Harmonic Chant
Harmonic Chant is another popular name for Overtone Singing. By using the word ‘Chant’ it appeals to a slightly different audience associating it to Gregorian Chant and giving it a more spiritual context. However, this is mostly just marketing. Personally I see Overtone Singing as the generic overarching term for all such vocalisations that seperate the Fundamental from the Overtones audibly. Harmonic Chant is a subset preferred by certain artists such as David Hykes.
There is a technical difference as well which is that all harmonics are Overtones but not all overtones are harmonics. Harmonics are by definition perfect whole number ratios of the fundamental frequency. Overtones can be distorted by physical anomalies such as tightness and thickness of a string.
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Greetings, Mr. Rachele,
We send our best wishes to you from the Harmonic Presence Foundation. I by no means wish to enter into any polemics or territorial remarks with you, so please receive the following observations with that reassurance in mind. When I began my work with harmonics in 1975, I created several descriptive terms for the ‘global’ vision we have sought to develop and serve, from the unique viewpoint of that time. Those terms included “harmonic singing,” “overtone singing” “overtone chanting”, and the term “Harmonic Chant,” this latter term being the specific one we use now for our body of music and the associated awareness, healing and contemplative practices. I’m afraid I have to disagree that, as the creator or those terms, which I meant to refer to our music and its global concerns, were made for marketing reasons. I also do not wish to enter into useless debates about which term is the most territorially “over-arching” or “generic” term. Suffice it to say that we use now the term “Harmonic Chant” not as a generic term, but as a simple title for the 33 years of work in this area that we have done, on behalf of the development of a universal music, appropriate for a planet like ours in times like these, in hopes that it might help the process of “reattunement” that we all so obviously need.
With best wishes,
David Hykes
Harmonic Presence Foundation
http://www.harmonicpresence.org
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