Tim Hodgkinson is an English anthropologist and member of the music ensemble K-Space. After making a series of trips to Tuva to perform and study shamanism, Hodgkinson has published a personal perspective of his musical encounters with shamanic culture. Hodgkinson explains, "At the heart of Tuvan artistic imagination is an image of nature as a totality, as a cosmos. It is towards this cosmos that an artist strives to open. Artistic skill is knowing how to work this opening towards the cosmos into sound by revealing the inner nature of sound. Thus the emergence of xoomei throat singing from a background of shamanic belief seems quite logical when understood as deriving from a cultural tendency to want to unveil the hidden inner character of a phenomenon, rather than to manipulate its exterior. By filtering and amplifying the upper harmonics of a fundamental vibration we are unveiling its hidden life. Tuvan melody is the unfolding of the inner nature of a single sound because it is made completely of these upper harmonics." Read More
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