Thursday, March 23, 2023

Haley Reinhart Vocal Cracking cracks the code of Tuvan throat multiphonic overtone singing

 Tuvan singers can merge multiple formants to create one exceedingly sharpened formant.

“The Tuvans are able to make this sound through such precise control of their vocal track that they can kind of tease these things out and create simultaneously sounds. One of the things that’s so remarkable about it is that it doesn’t sound like any human could do this, to have that degree of motor control,” Bergevin says.

“Potentially anyone could learn to do this,” Story says, “but it takes a lot of practice.”

https://www.futurity.org/tuvan-throat-singing-mystery-solved-2306632/ 

The most important feature however, is that there are two distinct and relevant constrictions when in the focused state, corresponding roughly to the uvula and alveolar ridge. Additionally, the vocal tract is expanded in the region just anterior to the alveolar ridge (Figure 4A). The retroflex position of the tongue tip and blade produces a constriction at 14 cm, and also results in the opening of this sublingual space. It is the degree of constriction at these two locations that is hypothesized to be the primary mechanism for creating and controlling the frequency at which the formant is focused.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/50476 

 https://iiif.elifesciences.org/lax/50476%2Felife-50476-fig4-v3.tif/full/1500,/0/default.jpg

 So the tongue up against the roof of the mouth as the "alveolar ridge" is the secret of the double octave overtone! 

Thank you for acknowledging that "little bit of crack here" when she has that very subtle octave overtone inhale approach. 3:02 You're the FIRST vocal coach to comment on that very subtle overtone "crack"! thanks. I've watched two other vocal coaches already - no mention of it! thanks. Wow you even RECREATED the "crack" when you said, "and there again"!! 4:45

Rebecca vocal coach nails the secret overtone vocal cracking of Haley Reinhart

 They hadn't even planned to record this. They used a day off while on tour to record some other songs. This version was originally done for another singer but Haley had fallen in love with it and done a great job with it on stage the night before so Scott asked her if she wanted to record it. She was hesitant because her voice was a bit tired from the tour but agreed to do a single take. And that take was all it took!

 It was on their day off at a recording studio in Zurich, Switzerland during their 2015 European tour after a week of touring. Haley had only joined PMJ a week before in Berlin, asked if she could perform Scott's Radiohead in Lyon France, they recorded this shortly after. Scott has famously retold the "One Take" story of Creep and has even dedicated a section of his book to the song and Haley's cover of it.

FairyVoice confirms that Haley is using her tongue to maintain the high pitch stability 

That Creep cover you just reacted to by Haley Reinhart with PMJ, stayed on the Billboard Digital Jazz Chart for 58 straight weeks in a row.

 Creep was the third of 3 songs PMJ recorded on their day off in Zurich, Switzerland in the middle of their 2015 European tour. Haley had asked to perform it for the first time in Lyon, France days before.

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