| From: Tako Oda To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: Questions... (extreme notes) Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
"Julian Lovegrove" wrote: > I'd love to hear proof. I've never heard of anyone singing over 3 > octaves. And I mean singing, not vocalising. > >> To anyone who thinks that 7 octaves is impossible they are wrong...I >> can hit (I know for sure) 5 octaves. I'm not bragging or anything >> but i think that it is possible. >> >>Sabrina
Dear Julian,
Below is an example of an unamplified E1 recorded live for a performance of Dylan Bolles' "This is Truth". Maybe the excerpt below is not what you would call "singing" but I believe it served an expressive purpose within the context of the piece. So to me, that's singing. In this excerpt I am singing a pedal tone, but I can sing words down there too.
http:// www.mills.edu/PEOPLE/gr.pages/toda.public.html/music/sounds/truth_deep.wav or www.mills.edu/PEOPLE/gr.pages/toda.public.html/music/sounds/truth_deep.aif
It is low enough that you'll barely be able to hear me over the string bass playing E3 unless you've got decent sized speakers on your computer. Most computer speakers are too small to really do justice to frequencies lower than C2.
So anyway, that gives me quite a bit more than 4 octaves (my usual range is countertenor) that don't require amplification. I personally would never sing below a D3 (low alto D) in an "classical" context, because the timbre below that isn't in line with that aesthetic. But the world doesn't revolve around classical, and I find it quite liberating to sing different kinds of musics. It's all singing to me :)
Tako Oda Graduate Student in Composition Mills College Music Department http://www.mills.edu/PEOPLE/gr.pages/toda.public.html/music/singer.html
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