You don’t often hear throat singing — a traditional vocal technique for singing in overtones. Generally the domain of goat-herding Tuvans or Tibetan monks, it’s rarely performed by Americans. But ...

The musical quartet Huun Huur Tu will bring an innovative genre of music that combines traditional instruments and funky rhythms when it visits SUNY Cortland on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The group, from ...

It sounds like a handful of hummingbirds taunting an ogre: a fluctuating, high-pitched series of harmonics and a low, guttural drone coming out of a person’s voicebox at the same time. It’s eerie.

For those who think the human voice can produce only one note at a time, the resonant harmonies of throat-singing are surprising. In throat-singing, a singer can produce two or more notes ...

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa -- Master throat singers Alash will perform with an ancient style of singing at 9 a.m. March 21 at Dordt College in the B.J. Haan Auditorium. The quartet from Tuva, a tiny republic ...

The prestigious film festival is hosting the international première of their 3 1/2-minute short Throat Singing in Kangirsuk. PARK CITY, UTAH — The first rule of throat singing is no laughing. And ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Tuvan ensemble Alash demonstrates various traditional throat singing styles that they use in their music. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings video.

ALASH (Tuvan throat singers! -- the world is a big place with some music traditions you may never have heard of, “Outer Mongolia” produced the throat singers and if you’ve never heard it you won’t ...