Son’s First Song!
by rebecca ~ February 8th, 2006. Filed under: Ordinary Miracles, Space is the Place.
T. composed a 6-minute song all by himself two days ago. It is his first independently composed song, though he has sung backup on other songs of my husband’s.
A friend emailed me some info on throat-singers from Tuva (an independent area in the Tunna Mountains of southern Siberia and northwestern Mongolia) today, and reading about it triggered my memory of my son’s song.
Hmmm….maybe he, too, is singing at some harmonic tonal levels we cannot hear?
Check out some Tuvan throat singing here: http://www.ubu.com/ethno/soundings/tuva.html . In particular, I found this one clip amazing; and, yes, this is the human voice, and not John Coltrane’s trumpet in “Naima” as I first thought!
T’s song:
Pranatronic had been working on some vocals when T. leaned over to the microphone (I mean, we’re talking, he really was mouthing that microphone–it got all soggy!) and started to sing this tune. To me, it is a very peaceful and meditative song, although if you wait until you get past the 5 minute mark, then he gets into creating some final and rather bizarre high pitch sounds, like a baby trumpter swan. And a very wild baby trumpter swan at that.
Link is here.
Here, also, is a very short video clip of that latter part of the song production process. Both of these are big files, so they may take a while downloading.
Please enjoy!