My flute teacher, a veteran jazz player and educator, sent me this video today. I was floored. I know a thing or two about Tuvan singing, having followed it for over twenty years with music from ...

During his life, Kongar-ol Ondar brought global exposure to the obscure art of Tuvan throat singing through his appearance in an Oscar-nominated documentary and a slew of performances that charmed the ...

About ten years ago Sean Quirk, being a student at the College of Music in Chicago, heard for the first time in his hometown of Milwaukee the audio recording of the group "Hung-Hurtuu" - the world ...

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.

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 ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife / Series 6: Music from the Peoples of the Soviet Union / 6.4: Video Permission to publish materials from the collection must ...