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Re:A bell that rings two notes at once [video] by FpUser on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:55PM (#36738763)
This sounds more like applying resonant filter to one of the harmonics. Voice is not a pure sine hence contains "many notes".

Some of what singer from Laybach does sound 2 voice as well. In some cultures this style is a natural.

Re:A bell that rings two notes at once [video] by srcreigh on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:29PM (#36739125)
It’s not just sound, it’s literally entitled overtone singing.

FYI for anybody. Your A440 is not the only frequency. There’s every integer multiple (880, 1320, etc) as well. Different coefficients of those overtones are why you can sing “ahhh” and “eeee” at the same note but they sound different.

Polyphonic overtone singing is a technique where one or more overtones are heavily emphasized in the timbre.

This is also why major 3rds on pianos are noisy. A has a C# as it’s 5th harmonic at 2200Hz (5*440). But C#7 on piano is slightly higher at 2217.48.

That’s why if you listen close there will be a ~17Hz oscillation around C#7 when you play A4 and C#5.

Re:A bell that rings two notes at once [video] by jacquesm on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:11PM (#36738912)
It doesn't sound like that to me at all but tbh I haven't done any spectral analysis of what she's doing. But the steps she shows are very hard to do with just filtering without losing a lot of output volume and that doesn't seem to happen. It sounds like the overtones are added rather than filtered out. I'm also unaware of how you'd do the filtering from a physics perspective, unless she's able to somehow restrict certain modes from forming through muscle action.
Re:A bell that rings two notes at once [video] by bluepod4 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:36PM (#36739198)
Instead of hypothesizing, you could just look the information up lol.

Other than that, I also think you may want to hear a different polyphonic singer.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/CEU52mO69ZA

Re:A bell that rings two notes at once [video] by praptak on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:23PM (#36739056)
She has a video with a spectral analyser, YT search something like "overtone singing spectral analysis".
Re:A bell that rings two notes at once [video] by matheist on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:53PM (#36740345)
> I'm also unaware of how you'd do the filtering from a physics perspective

It's the same thing we do when we shape our mouths to make different vowel sounds, only much more precise. The physical thing that underlies what we perceive as "vowel quality" is the frequency of spectral peaks ("formant" is the linguistics terminology). When we shape our mouths (more generally our vocal tracts) to say "aaa" versus "iii" we are creating resonances at certain frequencies.

Admittedly when creating vowel sounds the bandwidth of the resonator is pretty wide, and when we hear vowels we can still perceive "a" quality vs "i" quality with even a wide bandwidth.

What Anna-Maria Hefele and other overtone singers do is much more precise. They can get a very narrow bandwidth by controlling their vocal tracts more precisely.