Overtone Music Network is a multifunctional platform for people, who are interested in the magic of harmonic and overtone music. This is our first community guideline. If you are a member of this network you can improve your contacts to overtone musicians and as an overtone musician you can share your ideas and conceptions about overtone and harmonic music. Overtone Music Network is an open public social network for music which contains elements of instruments with a high content of overtones like a didgeridoo, gong, jew's harp, singing-bowl, tambura or other instruments and as well overtone, harmonic or throat singing.

The Logo ૐ

The logo of Overtone Music Network is ૐ - OM - an ancient syllable from india which means: »Space will be open« or »Space, open!«. You can find it at the beginning of many Hindu texts as a holy exclamation to be called out at the start and the end of a reading of the Vedas or originally to any prayer or mantra. OM is an expression for the philosophy that every human being is it's own cosmos. Cosmos means that the universe is regarded as a well-ordered, harmonious whole in your heart and mind, also expressed in your own overtone and harmonic singing and chanting. Therefore we invite you to join the Overtone Music Network.

What are Overtones?

In most cases where a sound is created by natural means (such as a musical instrument or the human voice), a number of higher tones is produced in addition to the fundamental pitch. These higher tones are called overtones, partial tones, or harmonics. The sequence of these tones is called the overtone series, harmonic sequence, or sequence of natural tones. The combination of the fundamental and the overtones is the frequency spectrum of a tone. Continue