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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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No, it's G *negative* 7. Not a G7 chord. As in a G 11 octaves below middle C.
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That's scientific pitch notation. C4 is Middle C is (the 4th C on an 88-key piano). G-7 is 8 octaves below the lowest G (G1) on a standard piano.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
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
We're gonna shit our pants once we hear him reaching the brown note.
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You are not an exception.
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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But you are also correct that the G7 (should be G superscript 7) chord, which is the G minor 7 chord has thee notes G, Bb, D, F
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.
Yeh given that every reduction of 1 octave requires double the power to have the same volume, it couldnt be that loud.
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.
Mostly random stuff.
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
G7 is not Gmin7, G7 is the dominant seventh, which is the major chord with the 7th added. G B D F
Either way, he's a total failfuck.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Beyond being schooled by AC here, let me add this.
G superscript 7 is the standard jazz (fake book) notation for a major chord with a minor seventh added. G7 without the superscript is also acceptable, but you will generally see this in music where the presentation is less important than the information conveyed. Discussion forums, as an example, or lead sheets. The superscript is mandatory only in formal music theory, and assists quick reading while improvising so it is effectively mandatory, though variable, there.
"G minor 7 chord has thee notes G, Bb, D, F" would be written as "Gm7", traditionally without the superscript, or "G-7" (again without the superscript) in a jazz setting. It is a minor chord with the minor seventh added.
Traditional music theory (Helmholtz) would write C4 as c' with C3 as regular c (with nothing following it). Lower octaves are indicated with capital letters, the next lower being C (again with nothing following). Then commas indicate lower octaves starting with C, as the next example.
It is only a logical extension for the subsubcontra range to use a negative number, since C0 was really quite low and anything below it was pretty much unheard of. Helmholtz allowed for an infinite range, but as you can see the scientific notation system really did not count on notes below C0. C-1 is the lowest I have seen, which is why it is very unnatural to refer to a note as G-7.
So you are correct that G-7 is much more likely to be understood, outside any context, as a chord. But for the wrong reasons. And of course if we are talking about a note, then how would you confuse it for a chord? Unless you wanted to demonstrate a tiny bit of trivia you picked up accidentally?
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.
I have no excuse for putting the Bb in there other than I copied from the GP without reading properly.
My apologies for being slightly misleading.
This is infrasonic so referring to it by note name is a bit silly anyway other than referencing it as having a frequency of G * 1/2^n
I think at this frequency, Hz or just as the summary says 8 octaves below the lowest G on a piano is more meaningful.
btw. it is not trivia I picked up accidentally, I did study music theory, I just haven't made any use of it for 15 years or so, understandably it's getting a bit rusty.
You should probably see the videos of this guy before making silly comments. Breathing ain't the only thing going on there. There's a good youtube of one of his low notes and its effect on a glass of water.
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Why the fuck did some idiot mod my post "Offtopic"? Is he such a child that he's never heard the Grinch song and doesn't know who Thurl Ravenscroft is AND couldn't be bothered to Google the name and discover that his deep booming voice was quite famous?
This is one of those times when I really wish there was some accountability in the Slashdot moderation system. People should be held responsible for irresponsible use of the moderation system.
Wave your hand back and forth eleven times per minute. Hear it? I didn't think so.
How many elephants do you think read slashdot?
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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Unless I'm counting incorrectly, rather than G-7, I believe the Helmholtz notation here would actually be G,,,,,,,
To indicate these lower notes, Helmholz notation uses subscript markings, not negative numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_pitch_notation
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?
No, I'm pretty sure C4 on a piano is more like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_X_1wZTEM
you mean, one cycle every 5 seconds? I can do that too. It's called breathing.
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