Comments on: Winter in Western Massachusetts

By: gm

gm — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:38:41 +0000

Very interesting. I can’t say that it sounds like fun though. Other than work you couldn’t get me out of the house.

By: pf.org

pf.org — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:47:33 +0000

My Blog Is Shrinking

Some stuff that was happening on the web while I was either sick, recovering, or trying to catch up on work from being sick: Keith Obermann takes Bill O’Reilly to the woodshed. What do you do in Western Massachusetts in the winter? Listen to an a…

By: Sean Williford

Sean Williford — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:14:07 +0000

Despite the lack of long, cold winters in the Bay Area, HHT have a huge following out here as well. Unfortunately, they are not playing the Great American Music Hall this time through. There’s nothing like listening to resonant cowboy music in an

Some might ascribe this enthusiasm for throat singing to a general NorCal affinity for ethnic novelty, along the lines of ‘if it’s weird, and it’s ethnic, it’s gotta be good’. Personally, I used to like to practice overtone singing while commuting on 101. I got some great resonance off of the windshield…

By: MeMo

MeMo — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:54:52 +0000

Inspiration is where you find it

1. At the risk of sounding sacrilegious (which is not my intent) I’d like to posit the theory that His Holiness has been watching Friends reruns: “Even if eros is at first mainly covetous and ascending, a fascination for the…

By: Danny Yee

Danny Yee — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:44:38 +0000

Hey, someone on my blogroll has visited Mongolia! I was there last summer – http://danny.oz.au/travel/mongolia/

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:13:22 +0000

Many things to love bout Western MA… and the chance to hear such music, an the 400 people who came to hear it, are right up there! Are horsehead fiddles made of bone? I wonder how the resonance changes.

By: EthnicLoft » What’s Khöömei?

EthnicLoft » What’s Khöömei? — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:06:14 +0000

[...] Find out more about this “gorgeous style of singing where the singer creates a drone tone and shapes his or her mouth to emphasize overtones, sounding a second or third note” from Ethan blogging at “My heart’s in Accra” [...]

By: andy carvin

andy carvin — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:59:22 +0000

I wanted to see them a few days ago in Somerville, but learned about the concert too late. What a bummer. I saw HHT the first time almost 15 years ago in Chicago; an ethnomusicologist stuck around after the show to teach people the basics. Even today, whenever I want to irritate my wife, I break out into a loud, hoarse drone and try to hit a few harmonics (usually I fail, though). Putting your tongue in the position to make an exaggerated “L” sound often helps. Fun with oral acoustics!