July 24, 2005

Interesting noises from your head Various free teach-yourself links to making odd noises. Teach yourself Tuvan throat-singing! Learn to yodel. Put your lips together and blow! Try a little scat. Dabble in ventriloquism. Try your hand at the finger flute. Apologies to librarians everywhere.
posted by fish tick 18 years ago
  • I really want to do all these, except of course the scat one.
  • Oh wait, that kind of scat. Yeah, I want to do that, too.
  • Inuit throat-singers with samples.
  • The vocal kind of scat used to be spelt skat, if memory serves. Scat when I was young was a verb and meant Shoo! Scram! An old word for the droppings of the beast pursued was fewmet. But it's only been in the past three decades or so I've encountered scat as having this meaning. It's not so defined in the 1914 Funk and Wagnalls. When scat started to mean fewmet I'm not sure -- where is language hat?
  • I once hung out with an Inuit throat singer who sang background for Bjork. She had really cool earrings. /pointless comment.
  • where can you learn to play the Skin Flute? /pointlessy crude comment
  • where can you learn to play the Skin Flute? /pointlessly crude comment
  • Oops! Sorry for the double comment- must have pressed post instead of preview... must stop now... must sleep...
  • Why would anybody need lessons on singing scat? If you can carry a tune and sing meaningless syllables you can scat already.
  • Not to fish, of course.
  • MonkeyFilter: It's not so defined in the 1914 Funk and Wagnalls.