（共 2 小時）。你每週將會收到一個單元。你可以按照自己的步調觀看影片，並跟著影片內容開始練習。

單元 A： 介紹共鳴

單元 B：泛音歌唱的基本技巧

單元 C： 打磨你的聆聽和發聲技巧

1 次 與Mark的即時線上Q&A：3 月 31 日 19:30-20:30

光復，2025年4月10日至13日（4天）

我們將一起度過四天的時光，共同歌唱、聆聽、感受、共鳴。我們沉浸在彼此聲音的共鳴中，發掘緊密聆聽所激發的力量。我們通過調整自己的聲音，探索和諧的聲響——包括傳統的「外在」和聲以及泛音的「內部」和聲。在這些練習之間，也會穿插世界上最具代表性的泛音歌唱傳統的見解故事，這些都是Mark本人近四十年的研究與藝術探索所記錄下的。

第1天
從回到身體的呼吸和自然的共鳴中，尋找內部與外部的和諧

第2天
探索並運用傳統的實踐與智慧，創新共鳴歌唱形式

第3天
作為治療與療癒的泛音，在泛音裡的療癒：面對恐懼，建立自信

第4天
擴大你的共鳴以及泛音的創意應用

 

【課程時間表】
早餐：8:00-9:00
上午課程：9:30-12:30
午餐：12:30-14:30

下午課程：14:30-16:30 + 17:00-18:00
晚餐：18:00-19:00
晚上：休息、自我練習、或一起即興

【上課地點】

花蓮光復 夏比安民宿 http://www.sapientia.com.tw

【四天的主題】

  • 學習泛音歌唱的基本技巧：
    NG（弓技巧）、RR、LL（西奇Sygyt）、母音（ee-uu）
  • 豐富你的聲音的共鳴
  • 冥想與療癒性的練習
  • 身體化的聆聽與聲音表達
  • 從基督教、佛教和原住民靈性中汲取音樂性的智慧
  • 蒙古、西伯利亞及西藏的喉音歌唱形式

Mark憑著一己之力，在泛音歌唱的主要傳統中，如圖瓦、西伯利亞及蒙古阿爾泰、西藏、薩丁尼亞和南非等，進行了持久而深入的研究。這一點無人能及！

聆聽

  • 打破你聆聽與發聲的習慣模式
  • 聽出聲音的顏色和音質中的泛音
  • “清洗耳朵”：跳脫熟悉的慣性，重新開始，聆聽所有聲音

共鳴的相遇

  • 引導與一個或多個聲音進行共鳴
  • 為彼此的聲音提供反饋

聲音風格與樂器

課程的主要重點是以放鬆的西方泛音詠唱方式來練習、應用與聆聽共鳴。也會簡要介紹喉音歌唱的壓迫性、喉音風格，例如圖瓦的Khoomei和Sygyt，以作比較。我們將學習一些由Mark創作的曲目和引導即興演奏，也會創作自己的作品。

此外，我們還將使用樂器，例如頌缽、鈴鐺、魯特琴和提琴。也請你攜帶自己的樂器——共鳴的頻譜越豐富越好！你也可以預先向 Mark 訂購一台印度風琴，以幫助你在工作坊期間和之後的練習。預訂可享有折扣，詳情請洽詢我們。

6 週自學

花蓮的課程結束後，你繼續自己的聲音之旅時，我們提供網路上一些最有趣、最重要的精選影片陪你在家練習。這些影片將保證讓你在練習中得到啟發，並加深你的理解。提供英語影片 – 中文可能無法提供。
選擇性的活動：學員組織線上或現場聚會，互相學習、討論影片等。

台北 2025 年 5 月 31 日至 6 月 1 日 (2天)

在這個週末，Mark 和他的助教將在之前的課程基礎上進行教學。許多時間會花在技術性的工作上，每個學生的情況都會不同。集中在聲音/身體工作上、身心平衡的練習以及良好的泛音歌唱技巧，是課程的基本。每位學員都會與 Mark 進行一對一的私人課程，以消除障礙。我們會以小組或團體的方式來練習我們學過的曲目或新作品。這個週末之後，你就會知道自己的強項和發展方向。第二天下午，我們會創作關於 「宇宙中心的聲音 」作為最後一個作品。

【課程時間】

抵達時間：09:00
上午課程 9:30-12:00
午餐 12:00-13:30
下午課程 13:30-16:30
最遲結束時間：18:00

【上課地點】

心悅人文空間（台北市中正區金門街12巷7號）

 

密集課程報名資訊

 

【開課人數】: 最少9人，最多15人

【語言】: 英文+中文(全程翻譯)

【參加條件】: 不需要任何音樂相關經驗均可參加。曾經上過一個或更多次泛音工作坊的學員，也會學習到新的東西。如果你有所遲疑需要幫助，歡迎直接與我們聯繫！

【費用】

原價：52,000元

截至 2025 年 2 月 7 日
早鳥 / 八五折優惠 NT$ 44,200
共鳴 / 舊生 / 7折優惠 NT$ 36,400
TOSA會員 / 9折優惠 NT$ 46,800

2025年2月8日至3月10日
全價 NT$ 52,000

攜伴參加 / 每人額外 NT$2500 折扣

 

學費包含：
＊學費
＊保險

＊花蓮住宿

＊花蓮私廚蔬食午餐、午茶甜點、私廚蔬食晚餐，台北午餐

不包含:
＊ 交通

備註：住宿房型由學員報名順序、人數優先挑選，詳情請直接聯繫主辦人 Jackal

 

 

【報名須知】

＊請先完成表單登記手續(https://forms.gle/dHEpHahCjMJeyxEa7)，並於三日內完成匯款
＊匯款完畢，請以手機簡訊、Line、Email的方式通知下方聯絡人，並提供姓名、匯款帳號後五碼
＊收到款項，經確認後，將在五天內發出報名確認信件，並邀請進入Line群組，以便活動行前聯繫
＊聯絡人：Jackal Mei–  jackallala@gmail.com / line ID：jackallala /＋886 936596910

【匯款帳號】

銀行：中國信託敦南分行(代號:822)
帳號：163540306745
戶名：MARK CHRISTIAAN VAN TONGEREN

【取消報名】

取消報名收取10%行政費。課程前30天取消報名，主辦方將保留50%費用；
課程前14天取消，主辦方將保留80%費用。
如果你找人來替代你來上課，我們將退回10%行政費之外的費用。

 

【我們的團隊】

帶領者: Mark Van Tongeren

翻譯: Sunny Chen

活動規劃/攝影: Jackal Mei—

行政：惜音

【好奇嗎？詢問/報名/房型登記 請來電或來信了解詳情  】

Jackal Mei

jackallala@gmail.com

line ID: jackallala

0936596910

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什麼是人聲泛音

 

【關於Mark】
Mark van Tongeren，中文名：德蘇，荷蘭籍國際聲音藝術家，民族音樂學碩士、表演藝術博士，曾與大提琴家馬友友同台演出，也與台灣的表演藝術團隊持續合作，25年來以泛音演唱家、聲音研究者的身份走訪全世界，與各地專家交流學習。
他是學生們眼中最親切幽默的「馬克老師」，結合藝術、科技與瑜珈，帶領學生發現：身體就是上天賜與人們最豐富美好的樂器，而聲音也可以成為身體內在療癒的最佳處方！
他更是充滿熱情的旅行家，頻繁前往世界角落踏查、採集民族音樂。圖瓦和科西嘉島是他最熱愛的地方之一，每一兩年都會回去拜訪在地音樂家老朋友，把世界的生命力融進生活，化為創作與教學的動能。
重點經歷
1990 開始探索泛音歌唱跟實驗性聲音表演(包含人聲、自製樂器等等)，曾以獨唱表演巡演了:荷蘭、俄羅斯、西班牙、芬蘭、德國、紐
西蘭、比利時、台灣、中國、韓國以及美國等地。
1995 在圖瓦國際喉唱音樂節得到特別獎
2000 以客座講師的身份受聘於紐西蘭的Victoria University in Wellington音樂學院，以及國立台北藝術大學。
2002 在Smithsonian Folklife Festival發表他10年泛音著作: Overtone Singing – Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics in East
and West，這是同類型著作中最盛重的發表場合。在藝術季期間，也和馬友友同台演出，以喉唱即興結合馬友友的巴哈大提琴
演奏。
2003以喉唱專業及專長重建電影Odna(1931)的曲譜。也因而參與了俄羅斯作曲家Dimitri Shoshtakovich (1906-1975)作品的世界首演。
2008參與肯園的創辦人溫佑君老師，邀請音樂人李欣芸小姐，共同創作一系列結合芳療與音樂的專輯:鹿女的人聲演出，此專輯獲得19th金曲獎演奏類最佳作曲人獎。
2013 定居台灣， 開始了一系列聲音瑜珈、泛音、聲音旅程課程的教學
2016 聲音旅程:圖瓦，帶領圖瓦喉唱為主題的文化觀光團到圖瓦共和國。
2019 開始在花東開辦聲音瑜伽療癒假期，並在此經常性舉辦講座、音樂會
2020 於台東都蘭月光小棧與阿美族古調演唱家 馬格拉海的改硬、即興舞蹈家Shaun Roos與慧虹合作演出
2021 創辦台灣泛音演唱團體 Iuooui 漪渦魚，並定期辦理歌唱聚會，培養傳遞聲音的新世代
2022 創辦台灣泛音詠唱協會，透過組織型傳播，讓聲音對身心靈的美好讓更多人知道
【學員分享】
分享1
聲音充滿在生活週遭，像是人聲、風聲、喇叭聲、只是我們已經習慣了
因為成長背景與生活規範，自己對於聲音的表達與接受，都被制約且遺忘了
一開始我也無法接受自己的聲音，就像自己的生命議題-自我認同
因緣際會下認識馬克老師並且參加馬克老師的聲音工作坊，
後來才發現，唯有接受了自己的聲音，才能如實的接納、包容與愛自己，消弭所有二元性，唱出屬於自己靈魂的樂章，真正的療癒自己
聲音的奧妙，很簡單也不簡單，存在於實相與虛無之間
身處在空間與時間中，只需要去聆聽與發聲，與當下的存在共振著
而跨越了空間與時間，迎面而來的是森林、海洋、草原、高山、行星、星系，微觀到單細胞生物、宏觀到銀河宇宙，同時也是時間旅者，穿梭在過去、現在、未來之間，如此無限的多變、延伸與合一
來吧！讓心發聲!讓愛發聲!為自己發聲! – Jude Huang
分享2
從無聲到有聲 ~ “If I were Helen Keller, Mark Van Tongeren , you are my teacher Sullivan.” 這是我對馬克·德蘇的由衷致意。近日連續驟雨, 時急時緩，時大時小，若不去分別不適或恐懼災變，光聽雨聲，彷彿天地奏出交響的樂章。
週末是最後一次共鳴工作坊，在老師德蘇·馬克的鼓勵和搭配下，即興的來上一段。對會歌唱的人或許不足為奇，但對於從小與啞巴長大、和易緊張的我來說，辨識音高和發出聲音都有困難，更別談演唱這回事。
這兩年接觸了聲音瑜伽和共鳴，老師的溫和及不急不徐，讓我願意嘗試，運用這個身體和聲音，可以打開一個更大的世界，而吵雜的噪音也可能變得有趣。只要用老師引導的方式，回到身體、進入呼吸之流，不費力的，緊張逐漸卸下。一旦人放鬆了，心也開始變得自由，遊戲本能甦醒，就讓自己的聲音成為聽見自己的陪伴。老師的無為而為又溫柔堅定的帶領，讓我碰觸對喉嚨和身體的緊縮，於是知道怎麼讓它再度打開。
透過聲音瑜珈，我第一次感覺到身體裡面有很多種聲音的震動，還有一個內在的空間。對我來說，是個很強烈的經驗，我對自己的身體有了種新的認識。聽著你(Mark)的聲音，我感到平靜……當你(Mark)要我們模仿你聲音時都好好玩……
每次我們一起玩聲音的時候，我都覺得自己在剝去自我又再重建的過程，最後回到一個完整的人。- Judith
你的課程讓我發現呼吸及聲音的魔法，也讓我的內在小孩非常快樂。- Nancy
很享受今天的課程。大家都好投入，展現了豐富創造力。也在抒發情緒之中宣洩，並在宣洩之後充電，恢復滿滿的活力。- Tina

R E S O N A N C E   I X
 New Hybrid Format

Channel your Beliefs into Sonic Practices

This very complete workshop teaches you the principles of resonance by learning the basics of overtone singing: a special way of listening to and making vocal sounds that has many useful applications for singers and non-singers alike. It requires no previous musical training.

 

BRIEF OUTLINE

RESONANCE is Mark’s most complete course giving you a thorough basis in practices based around overtone singing and the resonant voice in general. This year we introduce a new format that allows you to learn the basics at your own pace at home. The subsequent stages are:

– an easy-paced, one month online course that introduces many of the basic concepts and practices.

– a four-day in-person workshop to further explore your personal voice and ways to harmonise, resonate and sing overtones together.

– 6 weeks self-study on what you learnt

– a two-day session with a one-on-one class for each student and group pieces and improvisations guided by two Teaching Assistants

– another 9 months access to the online modules

TIMELINE RESONANCE 2025

March 10 – 24: every week one new online module Overtone Singing – Basics

April 10 – 13: (4 days fulltime) Guangfu Workshop

May 31 – June 1: Taipei Workshop

DETAILED PROGRAM

Online March 10-31 (3 weeks) 2025

We start the learning journey online. The online video course contains 3 modules with 35 videos (2 hours total). You will receive one module per week. You can go through the videos at your own pace, and start to practice with the video instructions.

Module A: Introduction to resonance

Module B: The basic techniques of overtone singing

Module C: Polishing your listening and vocal skills

1 live Q&A session with Mark: on 31 March 19:30-20:30

 

GUANGFU April 10-13 (4 days fulltime)  2025

We come together to sing, listen, sense, resonate together for four days. We immerse ourselves in the resonances of each other’s voices, building on the power that emerges from close-listening. We fine-tune our voices in harmonies – both conventional ‘outer’ harmonies and the ‘inner’ harmonies of overtones. These practices are interspersed with insightful stories from the world’s most iconic traditions of overtone singing, documented by Mark himself in the course of now almost four decades of research and artistic exploration.

 

Day 1

Finding inner and outer harmony from embodied breath and natural resonance

Day 2

Traditional practise and wisdom explored and utilised for new forms of resonant singing

Day 3

Harmonics as/in healing and therapy: confronting fear, developing self-confidence.

Day 4

Boosting your Resonance and creative applications.

 

SESSION TIMES GUANGFU

Breakfast 8:00-9:00

Morning sessions: 9:30-12:30

Lunch break: 12:30-14:30

Afternoon sessions: 14:30-16:30 + 17:00-18:00.

Dinner break: 18:00-19:00

Evenings are for resting, self practice, jamming…til 22:00

 

THEMES FOR THESE FOUR-DAYS

° learn to sing the basic techniques of overtone singing: NG (gong), RR (bird), LL (sygyt), vowel (ee-uu)

° enrich your vocal resonance

° meditative and therapeutic practices

° embodied listening, embodied vocalising

° musical wisdom from Christian, Buddhist, and indigenous spiritualities

° Mongolian and Siberian and Tibetan forms of throat singing

Like no other, Mark has single-handedly undertaken enduring, in-depth investigations into all the major traditions of overtone singing: Tuva and the Siberian and Mongolian Altai, Tibet, Sardinia, South-Africa.

 

LISTENING

° break through your habitual patterns of hearing and making sound

° hearing overtones in the colours and timbres of a voice

° ‘ear cleaning’: make a new start listening to all sound instead of familiar patterns

 

RESONANT ENCOUNTERS

° guided resonating with one or more voices

° giving feedback to each other’s voices

 

VOCAL STYLE and INSTRUMENTS

The main emphasis is on using / applying / hearing resonance with a relaxed, more occidental voice. Short introductions to the pressed, guttural voices of throat singing, for example Tuvan khöömei and sygyt are also given for comparison. We will learn some pieces and guided improvisations by by Mark and also create our own. In addition we will use instruments such as singing bowls, bells, lutes and fiddles. You are encouraged to bring your own – the greater the resonant spectrum, the better!

 

 

6-WEEK SELF-STUDY 

As you continue your journey with your own voice, we provide you with a curated selection of some of the most interesting and important videos on the internet. These will guarantee to keep you inspired in your own practise and deepen your understanding.

English only – Mandarin may not be available.

Optional: organise your own online or in-person gatherings to learn with/from each other, discuss videos, etc..

 

TAIPEI May 31- June 1 (2 days) 2025

In this weekend, Mark and his teaching assistants will build upon the results from the previous 4-day immersive workshop and your personal journey over the next 6 weeks. Much time is spent on technical work, which will be different for each student.

The basis of resonance is concentrated voice/body work, balance of body-mind exercise and good overtone singing skills. Each student will have a one-on-one private sessions with Mark to erase stumbleblocks. We work in small groups and collectively on pieces we learnt or new work. After this weekend, you will know your strengths and which direction to go. On the second afternoon we create a final piece about Sound at the Centre of the Universe.

 

SESSION TIMES at JOYFUL LIVING 

 

Arrival time: 09:00

Morning sessions: 9:30-12:00

Lunch 12:00-13:30

Afternoon sessions: 13:30-16:30

latest finish time: 18:00

 

LANGUAGE

The course will be conducted in English. Our interpreter Sunny Chen will be present to summarise or translate entire parts of the course into Mandarin, depending on the needs.

FOR WHOM?

No previous musical experience is required. All levels welcome.

We’ve had office workers, people with speech problems, poets, singing bowl players, linguists, sanyassins, professional singers, dancers, academics in previous  R E S O N A N C E  courses. Anyone who is curious about developing her or his voice potential, whether professional or amateur or non-singer, will benefit from these lessons.

 

 

PRICING

Full price NT$ 52.000

 

Up to 7 February 2025

Early Bird / 15% off NT$ 44.200

Resonance / Old Students / IUooUI 30% off NT$ 36.400

 

8 February till 10 March 2025:

Full price NT$ 52.000

Bring a friend / 5% off :  – NT$ 2500

TOSA members  / 10% off NT$ 46.800

 

Included:

  • Tuition
  • Guangfu lodging in shared rooms (a private room if available).
  • Guanfu Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
  • Coffee and snacks
  • Taipei Lunches

 

Not included:

  • Transport to the retreat in Hualien

 

To bring:

Please bring some instruments of your own.

It is also possible to pre-order a shruti box from Mark to help your own practice during and after the workshop. For pre-orders discounts apply, inquire for the details.

 

REGISTER

We remain the right to change program time and contents.

Please sign up through this form: https://forms.gle/dHEpHahCjMJeyxEa7

Let us know if you need help!

OUR TEAM

This workshop is brought to you by Mark van Tongeren, Jackal Mei, Sunny Chen  and Hsi-Yin Chang.

For any questions about the contents in English ask Mark, in Chinese, ask Jackal Mei.

For registration, lodging and food details ask Hsi-Yin/Jackal.

For contact info see below.

 

 

PAYMENT

Payment upon registration by bank or Paypal.

Bank code: 822.

Name of bank: China Trust

Beneficiary: Mark Christiaan van Tongeren

Account number: 163540306745

 

Make sure to send an email after your payment with the last few digits of your bank account.

 

CANCELLATION

We try to keep prices reasonable. We will return 90% of the fee if you cancel 31 – 60 days prior to the workshop.

We will return 50% of the fee if you cancel 30 – 15 days prior to the workshop.

We will return 20% of the fee if you cancel within 14 days prior to the workshop.

If you find a substitute for your spot, we will keep 10% of the administration fee.

 

YOUR GUIDE

Mark van Tongeren is a Dutch sound explorer with a deep interest in the synergy of arts, sciences and contemplative traditions. Mark has over 25 years of experience in theatre, music and dance productions and holds a PhD from Leiden University’s Academy of Creative of Performing Arts. He practices all kinds of voice/music/performance practices for 30 years, often combined with contemplative practices (meditation, pranayama, yoga).

 

Watch this teaser from the online module showing the 7 basic techniques of overtone singing.

To get an idea of what this workshop is about, listen to Mark’s TEDx talk about listening and singing overtones.

 

CONTACT INFO

Jackal Mei (Organizer)

Phone: 0936-596-910

Mail: jackallala@gmail.com

Line ID: jackallala

 

Mark van Tongeren (Course facilitator)

mark@fusica.nl

Phone 0910382749

LINE: 091038274

 

Photos by Jackal Mei

 

The next one,

R E S O N A N C E   X

will take place in: spring 2026

 

Out Now: Le Rêve Album

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Le Rêve is an album that sprouted from the imagination of the French multi-instrumentalist Arnaud Lechat one Monday afternoon, late 2022. The inspiration was the painting Le Rêve and other work by Henri Rousseau, the fascinating naïve painter in fin-de-siècle / early 1900s Paris. In one inspired flow, Arnaud heard the parts for his own instruments and those I would play or sing. He recorded his own parts that afternoon, one by one as multi-track pieces. Then he invited me to add my own parts, specifying the instruments, moods and such. In a short while, everything fell together wonderfully well. Arnaud arranged the first performance with dancer Zhan Yachun, and several more followed. After those, we created a music-only version of Le Rêve.
When I announced this upcoming album earlier this year, I was in very good spirits about the collaboration with Arnaud. There was the musical click we had had during previous projects, and an intensified click from the music he created for the two of us. We had had frequent contact for over a year about this production, and decided about many issues for the release together. We got close to the stage of pressing the album and needed one final meeting for the last issues regarding the design. And then, all of a sudden, Arnaud was no more.

 

A big shock.

 

Our dreams to play this album live vanished. Our dreams for more projects could only remain dreams. The title of the album (which translates as ‘the dream’) haunted me in strange ways. I realised afterwards that the last café where we had met was called Dreamers Coffee. Two days after he left us (and also the day after the gig we had to play without him in Kaohsiung), fate steered me to a café to meet someone, the only option left over. The name? Rêve.
Most of all, it was hard to grasp the reality that someone about my age living a healthy life, died so sudden.
It became clear how Arnaud had touched many people with this generosity and curiosity. He had set up many collaborations, getting the best out of a great variety of people. Some of them did not even consider themselves an artist. Arnaud recognised a talent and created nourishing conditions and used his organising skills so that the talent could emerge, and then merge with his own.

 

What a privilege it was to know Arnaud, albeit for a few years. And to experience the genesis of a new way to combine improvisation with compositional sketches. Arnaud’s passing is a tremendous loss for the many artists and music lovers, here in the greater Taipei area, and further afield.

 

Click on the image below to go to Bandcamp to listen,
to buy the physical album
and/or to buy the downloadable audiofiles.

Please note: If you buy / bought Le Rêve through Bandcamp, you use the Bandcamp download function to get your files. Outside Bandcamp (for example when you bought the physical CD), you can use the QR code to go to the Proton-cloud to get your files. If you encounter any problems, let us know and we’ll help you out.

 

The 1910 painting by Henri Rousseau which inspired Arnaud to write his new work

Recording in progress (photo: Sunny Chen)

 

Le Rêve Album Announcement

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（中文在下方）
October UPDATE to the original post:
All of a sudden, Arnaud Lechat passed away on September 19, in the midst of many fine projects he was working on. Not long before, Arnaud had launched several websites, one for this album project (https://lerevemusic.tumblr.com/ ), another for our ALLsymt trio.
His widow immediately decided the album should still be released, but we experienced some delays.
We expect the physical album to be ready on November 7, the way Arnaud prepared and intended it.
For now, do not order the album on Arnaud’s Bandcamp while we are sorting out if and how his account there can be continued.
We will soon add a button to buy the album directly and create a new post, but you can also follow the procedure explained below.
It is time to round up some support for our next album project. Below you can read how to suport our album, but first some more on the genesis of this music and dance piece. Over the last 12 months or so I played quite a few iterations of Arnaud Lechat’s wonderful cycle of compositions called Le Rêve, based on the painting by Henri Rousseau. Arnaud recorded his own parts for flutes, percussion and voice on one afternoon, a year ago or so. He sent me the tracks and soon after I came over to play parts on voice, flutes, mouth-harps and effects, the way he had it in mind. It fitted seamlessly so we did several performances with a dancer. Each time it was different. Some things got better, some things failed or were less interesting. Each time we had Zhan Yachun dancing with us.
The new challenge was to play the music without her dancing. We tried several times. Each time it was different, very different. But the shape became sharp. This year on Fools’ Day, we committed our audio-only version to the recording machine of French recording expert Yannick Dauby. The result was beyond our expectation. We are really excited to put this album into the world: for musicians this is always a special process and event. And not without obstacles. I have had long discussions with Arnaud about the question: to print or not to print? Fewer and fewer people have CD players. Even the car, which was the last bulwark of CD players for many people, is changing to audio and video streaming now. For decades – what I say? – for a hundred or more years, selling records was a means of generating an income for musicians.

The 1910 painting by Henri Rousseau which inspired Arnaud to write his new work

With that epoch coming to an end, one of the ‘traditional’ ways for a musician or record label to recuperate the cost of recording, desiging, printing, distributing and promoting an album is challenging. For 20 years or so we enjoyed the ability to record cheaper, in high quality, and produce small print-runs of CDs. But now physical things are harder to sell. Arnaud tried making an album with a beautiful booklet with poems and art work and a download code – no CD inside. It did not work: buyers still wanted a CD, not just the booklet with download code. But as time goes on, even our CDs are selling fewer and fewer at concerts.
And yet, being musicians, produce we must. The physical CD, a digipack or something similar in carton, without booklet, is taking shape (see the top of the message to get an impression of where the design is going at the moment).
Watch an excerpt from one of the live performances we did of this album, when it was still primarily a music & dance performance (which it also will be: we will do sections of Le Rêve in an entirely new setting in the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in september).

I will spare you the details of why and how we came to the conclusion to put out a physical album in 2024. You can read that in my newsletter if you like (sign up if you like). Here is how you can support us, in order of urgency (most urgent support comes first):
1. Pre-order the album in the making from us, so that we can get part of the production cost together instead of investing our savings. Pay to my bank account or Paypal (see below).

2. Pre-order the album when we (Arnaud and Mark) put it on our Bandcamp pages. Bandcamp is a fantastic medium which pays a very large share to musicians. Compared to Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube it is a musician’s heaven, and a place where fans can express their interest in a very concrete way. Bandcamp is right when it claims that “artists receive 80-85% of every dollar a fan spends” and they pay very soon too, not after 6 or 12 months.

3. Buy the album when it is out, from us or from Bandcamp, or at a concert. You might never play the actual CD, we know, but you can get a download code and we can plan our next album, because people like you bought this one!

 

One last option: if there hides a philantrope in you, if you like to support the arts and other causes, and if you can easily spend some more, consider to pay more than just the album price. Basically, this is like tipping a waiter, or even sponsoring a project. Bandcamp too has this function to pay more than the set price, and in the last two years I noticed every once in a while fans do indeed pay extra! Every bit counts and the gesture itself is already very encouraging. If you pay more than the album price we have more chances to do more promotion, put out more albums, etc. If you want to support in a more substantial way and are interested in return-favors (a dedication in the album sleeve, a concert at home, etc.), please let us know by sending an email.

 

Pre-order Le Rêve now!

1. Make your choice:

CD with download code € 15,- + worldwide shipping € 10,- = € 25,-

CD with download code € 15,- + europe shipping € 7,- = € 22,-

CD with download code € 15,- + Netherlands shipping € 5,- = € 20,-

CD with download code NT$ 500,- + Taiwan shipping NT$ 80,- = NT$ 580

Ask us for special rates, for example sending to Japan from Taiwan.

2. Choose a payment method:

A. by bank:

M.C. van Tongeren

BIC/Swfit code: ASN BNL21

IBAN: NL50 ASNB0708027512

THE NETHERLANDS

B. by Paypal: use paypals@fusica.nl

 3. Let us know you ordered / paid:

Send a message to info@fusica.nl and cc to Hsi-Yin (hsiyin724@gmail.com) with ‘DreamOrder’ in the subject header or title. Make sure to leave your name + full address + phone (optional) and also let us know your banking name / last 3 digits (for Taiwan).

4. In the planned release month September or October we will send you the album as soon as it is out!

Recording in progress

如果你希望像我們這樣的人繼續創作出色的音樂，錄製並推廣給主辦方、給你、給音樂愛好者，那麼你能做的最好的事情就是慷慨支持專輯錄製項目或現場活動。這幾個月來，Arnaud和我都在焦頭爛額，有時感到絕望，完全不知道接下來會怎麼樣。但我們必須這麼做，因為我們相信Arnaud的作品、我們的合作以及其他一些項目的力量。 那麼你可以做什麼呢？你可以在不同階段以不同方式支持我們製作的專輯。

 

  •  當我們（Arnaud和Mark）將專輯放到Bandcamp頁面時預購。Bandcamp是一個非常棒的平台，支付給音樂家的比例非常高。與Apple Music、Spotify和YouTube相比，這是一個音樂家的天堂，也是粉絲可以非常具體地表達他們興趣的地方。Bandcamp聲稱「藝術家獲得粉絲每花費一美元的80-85%」，這是正確的，而且支付非常快，不是6個月或12個月之後。
  •  從我們或Bandcamp或在音樂會上購買。你可能永遠不會播放實體CD，我們知道，但你可以獲得下載碼，這樣我們可以計劃下一張專輯，因為像你這樣的人購買了這一張！ 最後一個選擇：如果你內心有一個慈善家，喜歡支持藝術和其他事業，而且可以輕鬆地花費更多，考慮支付超過專輯價格的金額。基本上，這就像給服務員的小費，甚至是贊助一個項目。Bandcamp也有這個功能，可以支付超過設定價格的金額，在過去兩年中，我注意到偶爾會有粉絲確實支付額外的金額！每一點都很重要，這一舉動本身就非常令人鼓舞。如果你支付超過專輯價格，我們就有更多的機會進行更多的宣傳，發行更多的專輯等。如果你想以更實質的方式支持，並對回報（如專輯封套上的致謝，家庭演唱會等）感興趣，請通過電子郵件告訴我們。

訂購《Le Rêve》專輯！

  CD加下載碼 NT$500 + 台灣運費 NT$80 = NT$580
   請向我們詢問特別運費，例如從台灣寄往日本。
  • 選擇付款方式：
銀行：中國信託敦南分行(代號:822)
帳號：163540306745
戶名：MARK CHRISTIAAN VAN TONGEREN
  • 讓我們知道你已訂購/支付： 寄信給 mark@fusica.nl 並cc至 Hsi-Yin（hsiyin724@gmail.com），標題或主題欄寫上“DreamOrder”。請務必留下你的姓名+完整地址+電話（可選），並告訴我們你的銀行姓名/最後三位數字（針對台灣）。
  • 我們將把專輯立即寄給你！

Spring Program 2025

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Concerts, workshops and other upcoming events.

Details below

近期音樂會、工作坊與活動

週二聲音瑜伽在台北｜Weekly Voice Yoga on Tuesday in Taipei

Details are here.

my weekly Voice Yoga session. We changed the day from Friday to Tuesday, the starting time from 09:30 to 10:00 (going on till 12:00), and the venue is our good old home, the Canjune Peace Store near MRT Technology Building. The program keeps developing, recently I am adding new breathing and sounding techniques based on pranayama.
This is NOT a singing class and NOT a yoga class either! If you feel a hint of curiosity mixed with hesitation, just come and try it out. New voices keep coming almost every week. Welcome 1 time or more, anytime you like. Make sure to register beforehand, preferably by LINE, or go the to Facebook group.
JOIN THE CELEBRATION OF FUSING BODY AND MIND WITH SOUND AND MOVEMENT.
Time｜ 10:00am – 12:00pm
Venue｜Canjune Peace Store B1 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/rbgA8dCwwch3abG48)
Fee｜One time 400 NT$
Yoga mat is available at the venue.
Registration is necessary and now open: Please join the ‘voice yoga’ group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/155959871454586) on Facebook and register under the weekly announcement post, or email hsiyin724@gmail.com to register.
See the photos of the entrance on https://www.fusica.nl/voice-yoga/ (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

我的每週聲音瑜伽課程時間有變動。

我們將上課日從 星期五 改為 星期二，開始時間從 09:30 改為 10:00（持續至 12:00）。地點仍然是我們熟悉的 Canjune Peace Store（捷運科技大樓站附近）。

課程內容持續發展，最近我加入了一些基於 調息法（Pranayama） 的新呼吸與發聲技巧。

這不是歌唱課，也不是瑜伽課！
如果你對此感到好奇但又有點猶豫，不妨來試試看！幾乎每週都有新朋友加入，歡迎任何時候來參加一次或多次。

請務必提前報名，最好透過 LINE，或加入 Facebook 群組(https://www.facebook.com/groups/155959871454586)。

加入這場融合身心、聲音與律動的慶典！

時間｜10:00am – 12:00pm
地點｜肯園和平店B1 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/rbgA8dCwwch3abG48)
費用｜一次400元
場地備有瑜伽墊

夢境 Le Rêve 聆聽派對｜Le Rêve Listening Party

4月25日 2025  April 25 2025

My last album, with music by Arnaud Lechat and recorded by the two of us, is now available in many shops and online stores in Taiwan.
But for the connaisseur, the audiofile, the hi-fi buff, we have a special event with very limited seats.
On April 25 our recordist Yannick Dauby – many of you know him – will bring his double set of loudspeakers to the French bookstore in Taipei, Le Pigeonnier, for a Listening Party. Yannick will play back a selection of pieces of the album for us to hear in its original high quality – no mp3s!
All collaborators for Le Rêve will join, including dancer Ya Chun, and we will have a live session too. Arnaud’s fantastic collaborator and percussion teacher Mona Kaveh Ahangari will also join.
Entrance is free.
Please reserve seats as soon as possible if you want to join, by writing to the bookstore.
Details on the flyer.

我的最新專輯《夢境 Le Rêve》，由 Arnaud Lechat 作曲，並由我們兩人共同錄製，現已在台灣多家實體與線上商店上架。

但對於真正的音樂鑑賞家、音質追求者，我們特別準備了一場限量席次的特別活動！

4 月 25 日，我們的錄音師 Yannick Dauby（許多朋友應該認識他）將攜帶他的雙組音響，在台北法國書店 Le Pigeonnier舉辦聆聽派對。Yannick 將為我們播放專輯中的部分曲目，並以原始高音質呈現——絕無 MP3 壓縮！

《夢境 Le Rêve》的所有合作夥伴都將出席，包括舞者雅淳，並帶來一場現場表演。此外，Arnaud 出色的合作夥伴兼打擊樂教師 Mona Kaveh Ahangari 也將一同參與。

免費入場，座位有限，請盡早向書店預約！詳細資訊請見活動海報。

立刻報名：寫信至info@llp.com.tw，註明姓名、聯絡電話與參與人數。

西藏苯教唱誦共學團開放日｜Tibetan Bon Chanting Group Open House 

4月17與24日 2025   April 17&25 2025

Our Tibetan chanting group welcomes people interested to join us on a regular basis for two subsequent Thursdays. You can just come and listen and try out something with us on one of these days. If you have the time, you can become a regular, joining weekly rehearsals.

How to register: email Mark at mark@fusica.nl

我們的西藏苯教唱誦共學團歡迎有興趣的朋友參加，連續兩個星期四都可體驗。你可以選擇其中一天來聆聽，並與我們一起試唱。

如果時間允許，你還可以成為固定成員，參與每週的排練！

時間：4/17 & 4/24週四早上十點

地點：台北靠近六張犁

立刻報名：聯繫馬克 (mark@fusica.nl)

 

 

聲音的共鳴 年度團體 (額滿)｜R E S O N A N C E   YEARGROUP – FULL

三月- 五月 2025  March – April – May 2025

The finest and most complete in-person introduction to overtone singing and overall

resonance of voice, mind and body, running for over ten years.

Early bird discounts up to January 31st!

Now in a new hybrid format:

– 4 weeks online

– 4 days group practise in Hualien

– 2 days round-up in Taipei

– including 1-on-1 session

Go to the special  R E S O N A N C E page.

Details coming soon.

聲音的四季冒險之旅 

四月 – 十二月 2025. April – December 2025

在這個資訊過載的時代，我們可以學習任何想要的技能。簡報技巧、業績提升、AI應用…這些都是回應社會需求的實用技能。但你是否感到有些疲乏？你是否曾真正探索過自己的聲音？
「台灣泛音詠唱協會」 理事長Mark老師與「中華好好說話，學會」理事長賴佩霞，將一起為你創造聲音的火花，為你點燃創造力，玩轉聲音。這不僅是一門關於人聲的課程，更是一場徹底釋放力量的聲音嘉年華。
那個內心深處一直呼喚的聲音：「不管什麼都好，我好想冒險一次！」現在，機會來了。
🌿課程時間🌿
春｜啟動，自由表達的旅程 : 2025/04/26 (六) 14:00 ~ 17:00
夏｜綻放，讓溝通充滿色彩 : 2025/07/12 (六) 14:00 ~ 17:00
秋｜傾聽，創造有共鳴的對話: 2025/09/06 (六) 14:00 ~ 17:00
冬｜沈浸，讓聲音展開力量: 2025/12/14 (日) 14:00 ~ 17:00
🍁課程特色🍁
這堂課充滿即興元素，你永遠無法預測下一刻的發展。在這裡，你將體驗到平靜與喧囂的絕妙融合，感受踏腳的節奏，讓激情在心中燃燒！你可以全情投入，或只是靜靜觀察，一切由你決定！
🌷課程收穫🌷
將由兩位聲音藝術家馬克老師與賴佩霞老師共同帶領，帶你體驗跨越全球音樂風格的獨特體驗，輕鬆歡樂的帶領你探索自己的聲音魅力，學習掌握自己的聲音與力量，在溝通上悠游自在！
𖤐 運用聲音 增進對話影響力
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Discovering Lin Shuen-Long’s PEI

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Early Summer IUooUI was invited to sing for the opening of a new Art Museum in Yingge. A beautiful backdrop for our concert, so we gladly accepted and prepared a special program, since it would be an outdoor stage. Upon arrival on a sunny Saturday morning, it turned out that the museum did not show its beautiful surface, but was clad in scaffolding; it also turned out that the backdrop of our designated spot was not the museum at all, but the main stage for the bands that would be featured later; and if that was not enough, contractors were still busy doing construction work using noisy drills. For us, the performance was a disaster, though some listeners had milder opinions.

 

Upon arrival I had noticed a fascinating adobe-colored tower on the grasslands surrounding the museum. I had had a quick look and listen but was most eager to explore it more indepth and invited my singers to join me after the concert. It turned out to be a splendid work of art, of architecture, or something in between. A sonorous temple graced with the most intricate light patterns I have ever seen on adobe-like structures (earthy hues have been my favorite at least since the beginning of this millennium). These shifting light rays are the result of several horizontal slits placed in irregular intervals along the body of the tower. We stood in awe, listened in awe, walked around in awe. Notwithstanding the presence of a few other visitors, we began quite naturally to emit our first tones. The resulting resonance was as soft and layered as the plastered walls, which had uneven, undulating surfaces that still showed the signs of paintbrushes. Our voices bounced off the walls in a pleasant, smooth way, not as crystal-like and pure as glass-covered structures, but with a coarser grain of sound.

 

 

Walking around, you would hear your own sound, or someone else’s suddenly shifting from one direction to a totally different direction. Or even enveloping you from all sides. It is a familiar but surreal phenomenon in many round, resonant spaces with the wall or ceiling curving inward. In certain spots someone who is standing opposite you talking or singing, sounds as if she is behind you.

I knew already during the first glimpse: this is the kind of place I have been looking for in Taiwan for more than ten years. As time passed I knew I had to temper my expectations. There were occasional resonant places, like the one I had stept into earlier this year, but those were usually not very suitable for performing, or not very pleasant to be in, or too expensive or too inaccessible. This new tower was in fact many times better than what I had ever expected. It was not just a sonic treasure, which I somehow usually imagined to be a white or grey space, or otherwise colourless. This was the most intimate, warm, lush light I had seen in years, if I had ever been in such a building at all. It simply seemed to breath by itself already.

We did some more research and learnt to our astonishment that this treasure was not part of the newly opened museum, but it had been standing there for 14 years. Some months later, Sunny noticed an announcement of an event in the tower with the architect, the next day: the day when IUooUI rehearses! I quickly jotted down a simple idea we could sing and shared it. We rehearsed it in the morning and set out to the museum. Exactly at the designated time, the architect appeared from a hidden door, as if coming from nowhere. In the center of the spiraling form he began to talk casually about the history of his tower, its symbolism, problems he had overcome, adaptations to the original idea and more. The place came alive even stronger with these stories. Pei, as the tower is called, really was opened 14 years ago and virtually nothing happened with it, to the chagrin of the architect, Lin Shuen Long.

During the Q&A we introduced ourselves and asked if we could sing a piece to honour the architect and his creation. We spread out and sang Pi:Ecce (I thought the name of the tower was Pi, not Pei). I then started an improvised piece which IUooUI completed beautifully with several solo parts. The architect was enthusiastic about our musical performances and told me something that moved me to the core: “this tower has been waiting for you for fourteen years”.

 

 

This place is a treasure, a multi-faceted gem of a building. Not designed with a 3-D program, but by bare hands with mud or clay, just like all that amazing pottery that the small town of Yingge is famous for. Some pottery shops in Yingge have a history of 500 years behind them, and took their technology with them from the mainland. There is no more suitable architectural tribute to the town then a tower designed like most pottery is designed: from an ancient, artisanal practise. We can be greatful to the decisions-makers who planned to build something like this, for chosing this architect, and for both parties to overcome all the hurdles necessary to complete the project. And what is 14 years in the light of generations of pottery making? Now let’s hope steps are taken soon to celebrate the incredible potential of this tower, both visually and acoustically!

Our more or less failed outdoor performance on that early Summer day happened for a good reason. I feel blessed that we ran into something so special.

O TRIOM remembers Michael Vetter

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During one of my concerts in Taucha, Germany, last month, I asked the audience who knows the name Michael Vetter. Several people raised their hands. But as I expected, many people at the Ancient Trance Festival don’t know his name. Of course, quite a few more may have heard his music in the Age of Spotify: you listen but don’t know what album is playing, now that a physical relationship to the medium (as in the time of LPs, CDs) is outdated. Besides, Ancient Trance is not exactly overlapping with Vetter’s artistic direction. He was much more avant-garde, with musical influences from Baroque to Dada and Fluxus, and a host of visual influences, from mediaeval religious painting and Chinese calligraphy to comics.

In the next few weeks O TRIOM is looking back at the life and work of the instrumentalist, vocalist, painter, poet, pedagogue and ordained Zen master Michael Vetter (1943-2013). We will be showing how his legacy continues to inspire, inform and transform our performing today in several concerts, a lecture and workshops. Why? Certainly not because Vetter was such a fine overtone singer. There are and have been many fine overtone singers, and Vetter’s style of singing and performing was one of many – not ‘just’ one of many, but a very influential one, to be sure. In the 1980s, anyone wanting to do something with overtone singing went to Vetter’s workshops and bought his albums, at least in very active German-speaking areas (and The Netherlands too). Vetter set certain standards for overtone singing, for a certain period of time, and those standards hardly changed.

 

Michael Vetter making Indian ink drawings, Academia Caparaia, Italy, 2009. (Photograph Mark van Tongeren under protection of Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND)

The interest of O TRIOM in Vetter also started with overtone singing, but soon branched out in many other directions. For example: Vetter as a typical Zen Buddhist. He insists again and again that one should give undivided attention to what one is doing when making music (or anything else, though he would not talk about anything, but about art). And he applied this attitude in all his music, and all his other creative work, as well as his cooking and everyday life. When I read and re-read his texts, or when I go through the conversations we had and the interviews I did with him, I frequently stumble upon contradictions (literally: ‘counter-speaking’) concerning his spiritual or religious outlook. You may be looking to clarify his positions towards spiritual questions, and find that he has much to say about that. Many people felt he was a very religious person and his biography testifies to that. Certainly a believer! But then you will sooner or later find a remark in which he warns for overzealous religious interpretations. “Here and there one learns about the connection between overtones and Our Lord. That is far removed from me!” And yet, many of his art and music works bear very clear Christian (and not just Zen) elements.

It seems that it does not make sense. And that is exactly what we can take away from Michael Vetter (or maybe from Zen in general), and what keeps me coming back to him for fresh insights: there is no single, or final way to talk about or do anything. There are only temporarily, or partially ‘true’ or ‘convincing’ arguments to believe, or positions to take. As soon as one clings too much to certain truths, it is time to let it go again and look for yet another perspective .

In the weeks to come we will prepare ourselves with this in mind: try as best as you can to follow certain aesthetic and creative paths, and be always willing to throw them overboard again and replace them with something new. I am excited about this moment in our O TRIOM collaboration, which began in early 2022, if I remember well. And I salute the brilliant artist who bridged so many visions and visuals, sounds and musics, thoughts and dreams in a lifetime bursting with creative output.

 

Read an earlier post about why we should remember Michael Vetter here.

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Lecture Transverbal

Time: 6th October (Friday) 2023, 19:00-21:30

Location: Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, 2rd floor

Speaker: prof. CHUNG Mingder (Department of Theatre Arts, TNUA), Mark van Tongeren, LU Qi Chung, LEE Wei Lin

 

Workshop Michael Vetter’s Overtone Singing Methods

Time: 13th October (Friday) 2023, 10:00-17:00

Location: Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, 3rd floor

Facilitator: LU Qi Chung, LEE Wei Lin

 

Workshop OKYO

Time: 17th October (Tuesday) 2023, 10:00-17:00

Location: Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre 3rd floor

Facilitator: Mark van Tongeren

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Overtone Singing Concert for Michael Vetter

21st October (Saturday) 2023, 19:00

22nd October (Sunday) 2023, 14:00

Location: Dreamphony Hall (No. 59, Lane 97, Guangrong Rd, Luzhou District, New Taipei City, Taiwan 247)

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O TRIOM Artists

LEE Wei Lin

LU Qi Chung

Mark van Tongeren

Production

Organizer| Taiwan Overtone Singing Association TOSA
Executive Producer  | Lee Chichen
Visual Design  | Bai Chi Hao
Image source | Michael Vetter

Lecture| prof. CHUNG Mingder

Taiwan Overtone Singing Association is also on Facebook.

Photos from a 2014 concert by O TRIOM

 

 

 

 

 

O TRIOM 紀念米歇爾·費特大師 系列泛音講座、工作坊暨音樂會

 

【講座】《Transverbal穿越言語》與大師相遇

時間 2023/10/6（五） 19:00-21:30

地點 牯嶺街小劇場二樓藝文空間

講者 鍾明德教授（北藝大戲劇系）、Mark van Tongeren、呂啓仲、李維琳

與談者將說談泛音音樂在台灣發展的故事，從當年北藝大邀請國外泛音音樂家來台傳藝及演出，到《OM泛唱作為藝乘》一書的誕生，泛音藝術家米歇爾・費特大師的生平創作故事，及至往後泛音音樂在台灣生根2022年台灣泛音詠唱協會TOSA的成立。

＊同場放映呂啓仲拍攝之泛音藝術家費特大師來台紀錄片《Transverbal穿越語言的相遇》。

 

 

 

【工作坊】「米歇爾．費特的泛音詠唱法門」

時間 2023/10/13（五） 10:00-17:00

地點 牯嶺街小劇場三樓排練場

講師 呂啓仲、李維琳

｜工作坊內容｜

介紹「泛音唱法」，引領學員如何唱和體驗泛音，藉由唱出和聽到泛音，踏上精神的探險之旅。

 

 

 

【工作坊】「大師OKYO唱誦」工作坊

時間 2023/10/17（二） 10:00-17:00

地點 牯嶺街小劇場三樓排練場

講師 Mark van Tongeren

 

本工作坊將概述 Michael Vetter 的創作生涯，觀察他的作品中音樂/聲音和禪宗幾個主題，以及 20 世紀 90 年代及之後歐洲對禪宗日益增長的興趣如何與費特的作品呼應，以及他如何自由地採用“okyo”並對其進行改造。並一起唱送費特的okyo以及馬克本身創作的365則向費特致敬的 okyo。

點此報名工作坊＆講座

O TRIOM 米歇爾‧費特大師 紀念音樂會

 

時間：

2023/10/21  六 19:00

2023/10/22 日  14:00

 

地點：

夢響廳 Dreamphony Hall

新北市蘆洲區光榮路97巷59號

**捷運蘆洲站步行約5分鐘**

演出者：Mark van Tongeren．呂啓仲．李維琳

三位聲音表演者以跨越言語的表達探索人聲表現的邊界，以他們的人聲演唱以及器樂聲響，延展意義能夠被接收及傳達的邊界，每位聽者能以個人的想像穿越這場聲音表情與意義的互動。

人聲聲音的深深冥想，耳朵為覺察細緻的泛音而內在油然寧靜下來。

踏上一場聲音旅程，深入聲響的世界以及內在生命。人聲與物質物件的探索，不停變化的聲音風景，多層次且豐富，人聲騎乘在器樂的聲響上遨遊，深入潛出，引領聽者進入集體聽覺意識的深處。人聲的合聲搭建起一個強力的通道，彷彿直通天廳的音柱，他們聲音的通道能讓聽者通往似曾相識又聞所未聞得疆域。

OKYO詩文唱誦，極簡而留白，這是泛音音樂傳承的其一精神支脈。本演出亦是對開創性的德國藝術家、作家、教育家米歇爾·費特（Michael Vetter，1943-2013）的生平及創作致敬，他將所有作品的總體概念命名為《Transverbal》—穿越言語。

 音樂會購票點此 

 

 

 

O TRIOM 演出者

李維琳
呂啓仲
Mark van Tongeren 馬克・范・湯可鄰

製作團隊

主辦單位| |台灣泛音詠唱協會

執行製作  | 李紀辰

視覺設計 |  白濟豪

圖片來源 | Michael Vetter

講座講者| 鍾明德教授

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Read an earlier post about why we should remember Michael Vetter here.

 

Book Launch 1, 2 & 3

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Join me this weekend for the first of three launch events of the book and album Overtone Singing. The first one will be most suitable for people on Asian time (Saturday 7 January  at 12 AM for Taipei/Hong Kong) and LA time (US) on Friday 6 January at 8 PM). The second one takes place in NYC (Saturday 14, evening) and Asia (Sunday 15, morning). A third launch in European time will happen on February 4.

I will look back on 30 years of research as a singer and musicologist, tell stories, sing some demos and pieces and there will be one or more special guests to say a word about this book or their own experiences in the field of overtone singing. There will be a short Q&A at the end too.

Please celebrate this occasion with me. We will braodcast on the Fusica YouTube channel. If you would like to receive a notice or subscribe to other notifications, write an email to Jane Tsai by clicking here:   jame79522@gmail.com.

All information about the book is here.

 

LAUNCH #1

WESTCOAST US

Friday January 6

20-21:30 LA time

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Saturday January 7

12-13:30 TW/HK time

The FB event page

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LAUNCH #2

EASTCOAST US

Saturday January 14

20-21:30 NY time

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Sunday January 15

9-10:30 TW/HK time

The FB event page

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LAUNCH #3

EUROPE

Saturday February 4

13-14:30 C.E. TIME

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Saturday February 4

20-21:30 TW/HK time

The FB event page

https://www.facebook.com/events/1187454068549532/?ref=newsfeed

 

 

Official worldwide release date: January 10.

Global distribution everywhere through The MIT Press / Penguin Random House.

Available NOW through Fusica and Terra Nova Press.

Book (pre)orders: Publisher Terra Nova

https://www.terranovapress.com/books/overtonesinging

Or as a package with the Anthology album:

https://markvantongeren.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-overtone-singing

 

The book in short:

The Overtone Singing Book

Book and Audio Anthology published

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A few days ago, Overtone Singing – Hidden Dimensions of the Human Voice has arrived at its distribution centers in the US (NY), Europe (Haarlem) and Taiwan (Longtan). Publisher David Rothenberg produced a beautiful midway solution between paperback and hardcover book, called ‘flexibound.’

That was the signal to also let the Anthology of Overtone Singing go public. First of all on Bandcamp, where the audio is now available for streaming or purchasing. I also submitted all tracks to Apple Music, Spotify etc. etc. 25 Artists that are not featured on Apple Music and Spotify yet now will be represented there. It took me about a year of preparations and it meant not a small thing to press that ‘SUBMIT’ button to me.

 

 

 

So book and music are available now from Terra Nova Press, from me and next week also from a European address. We are still working out the best solution to offer the music and the book in one go. For the moment, the book is available through Terra Nova Press and by writing to me directly, while the Anthology is available in Bandcamp. Possibly we offer both in one package very soon.

There is a limited number of books available with a CD that is nearly identical with the streaming version from Bandcamp: just two tracks have been shortened a bit to fit onto the CD format. Details will soon be published on Bandcamp; you can also write to me if that is what you need.

The major platforms will  start selling and shipping the book in December or January.

For now, get it directly from one of us!

Book on Terra Nova Press:

https://www.terranovapress.com/books/overtonesinging

Book and/or Anthology Album on Bandcamp:

https://markvantongeren.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-overtone-singing

 

You will find more details about the book on this page.

 

Overtone Singing Book Pre-Sale started

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After three years of editing (text), drawing, scanning (illustrations), mastering (audio) and revising under the guidance of very capable editors, Overtone Singing – Hidden Dimensions of the Human Voice is now getting ready for printing and distributing. It was nearly 20 years ago when I first met the new publisher, David Rothenberg, in his upstate New York village, after attending the Small Publisher’s Fair in New York City. We became friends, met here and there every once in a while and kept up a correspondence about many issues, such as the music of birds and other creatures, which is his special theme. Some years ago he launched his own press and so we came to talk about my book Overtone Singing, which needed a thorough update and revision.

Pre-order Overtone Singing at your local bookstore (US only)

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Many things have been changed compared to the original book, so much so that I think this is the definitive version. Why? Because the contents became more and more integrated, my views more balanced, I dared to speak out criticisms more clearly, I updated myself about aspects that I thought were poorly represented (such as the healing and therapeutic aspects of overtones). Not to mention the development of the field itself in these 20 years: female overtone singers are once again well-established instead of marginal, the khöömei ‘traditions’ have developed in many directions and become modern in many ways, and they have popped up in new places where we did not really expect them (such as China, to mention one controversial case I discuss).

 

I also had the great fortune to do research about the ‘multi-part’ (that is, choral) traditions of overtone singing (Tibet, South Africa, Sardinia) and to make recordings there. I am quite proud about the accompanying audio guide, which is now called The Anthology of Overtone Singing and will be available in many places soon. I have been to nearly every place with an overtone singing tradition and keep on investigating these fascinating traditions in person, wherever I can. I think my new Physics chapter sets a good standard for what is possible technically, with updated drawings by own hand. The lessons learnt from several projects for which I have created new works for overtone singers have been really important for that: the Paraphony Laboratory and the Parafonia group, the Superstringtrio, and now IUooUI in Taiwan. In another way this book finally got the form I had always wanted it to be. Despite the help of several capable readers and editors in previous versions, there were still quite some mistakes in terms of English usage. Thanks to a thorough review process, there is no more engrish now!

 

 

What we are hoping for now, is to get enough backers for the crowdfunding campaign. OK, let me explain, for those who get confused. Crowdfunding is when you buy and pay for something that does not yet exist, but which you hope and wish will go into production: a book or music project, or a new model electric toothbrush – it can be anything, really. A backer is internet lingo for a supporter, which is simply a client who buys something, or someone who pays more to support a project and receives something extra on top. So without further ado, please check out the campaign for the Overtone Singing book on indiegogo.com, and order a book by clicking on the link below.

 

You will be among the first to receive the book and I will be eternally grateful to you! If you have any questions or problems with Indiegogo, you can always write to me directly.

You will find all the details about the book on this page.

 

 

 

 

Pictured from top to bottom: Sainkho Namtchylak with guitarist Kazuhisa Uchihashi; singers from Castelsardo, Sardinia; Musicians from Nqoko, South Africa; Khöömei Day in Tuva, 2018;Andreï Öpei and Valeriy Mongush from Tuva; the author with Trân Quang Hai, renowned overtone singing researcher, onstage in Kyzyl, Tuva, 1995.

Introducing: IUooUI

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A new group called IUooUI is going to give its first series of full performances. Most of us know each other for many years now and share a deep passion for overtone singing, throat singing and improvising with voices and instruments, as well as work on the body-mind relationship. We decided to take it a step further and create surprising performances based on all those amazing sessions we had during workshops throughout the years. We all have dreams and desires to bring the music in our heads alive, for others to hear. This is a challenge. We leave the intimate comfort zone of a workshop space. We are ready to confront an audience of curious listeners in unusual settings, and to envelop them with our resonances, overtones, mantras, syllables, shrieks, assisted by drums, Jew’s Harps, shruti boxes and more.

 

 

 

The name UIooUI stands for the mantra-and sutra-like phrases that we often use, inspired by the okyo of Michael Vetter (1943-2013). Michael transformed these traditional Japanese sutras to expand his own musical language, and this has become part of my own language now. IuooUI also stands for:

 

Of course, the syllables i-u-o-o-u-i  make a small overtone piece in themselves.

The name was proposed by our in-house poet, Amang, whose Chinese name is Yü, which is the last part of IUooUI when it is pronounced as a three-character Mandarin syllabe, yiwoyu.

Our in-house designer JiJi Liu created the logo for us.

 

The name TWEAKS refers to the process of tweaking, adjusting, making things better by smaller or sometimes bigger changes. It is my hope that next week we can really tweak all the musical elements so that they keep on growing, changing and move towards a more refined shape. This week, at least, some of us were still busy tweaking, like JiJi and Sky, who came up with this after the dress rehearsal:

 

 

It has been inspiring to see how busy all members got in recent months to prepare for this first complete performance. They have been working diligently on their sounds and pieces, of which more than half is composed by themselves in smaller units. They took care of sound and light, finding equipment and personnel to handle it, costumes …

 

Earlier this year we have done some smaller performance, to warm up, and as teasers for our bigger program.

 

DATES and TIMES

Sunday August 21 – 19:30

Wednesday August 24 – 19:30

Friday August 26 – 15:00 and 19:30

Sunday August 28 – 19:30

The performances will be held at VENUE, on its 5F space, No. 10, Lane 107, Linsen North Road. This is a bustling area and if you have the time, you can have diner before at a nice Japanese restaurant, Umeko, right next door to VENUE  (no. 8)!

Limited 20% discounted tickets available, please write to: iuooui.taiwan@gmail.com
to secure your seat. Tickets: https://www.opentix.life/event/1536284030369976325

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IUooUI : 全新泛音詠唱團體的誕生
8月底，我們有些很令人興奮的活動即將發生。首先，我們的全新泛音詠唱團體IUooUI即將正式演出。我們的團員彼此認識很多年了，也都非常熱愛泛唱、喉唱、人聲與樂器的即興。我們決定要向前邁進一步，然後把我們每次一起唱歌所發展出的創作變成一個演出。我們都懷抱著，想要讓別人聽到我們心裡所聽見的聲音的夢想。這是一個挑戰。離開了工作坊的舒適圈，我們現在已經準備好面對一群觀眾，希望能夠用我們的共鳴、泛音、梵咒、音節、發聲，伴隨著鼓聲、口簧琴、印度風琴等等。我們很希望能夠在2022臺北藝穗節《泛⾳九釀》的五場演出中與你相見。
8月【漪渦⿂】 就要正式公演了~
我們即將參與 2022臺北藝穗節，一共演出5場~
1:【8/21 19:30】 (日) 晚
2:【8/24 19:30】 (三) 晚
3:【8/26 15:00】 (五) 午
4:【8/26 19:30】 (五) 晚
5:【8/28 19:30】 (日) 晚

演出資訊: https://www.opentix.life/event/1536284030369976325

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