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Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes
An anonymous reader writes "The man who holds the Guinness record for the world's lowest voice can hit notes so low that only animals as big as elephants are able to hear them. American singer Tim Storms, who also has the world's widest vocal range, can reach notes as low as G-7 (0.189Hz), an incredible eight octaves below the lowest G on the piano."
"You can break glasses with your voice?"
"No, that's at the other end of the scale."
"But you can communication with elephants? Call them to rescue you and fight battles?"
"No, but they can hear me."
With all the innuendo around Barry White's voice, if this man can sing he'd be a real crowd pleaser!
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For reference, 0.189 Hz is roughly once cycle per five seconds. Take a finger and raise it for 2.5 seconds, then lower it for 2.5 seconds.
This doesn't count as anything more than discrete pulses. I understand that the muscles controlling his vocal folds are performing similar activities to singing, but this is not sound anymore.
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Storm's incredible voice also made him a hot commodity in the Hollywood voice over business, where industry executives eagerly track down people with low voices to add drama to film trailers.
Add drama, or sound stupid?
Good. Sign him up. We need somebody on Earth who can scare the shit out of Thanos in the deeper-is-more-badass category.
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Between him and Mariah Carey, they should both be able to summon every animal in the vicinity.
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can reach notes as low as G-7 (0.189Hz),
G-7 is a chord comprised of 4 notes, G, Bb, D, F It doesn't mention that he can sing 4 simultaneous notes, I assume they mean a G note.
Only elephants? Those of us with subsonic hearing beg to differ... and we'd like him to stop singing that low because to us it's painful. (Diesel engines, planes taking off, ELF's and now this ... mutant christian singer! Enough already!)
Where's Thurl Ravenscroft when ya need him? I'm felling really Grinchy.
The trouble I have seen. Nobody knows but elephants...
Tim was a guest on Alan Jones talk back radio station in Australia a few days ago. Here is a link to the interview where you can here some of his stuff. http://podcasts.mrn.com.au.s3.amazonaws.com/alanjones/20120824-storms.mp3
I want to put Tim in my trunk and let that shit bang
We're gonna shit our pants once we hear him reaching the brown note.
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Is there an MP3 of him singing?
Oh... uh... damn...
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"Oh yeah, my Dad can go an octave lower than that..."
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I actually thought the claimed frequency was a typo in the article. But in the interview, Mr. Storm says he can sing 8 octaves below the lowest note on a piano. If you work backwords and double 0.189Hz eight times (for each octave), you get 48Hz, making his lowest [claimed] note 8 octaves below the lowest G on a piano.
As for whether this qualifies as singing, I would argue that to be considered real singing he should be using the same vocal cords and musculature required to produce human-audible sounds. I.e. he should be able to produce a continuous sound that starts at a normal note and drops down to the claimed note, without any fundamental change in the way in which he's producing the sound. My $.02.
In fact, we all should be able to make infrasounds. The difference is that the rest of us just call it breathing at a regular pace.
Seriously though, a sound that low would require moving a huge volume of air to create a pressure wave of any significance.
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I am so jealous. I am one of those guys with a really high voice. I get mistaken for a woman one the phone all the time.
Bitch is going to get owned by the original elephant call:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHWbsvgQUE
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He has vocal chords, I only have vocal cords.
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Can someone explain to me how they are sure he sang a G-7? The Uncertainty Principle seems to imply he would need to hold it for quite a long time to be sure it was G-7 and not A-6 or F-7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
Robert Redford is lined up to play him in "The Elephant Whisperer"
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There is no way he or anyone can vocalize at 0.189 Hz. Even if his vocal cords could flap at the rate of only 11 times per minute, no significant amount of acoustical energy would be emitted at 0.189 Hz without resonance. The wavelength (in air at sea level and room temperature) would be over a mile. Even if we suppose that an effective resonator could be constructed at a fourth of that size, it wouldn't fit inside a human, an elephant, or even a whale. Without resonance, the flapping vocal cords might still generate acoustical energy, but only in the form of intermittent impulses of much higher frequencies.
Wave your hand back and forth eleven times per minute. Hear (or feel) it? I didn't think so. Sure, the guy has a deep voice, but this story is utter nonsense.
Just four days after graduating from high school he began his career in Christian music and has since appeared in a number of singing groups.
Ah, christians. If you want to the lowest of the lowest, leave it to them. Nobody can fall as low as adults with imaginary friends.
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And no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?
This looks absurd to me too. I know nothing of anatomy, but I think the vocal chords work like strings.
Can you imagine a string vibrating at 0.189Hz? That is 5.3 seconds per period! Until Guinness verifies it, and be open about how they verified it, I am skeptical.
what an ass! to interrupt that which we clicked to listen TO.
dammit
It'll come out the other end of him.
A human simply does not have the resonant cavity to produce such notes.
Anyone can make glottal clicks at 0.18 Hz (about 5 clicks per second).
A train of such clicks does have a fundamental frequency 0.18 Hz, but most of the energy will be in the higher harmonics.
A genuine 0.18 Hz note has a 0.18 Hz fundamental as the loudest component.
Sound with a frequency .187 Hz is moving air at a rate of 11.22 times per minute. For most humans, that is about the frequency of their breath. Unless you are on a respirator, you yourself are perfectly capable of doing this. Also, "throat singing" can be used to generate frequencies that can not be produced by just your vocal chords. That technique, however, is not nearly as common as breathing.
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Bob Parsons has subdued many elephants by having this guy sing Justin Bieber.
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If Homo sapiens were so equipped to *detect* such frequencies with auditory sensors (we are not), we would also be equipped to produce them. For that we would require a neck a mile long.
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ok, still not a great power but it's something...
But can he look nerdy and sing chocolate rain?
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That's approximately how I breathe. Inhale, 2.5 sec later exhale, 2.5 sec later repeat. So am I making longitudinal compression waves like this guy? What's the difference between him and me?
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Wouldnt it be cool if some people had eyes that could see into infrared or ultraviolet?
A clip from the recording that started this fuss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs91h4nE5FE
you mean, one cycle every 5 seconds? I can do that too. It's called breathing.
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