New Video

[throatsinger]

I hear there's a new video on the khoomei.com front page...

[Alzin]

Awesome, but the noise is indeed horrible... I'd so love to hear just him...

[Synapse309]

Background noise is good, if it's not too bad... I digress, but I need to explain... (oh man! not again... type this junk into your stupid rant list...)

I obviously have a vivid imagination, so I often imagine scenarios of what certain situations would be like...

When I think of throat singers in their natural habitat I usually picture a dude in a deel with curled boots and a funky hat sporting a braid and playing an igil that is standing on a slight slope of a hill in the windy grasslands, surrounded by goats and yak. While that's a different kind of noise or ambience or whatever you call it, this is comparable to a throat singer standing on a stage, surrounded by murmuring spectators singing into a crackly MIC powered by a noisy generator or a throat singer wearing jeans and steel toes and a plaid shirt with a hard hat singing Sygyt while standing on a construction site next to a busy city street.

I sing next to the main street in my town, behind a row of restaurants, not far from a busy railway track and crossing. My ambient background noise is also awful...

I extrapolate the hypothesis that the ambient noise may influence the performer subliminally, even if they are not singing along to the sounds they hear, because everyone's everyday soundscape is different, but natural to each and even idiosyncratic, so that similar or identical sounds take on different meanings depending on the individual perceiving them.

To bring what I mean into perspective, here is a link to an interesting musical piece: http://www.ubu.com/film/cage_433.html

The link is taken indirectly from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence#In_music

I feel incredibly inspired today. The song I woke up with in my head this morning was Vivaldi's "Primavera" from the Four Seasons. Been whistling it all day... simply delightful...

[Alzin]

Ah, John Cage... always reminds me of Einstürzende Neubauten's Silence is sexy.

Mh, the backgroundnoise is probably influencing the mood of the singer, and thus his singing... But I just can't sing on the street with horrible noise, I need to hear myself. But maybe that shows how much of a beginner I am. Of course every singer wants to hear himself, but singing might get easier with practise, because you know your own vocal contract better...

But in this video, the noise just bothers me. -.-