Comments on: Harmonic Chant http://www.overtonesinging.com/harmonic-chant/ Overtone Singing With Rollin Rachele Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Hykes http://www.overtonesinging.com/harmonic-chant/#comment-5 David Hykes Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:26:52 +0000 http://www.overtonesinging.com/?p=10#comment-5 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 www.harmonicpresence.org 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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