The Myth of The
Infinite Voice
lecture/demonstration
19:30 – 20:15pm Saturday 8th April 2006
as
part of the
Giving Voice Festival
For booking please visit www.givingvoice.org.uk or www.thecpr.org.uk
Or telephone +44 (0)1970
622133 Email cprwww@aber.ac.uk
Centre for Performance Research (CPR) 6, Science Park Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3AH Wales, UK.
Mongolian Overtone Singing (Khöömii) is steeped in Myth. The herds-people's legends speak of its origins in the sounds of wind on water being echoed in the mountains. In the old times some singers could call the air and water spirits with the sound of Khöömii. Outside the tradition the symbolic and physical meaning of harmonic overtones series has placed another layer of myth upon this esoteric style where one person sings a strong guttural drone
and at the same time high "flute-like" melodic harmonic.
The lecture/demonstration will
reveal these myths from the light of Michael Ormiston
who has travelled to Mongolia many times and studied Khöömii within the
tradition.