Category: MICHAEL ORMISTON
Soundtransformations, Michael Ormiston & Candida Valentino Web Pages / Mongolian Khöömii Singing Papers, Singers and Recordings, UK
Soundtransformations, Michael Ormiston & Candida Valentino Web Pages
Mongolian Khöömii Singing Papers, Singers and Recordings
There have been many explanations of khöömii that I have come across over the years. I will attempt to point to the main contributors and sources. My own studies brought me to Mongolia in 1993/4/7 and 2000/5/6 and I have interviewed attended and set up workshops with Gereltsogt (London 1993) and Tserendavaa (Europe 2002) that gave me further insight. This page is still under construction and will be updated as I find time to put more information on. If you would like to send me any information regarding Mongolian khöömii and if any Mongolian khöömii singers would like their own page on this site then please email me at ormi_khoomii@yahoo.com
MICHAEL ORMISTON : Mongolian Khöömii Singing Papers, Singers and Recordings
Soundtransformations, Michael Ormiston & Candida Valentino Web Pages
Mongolian Khöömii Singing Papers, Singers and Recordings
There have been many explanations of khöömii that I have come across over the years. I will attempt to point to the main contributors and sources. My own studies brought me to Mongolia in 1993/4/7 and 2000/5/6 and I have interviewed attended and set up workshops with Gereltsogt (London 1993) and Tserendavaa (Europe 2002) that gave me further insight. This page is still under construction and will be updated as I find time to put more information on. If you would like to send me any information regarding Mongolian khöömii and if any Mongolian khöömii singers would like their own page on this site then please email me at ormi_khoomii@yahoo.com
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Workshop/Therapy
Individual Lessons Info
CD/DVDs
Film Clips
Collaborations & Previous Projects
Biography
Concert info
TV Film Radio
Other CDs
Mongolian Music
Mongolian Khöömii Singers & Info
Home Page
Carol Pegg’s articles on Khöömii
Khöömii nomination extract for UNSECO Intangible Cultural Heritage 2010
Scientific American Article September 1999
The Chöömij of Mongolia A Spectral Analysis of Overtone Singing by Ronald Walcott 1974
Original Research and Acoustical Analysis in connection with the Xöömij Style of Biphonic Singing
Tran Quang Hai and Denis Guillou, Paris 1980
A Two Voiced Song With No Words by Lauri Harvilahti circa 1981
Tuvin Folk Music by A. N. Aksenov, Tuvinskaia Narodnaia Muzyka (Moscow, 1964)
Analysis of Acoustical Features of Biphonic Singing Voices Male and Female Xöömij and Male Steppe Kargiraa
By Takeda, Shoichi and Muraoka, Teruo
Why Do We Perceive Two Tones Simultaneously In Xoomij Mongolian Traditional Singing? By MasashiYamada
Synthesis of the laryngeal source of throat singing using a 2×2-mass model
Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Hiroshi Imagawa, Seiji Niimi, Naotoshi Osaka
Physical Modelling of the vocal tract of a Sygyt singer by Chen-Gia Tsai
Perception of Overtone Singing by Chen-Gia Tsai
Kargyraa and meditation by Chen-Gia Tsai
Growl Voice in Ethnic and Pop Styles
Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Leonardo Fuks, Hiroshi Imagawa, Niro Tayama 2004
False vocal fold surface waves during Sygyt singing: A hypothesis
Chen-Gia Tsai, Yio-Wha Shau, and Tzu-Yu Hsiao
False Vocal Fold Surface Waves During Sygyt Singing: a theoretical study by Chen-Gia Tsai
The Effect of the Hypopharyngeal and Supra-Glottic Shapes on The Singing Voice
Hiroshi Imagawa, Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Niro Tayama, Seiji Niimi, 2003
The Laryngeal Flow model for Pressed-Type Singing Voices
Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Hiroshi Imagawa, Seiji Niimi, Naotoshi Osaka 2006
Observation of Laryngeal Movements for Throat Singing. Vibrations of two pairs of folds in the human larynx
Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Tomoko Konishi, Emi Zuiki Murano, Hiroshi Imagawa, Masanobu Kumada, Kazumasa Kondo, and Seiji Niimi
December 2002
Altai Khangai Ensemble info on Khöömii from the net
Zulsar on Khöömii from the Net
Page one of some Mongolian CD’s Featuring khöömii with track listings and liner notes
Page two of some Mongolian CD’s Featuring khöömii with track listings and liner notes
Page three of Some Mongolian CD’s found on the net
An Incomplete List of recorded Mongolian khöömii singers, click on letters
A to F G to R S to Z
Magic of Tone and the Art of Music by the late Dane Rhudyar
This is a very interesting extract about the Harmonic series from the now out of print book
Some Khöömii, Khoomei, Overtone Singing Links and Related Sites now mainly out of date will update soon
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Soundtransformations, Michael Ormiston & Candida Valentino Web Pages
Soundtransformations, Michael Ormiston & Candida Valentino Web Pages
Michael Ormiston Biography
For more information about Mongolian overtone singing workshops, individual lessons, performances,
Tibetan Singing bowl/Gong workshops, soundtransformations workshops, concert booking, education days and more.
please contact Michael at mailto:ormi_khoomii@yahoo.com
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Michael Ormiston is the UK’s most experienced Mongolian Khöömii (Overtone) Singer, a
multi-instrumentalist, composer, inspirational teacher, workshop leader and therapeutic sound practitioner.
Workshop/Therapy
Individual Lessons Info
He travelled to west Mongolia in 1993 to study Khöömii with herdsman and expert singer Tserendavaa. During his six times in Mongolia he also studied with leading singers, Tsengedorj, Ganbold, Gereltsolt and Tsogtbaatar and has the rare privilege of being blessed to teach Khöömii by Tserendavaa and Gereltsogt which he has been doing internationally for the past 20 years.
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He has taught Khöömii on the SOAS World music summer school for the past 14 years as well as individually teaching ethnomusicology students at SOAS, Goldsmith College, University of London & ADEM Ateliers d’ethnomusicologie Geneva. In 2011, Michael in conjunction with SOAS and The Embassy of Mongolia organised, lectured and performed at the Inaugural European Mongolian Khöömii Festival in London.
Collaborations & Previous Projects
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He wrote, researched & presented “Echoes from Blue Heaven” a two part BBC Radio programme about traditional Mongolian Music and “The Whispering of the Stars”, the first major series (6 part) of radio programmes about Siberian Music for BBC Radio3. In 1994 he organised in conjunction with the Mongolian Government a 1500km musical tour of Mongolia with his group Nada and was invited to Mongolia in 2006 to perform with Mongolian Musicians at the 800 anniversary celebrations of Chinggis Khan’s declaration of the Mongol Empire.
Biography
Concert info
TV Film Radio
Other CDs
In 2015 he was awarded the Artists International Development Fund by the Art Council England & The British Council to travel to Kyrgyzstan to perform & Collaborate with musicians & artists.
He was honoured to perform in the presence of H.H. The Dalai Lama, Khamba Lam Choijamts (The Head Abbot of Ganden Monastery, Ulaanbataar), HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, and Ban Ki-moon amongst others.
In 2011 Michael was awarded The International Outreach Award by the Mongolian Embassy UK,
The Mongolian Association in the UK and Lingua Global for his
special contribution to the promotion of Mongolia’s rich Cultural Heritage.
Mongolian Music
Michael’s Overtones, instruments & Compositions have been heard on ‘The Golden Compass’ Hollywood film, Planet Earth, BBC’s acclaimed TV series, ITV’s Beowulf, The Old Vic’s production of The Crucible, Channnel 4, BBC Radio, Theatre De Complicite, Balled Frankfurt and many other performance pieces.
Mongolian Khöömii Singers & Info
He has released many CDs with Candida Valentino who also studied with Tserendavaa in Mongolia.
Michael has a rare collection of Mongolian instruments including the Morin Khuur, Tobshuur, Tömör Khuur, Khulsan Khuur, Limbe, Yatag, Tsuur. Among the other instruments he plays are, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Symphonic Gongs, Saz (Turkish long necked lute), Flat backed Bouzouki, Ney (Turkish end blown flute), Jew’s harps, Kyl Kyiak, Live electronics……
He organised & performed his musical group, Nada a tour of Mongolia in 1994.
This was the first British group to tour the provinces of Mongolia.
Michael has performed with his rare collection of instruments around the world including, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Algeria, Sri Lanka, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, at the Montreux Jazz festival (Switzerland), The National Theatre (London), The Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), with members of Ballet Frankfurt (Germany), The Eden Project (Cornwall) and Glastonbury International Dance Festival with Spiral Arts Dance Theatre, Belfast (Northern Ireland) for H.H. The Dalai Lama, and in New York.
Home Page
http://www.soundtransformations.co.uk/Michaelbiog1.htm
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