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Tuva Throat SingersA video about Tuvan throat singing that features Shonchalai Oorzhak-Choodu, wife of Alash member Nachyn Choodu. Produced by Journeyman Pictures, London, UK
Fundamental Research on Musical Culture of Tuva in the Twentieth Century Ready for PublishingTranslated by Sean Quirk and Theodore Levin
Tuva Online, May 2, 2007
Famous Tuvan music researcher Valentina Suzukei has finished her multifacetous study of Tuvan music culture in the XXth century. ...
Timbral ListeningWikipedia
...In Timbral Listening "pitch is subordinate to timbre." Instead, the specific quality of a musical tone is determined by considering "the presence, distribution and relative amplitude of overtones." ...
Tuva OveriewNational Geographic: World Music
... But perhaps the best example of what has happened to the region's music as a result of not only Soviet control but also of Western influence is Alash, a group of Tuvans who learned Western notation on stringed instruments that were hybridized versions of traditional ones....
The Art of Tuva Throat SingingOn Point with Tom Ashbrook (NPR)
There is a land at the vast, windswept meeting of Siberia and Mongolia, where humankind's most ancient, nomadic past still lives in song....
The Throat Singers of TuvaScientific American, September 1999 [PDF]
Testing the limits of vocal ingenuity, throat-singers can create sounds unlike anything in ordinary speech and song ...
Throat-Singing, a unique vocalization from three culturesSmithsonian Global Sound Feature
Throat-singing, a guttural style of singing or chanting, is one of the world's oldest forms of music. ...
Tuvan National OrchestraAlash, Sean Quirk, and other well-known Tuvan musicians are members.
Tiny Tuva Is Making Big Sound in World Of Off-Beat MusicWall Street Journal, April 1, 2006
... "I was watching a martial-arts demonstration, when all of a sudden I heard this, uuuuuuuiiiiiieeeeerrrrrrraaaaaahhhh," ... (This article, which was published in the Wall Street Journal, is available online at www.khoomei.com. Scroll down to the post by "godzilla")
Khoomei.comSteve Sklar's website about khoomei with articles, lessons, photos, and videos.
Megan Romer's Throat Singing 101Tuvan Throat Singing Basics: Tuvan throat singers are able to, through shaping their throat, lips and mouth, produce a number of tones at once.
Khoomei HOW-TOA small collection of resources to get anyone started throat singing
Overtone Singing, WikipediaOvertone singing, also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or harmonic chant, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the harmonic resonances ...
Throat-Singing, All Music Guide, Fall 2001Throat singing is a particular type of vocalizing that, in the West, was known almost exclusively by scholars, until quite recently. ...
Tuvan Throat Singing and the Legend of the Horse Head FiddleSarah Wallin, 2005 [PDF only]
... the Horse Head Fiddle is an important part of Tuvan pastoral music. According to ancient Mongolian legend ...
Overview on Overtones, Numen Music Center, DjembeIn the world of sound, overtones occupy the place of the magician. ...
A miraculous method of singingExercised by a number of Central Asian tribes, throat singing is a peculiar vocal art with three basic vocalizing methods ...
Overtone Singing, Vocal MultiphonicsAlso known by the term Harmonic Singing, this is a special vocal technique originating in the Altai - Tuvan - Mongolian region which allows the singer to produce more than one musical note at once. ...
Meistersingers of the Steppe... arguably the most technically virtuosic vocalists in the world are the herdsmen of Tuva ... singing to themselves in the otherworldly multiple tones of the khoomei style ...
Musical ArchaeologyTucson Weekly, January 30, 1997
... the art of imitation is rooted in a centuries-old world view of music as an offering .... The end result is a strange, beautiful tapestry of sound and rhythm that taps into something more real, more authentic, than anything you'll likely find on the American musical landscape. ...
Music of Tuva, Wikipedia... There is debate as to the exact number of styles or techniques the Tuvans use in their throat singing....
Tuva-Irish ProjectAll About Jazz, May 15, 2007
If the collaboration between a Tuvan throat singer and an Irish laptop-ist sounds an unlikely combination, the end results fully justify the experiment. ...
Three features from Russia Today - Fifth International Xöömei Symposium (24-28 July 2008), Wayfarer: Destination Tyva (11 July 2008), and Republic of Tyva (3-6 September 2007)Videos about Tyva and throat singing, including two interviews with Sean Quirk.
Voices from the Center of AsiaLink to tracks from the CD
Every Tuvan Maker of Traditional Instruments should Preserve his Own StyleTuvaOnline, November 15, 2005
... A seminar devoted to the problems and prospects of the Tuvan traditional instruments was organized by the Centre of Folk Arts headed by Zoya Mongush. ...
Tuva Throat SingersNPR, All Things Considered, September 5, 1999
... NPR's Michele Kelemen visited Tuva, and reports that officials there are hoping interest in Tuvan music will attract attention to this poor region. ...
The Throat Singers of TuvaScientific American, September 1999 [PDF]
Testing the limits of vocal ingenuity, throat-singers can create sounds unlike anything in ordinary speech and song ...
Overtone singing, Chen-Gia TsaiThe voice of overtone singing is characterized by a prominent formant. In this spectrum of a sound produced by a Taiwanese overtone singer, the 10th harmonic is stronger than its flanking components by more than 25 dB. ...
Harmonic singing vs normal singing, science@unswWe explain some of the acoustics of harmonic singing (also called diphonic singing, overtone singing, xoomi singing, sygyt singing, throat singing, Tuva singing etc)
Overtone Singing, Utrecht University, PhoneticsThis is a demonstration of overtone singing. ... You will hear a whistle over the drone of the fundamental and lower harmonics. ...
Vocal fold and ventricular fold vibration in period-doubling phonation: Physiological description and aerodynamic modeling [PDF only]... their vibration has been observed during specific vocal gestures: Asian throat singing. ...
Tuvan Overtone Singing: Harmonics Out of Place... Based on the results of acoustic analysis of Xoomei conducted at SAVAIL, I would like to argue that the physical act of creating overtones may originate in vowel production, but the end product (the actual overtones themselves) are far from vowel-like. ...
TUVA Throat Singing... While it sounds as though the singer is producing two separte tones at the same time, this is not true. ... the singer is altering and sharpening the resonance of that vocal tract so as to produce one single very sharp ... resonance at about 2000Hz. ...
How to Sing Three Notes at the Same TimeLa Scena Musicale - Vol. 2, No. 9, June 1, 1997
... one person can sing in chords and can also provide a melody. ...
Time and weatherCurrent time and weather in Kyzyl, capital of Tuva
Правительство Республики Тыва (Government of the Republic of Tuva)ОФициальный сайт
Tuva-Online (English)News Agency of the Russian Republic of Tuva. English edition.
Тува-Онлайн (Tuva-Online, Russian)Тува-Онлайн - это первое информационное агентство Республики Тува.
The discovery of an outstanding "royal" burial of the Scythian period in TuvaHermitage News, 2006
Joint Russo-German scientific team excavates and studies an undisturbed grave from the 6th-5th century B.C.
Three features from Russia Today - Fifth International Xöömei Symposium (24-28 July 2008), Wayfarer: Destination Tyva (11 July 2008), and Republic of Tyva (3-6 September 2007)Videos about Tyva and throat singing, including two interviews with Sean Quirk.
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples OrganizationTuva page of UNPO, an international forum for peoples who are not represented in international fora such as the U.N.
Tuva, Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online (English)General information about the Republic of Tuva (Tyva)
Tuva, WikipediaGeography, history, and demographics of the Tyva Republic.
TyvaWikiA repository for information about Tyva.
Tuva, Center of AsiaThe republic of Tuva, with an area of 170,500 square kilometers, is one of the least known regions in Siberia, and maybe one of the most remarkable. ...
Sami Jansson's journey to TuvaTravelogue with links to photos.
Some information on TuvaInteresting tidbits about Tuva. Links to photos of exhibitions. A link to send free musical postcards of Tuva. By Cornelie Müller-Gödecke.
Talking DictionaryTuvan-English English-Tuvan, Tuvan language and culture portal at Swarthmore College.
Tuvan LanguageThe Tuvan language (Tyva dyl), also known as Tuvinian language, is one of the Turkic languages (A subfamily of Altaic languages). ...
Tyva google mapSatellite images of Tyva from maplandia.com
Kyzyl, capital of Tyva, wikimapiaSatellite images of Tyva from wikimapia.org
Tuva, maps.live.comRoad, aerial, and hybrid map.
SBS Dateline: A Shaman's PrayerStory by video journalist Nick Lazaredes about Tuvan shamans. Three musicians from Alash are featured in the segment about throat singing.
Tuva, Land of EaglesArticle about the 1993 Expedition to Tuva by The Foundation for Shamanic Studies
On the plurality of world perceptions: The Case of West Tyvans in South SiberiaAnett C. Oelschlaegel, an Associate Researcher at the Siberian Studies Centre of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, studies questions of interpretation of the world, religion, and divination in Western Tyva.
Keeper of the Reindeer of the Great Taiga... For three days, the reindeer herder Oleg Orai-ool became the most popular person in the taiga spa "Ush-Beldir", in the East of Tuva ... There are not many [reindeer herders] left in the Todzha district - the only place in Tuva where reindeer herders live. ...
The Republic of TuvaFive short films by Jonathan Smith and David Gala documenting their trip to Tuva in 2002, including a visit to a working yurt.
WikiTravel TuvaTuva is on the border with Mongolia and shares much in common with the adjacent Mongolian regions....
Tran Quang Hai's WorldEthnomusicologist Tran Quang Hai maintins a blog with many interesting links related to Tuvan throat singing and other types of overtone singing.
MongolianArtist.comThe latest in Mongolian arts and culture from hundreds of sources across the Web.
Traditional Music and Instruments of the Mongolian peopleThe traditional Mongolian Folk music is influenced by the large variety of tribes ... (site includes photos of traditional instruments)
Music of Mongolia, Wikipedia... Traditional long-songs are one of the greatest features of Mongolian music....
Mongolian Music, Sound Transformations Website... On this site you can find out about Mongolian Khöömii (Overtone) Singing, Mongolian Traditional Music...
Mongolian Music, Interview with Altai-Hangai, Asia Source websiteAltai-Hangai is a Mongolian musical group that fuses the sounds of traditional throat-singing and horse-head fiddle with contemporary forms of jazz....
Music of Altai, Wikipedia... The performance of traditional epics, accompanied by the topshur, is an important part of Altay music....
Epics from the golden Altai Mountains... One of the most important forms of Altai art ... is the narration of epics in the falsetto voice to the accompaniment of the topshur ...
The Gyume and Gyoto MonksOne night in 1433, the Tibetan lama Je Tzong Sherab Senge awoke from a startling dream. In it he had heard a voice unlike any voice that had ever sounded on the planet. ...
mongoliaexpat.comSeriously cool stuff for a seriously wild country. An online magazine.
Altai Republic, Official PortalThe Oirot-Altaians - indigenous population inhabiting mountains and foothills of the geographical Altai....
Nature Photographs by Konstantin MikhailovPhotographs of Tuva.
Hans Rossel Travel PhotographyPhotographs of Tuva. Stock photography.
Photography by Oleg KosterinPhotographs of Tuva.
Photography by K. David HarrisonSwarthmore College Linguistics, Field Work 2003
Arctic Photo (Search for "tuva".)Photographs of Tuva. Stock photography.
Explorer-PhotoPhotographs of Tuva. Stock photography.
Flickr TyvaPhotographs of Tuva on Flickr
Siberia TrekkingPhotographs of Tuva
Béla Fleck and the FlecktonesBela FleckAlash are guest artists on the Flecktones' Grammy-winning CD "Jingle All the Way." During December 2008 and 2009, Alash toured with the Flecktones to promote the CD.
Elliott LevinAvant-garde jazz musician from Philadelphia and leader of the Extra Special Terrestrial Guests, a group that collaborates with Alash. Listen to jam sessions 1
[10:40] and 2 [10:28] , recorded at the Rotunda in Philadelphia in 2007. Friends of TuvaFriends of Tuva (FoT) was conceived by accident in 1981 to commemorate Tuva's 60th anniversary as a distinctive splotch on the world globe. ...
Juniper Green, LLCJuniper Green LLC is a U.S. based Limited Liability Corporation (formed in Wisconsin) focused on promoting Tuvan music and culture. Sean Quirk is the managing member.
Kongar-ol OndarOfficial website of Kongar-ol Ondar, master throat singer and artistic director of Alash.
Naftali SchindlerNaftali Schindler is a composer and fan of Tuvan music who invited Alash to perform at Yale.
OvaaOvaa handmakes traditional and non-traditional Tuvan instruments.
Sai-Xonash (Сай-Хонаш)Zhenya and Anai-Xaak Saryglar are an independent couple living in Kyzyl who offer a number of affordable services for tourists, researchers, and students of Tuvan culture.
Sergei SotpaSergei Sotpa was an original member of Alash.
ShonchelaiShonchelai, a Tyvan woman who lives in Canada, has created an English language blog about Tyva. She has also started an English language Google group about Tyva. Only members can view the group's content. Consider joining if you want to exchange information and opinions about Tyva.
Sun Ra ArkestraThe first American Jazz band to travel to Tuva. Several Sun Ra musicians join forces with the Extra Special Terrestrial Guests to collaborate with Alash. Listen to jam sessions 1
[10:40] and 2 [10:28] , recorded at the Rotunda in Philadelphia in 2007.
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