New Sounds Live; David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir
- Series
- New Sounds Live
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-354f5cqb
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- Description
- Description
- David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir Wednesday, November 17 1999 World Financial Center Winter Garden Voices: Hykes, Bluestein, Gallet, Hersey, Hill, Markel, Sales Instruments: Gallet (ney flute, bowed and plucked tanburs); Hersey (guitar); Hykes (zi'nbura); Mann and Muller (percussion). Program Order - Spectral Path (Hykes solo) - Wave Tidings (Hykes, Hill) - Rainbow Dance (Hill, Hykes, Mann, Muller) - Deserted Temple (Gallet, Baird, Hersey, Hill, Hykes, Mann, Muller, Sales) - The Rainbow Fields - World Premier (Bluestein, Gallet, Hill, Hykes, Mann, Markel, Muller, Sales) Program Notes: Composer and singer David Hykes has pioneered the Western vocal overtone movement since the 1970's. The Harmonic Choir, which Hykes founded in New York in 1975, practices Harmonic Chant, a new sacred vocal music that fuses chant, singing, and meditation and references the traditional vocal music of Tibet, Mongolia and Tuva. The Harmonic Chant is the first distinct Western form of vocal overtone music which offers a complete spectrum of techniques and musical principles. The harmonic series is described as theDNA to music, the essential and universal harmonic law found in all forms of instrumental and vocal music. With Harmonic Chant, much like Tuvan throat-singing, each singer produces a regular fundamental note while simultaneously singing other distinct notes from the harmonic series. The method explores the inner structure of every vocal and instrumental sound. Hykes born in New Mexico in 1953, received his MFA from Columbia University and began his career as an experimental film maker and performance artist. He began researching sacred chant, and became increasingly interested in overtone chanting and harmonic singing of Mongolia and Tibet. He was the first western composer to collaborate with the Gyuto monks of Tibet as well as Tuvan and Mongolian overtone singers. Hykes and the Harmonic Choir served as artists-in-residence at New Yorks Cathedral of St. John the Divine from 1980-1987. At the request of the French Ministry of Culture, Hykes moved to France in 1987. He and the group now divide their time between performing and teaching both in the United States and internationally. Hykes has released nine CDs, most recently The Rainbow Dances (for your rainbow heart). He is the recipient of numerous grants from such organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation and the NEA, and has composed original scores for the films Dead Poets Society, Baraka and Ghost.
- Media type
- Sound
- Credits
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Host: Schaefer, John
Musician: Hykes, David
Musician: Muller, Robert
Musician: Bluestein, Joel
Musician: Gallet, Stphane
Musician: Hersey, Baird
Musician: Hill, Timothy
Musician: Markel, Seth
Musician: Sales, Bndicte
Musician: Mann, Robert
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68026.1 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: DAT
Generation: Original
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68026.2 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Dub
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- Citations
- Chicago: “New Sounds Live; David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 25, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-354f5cqb.
- MLA: “New Sounds Live; David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir.” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 25, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-354f5cqb>.
- APA: New Sounds Live; David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-354f5cqb