World's deepest voice

ToneControl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaPtiFO-NLc

Bit of a clanger with the interview though: he can sing at 40Hz, which he says is 8 octaves below the lowest G on a piano.

He means 8Hz lower AFAIK

richardhomer

Me today. Got epic dose of man flu and would make Barry White sound like Minnie Ripperton.....

viz

There's a famous story about a performance of Rachmaninov's Vespers - one of the pieces ends with the basses going down the scale to an almost impossibly low note, a bottom C I think, and when they'd finished it a man in the audience stood up and continued the scale an octave lower. Here's the piece, not the performance with the audience unfortunately. Listen to the whole thing, it's almost unbearably beautiful and the climb to the climax from 1:40 to 1:50 is sublime. Every one of Rachmaninov's pieces, large or small, has what he called the pinnacle, and this one's a goody, and the climb down, ending in that octave scale, is lovely. 

viz

Well he does say he can sing a whole piano's worth below an ordinary piano, so that is another 8 octaves; The lowest note on a piano is 27.5 Hz, so if you halve that 8 times you get 0.1 Hz. That sounds pretty impossible to me. Well it doesn't because the lowest a human can hear is 10-20 Hz. Zero point one Hertz???? It can't be. That's a wave every 10 seconds! It's like - ok I'm going to sing the lowest note ever, I've just started, you can't actually hear it but come back in 10 seconds for the next pulse.

randomhandclaps

It's a well known fact that low resonance in the scalp cause hair loss though.

Whilst he may have the lowest voice I do think his claim about quite how low he can go is rubbish.  It's interesting that they went to the trouble of interviewing him but no one thought to ask for a demonstration of that range.

viz

He did, you just couldn't hear it.

guitarfishbay

randomhandclaps said:

It's a well known fact that low resonance in the scalp cause hair loss though.

Whilst he may have the lowest voice I do think his claim about quite how low he can go is rubbish.  It's interesting that they went to the trouble of interviewing him but no one thought to ask for a demonstration of that range.

He probably was trying, but the presenter was clearly hoping to get noticed by radio stations by displaying her 'talk over the important bits' skill.

randomhandclaps

guitarfishbay said:

randomhandclaps said:

It's a well known fact that low resonance in the scalp cause hair loss though.

Whilst he may have the lowest voice I do think his claim about quite how low he can go is rubbish.  It's interesting that they went to the trouble of interviewing him but no one thought to ask for a demonstration of that range.

He probably was trying, but the presenter was clearly hoping to get noticed by radio stations by displaying her 'talk over the important bits' skill.

Having re-watched it I think you are spot on. 

randomhandclaps

His Youtube channel is massively popular -

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01725/pigeon_system-_1__1725614a.gif

viz

In this video he also claims the 10 octaves, but he actually sings a middle A, 440 Hz, which is 4 octaves above the bottom A on a piano, so that means he can only do 6 octaves on his "lower piano", which would be around 0.4 Hz, which is also rather low. I mean that's more than 3 octaves lower than an elephant. He says he can hear the notes in his head even though he can't actually hear them with his ears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9P1ymFCxf0

randomhandclaps

viz said:

He says he can hear the notes in his head even though he can't actually hear them.

I know a lot of singers like that.

guitarfishbay

Well if the voiceover stuff doesn't work out he can always use the Tay Zonday youtube covers business model.