This post is for the music nerds out there... do it up.
Alright... I've had this fascination with acoustic timbre as of late... especially the harmonic spectrum, and after a bit of a struggle was able to resonate a fifth above the note I was singing... and I'm here to tell you that you can too! (cheesy game show host? yea...)
So, for those of you who don't know, timbre (the quality of sound ex. difference between a clarinet and a piano) is caused by different levels of the other frequencies (pitches) in the sound's harmonic series. For example, an "ooh" vowel has louder lower harmonics, while an "e"" vowel has louder upper harmonics. Thus, as vowels resonate different parts of the harmonic spectrum of a pitch, one can create different vowels that make specific harmonics resonate, ultimately sounding two simultaneous pitches. So...dig it.
You can do this on any pitch you please, i've found the a below middle c works nice. Before opening your lips, form an "r" with your tongue. Begin to sing, and slowly open your mouth to an "ooh" then an "e" vowel, while keeping the tongue in the "r" shape. Somewhere along the way, you'll hear a fifth above the pitch sounding. Making small adjustments with the mouth, one can get this secondary pitch to be quite loud.
So, I hope y'all enjoyed learning that entirely useless and ridiculous skill...
Back to your regularly scheduled programming?
So, for those of you who don't know, timbre (the quality of sound ex. difference between a clarinet and a piano) is caused by different levels of the other frequencies (pitches) in the sound's harmonic series. For example, an "ooh" vowel has louder lower harmonics, while an "e"" vowel has louder upper harmonics. Thus, as vowels resonate different parts of the harmonic spectrum of a pitch, one can create different vowels that make specific harmonics resonate, ultimately sounding two simultaneous pitches. So...dig it.
You can do this on any pitch you please, i've found the a below middle c works nice. Before opening your lips, form an "r" with your tongue. Begin to sing, and slowly open your mouth to an "ooh" then an "e" vowel, while keeping the tongue in the "r" shape. Somewhere along the way, you'll hear a fifth above the pitch sounding. Making small adjustments with the mouth, one can get this secondary pitch to be quite loud.
So, I hope y'all enjoyed learning that entirely useless and ridiculous skill...
Back to your regularly scheduled programming?