GEORGIA BROWN RELEASES THE NEW TOP OF LINE SENNHEISER MICROPHONE D9000 
Autor: WGM MUSIC | Publicado: 2014-08-30T21:07:00-07:00




25.000 Hz - Ultra Voice "There's No Limit"



Georgia Brown from Brazil has the highest pitched voice in the world. In a studio interview with Sennheiser, she reflects on her passion for audio engineering, technology that can process an extreme range of notes, and a relaxed approach to her impaired vision.


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The voice

Georgia Brown’s voice is extraordinary. For a decade, Guinness World Records registered the now 34-year-old singer as the person with the highest vocal range: the Italian-Brazilian singer covers a full eight octaves — only American baritone Tim Storms has a wider range. Georgia Brown, however, still owns the highest pitched voice.




The Heights

The soul and R&amp;B singer effortlessly reaches the so-called whistle register, the highest register of the human voice. The Guinness Book of Records observes that Brown’s overtones reach as far up the musical scale as G10— which according to the “scientific pitch notation” of the Acoustical Society of America hits 25,088 Hertz.




The woman

Born in Italy in 1980, Rossanna Monti is better known by her artistic name Georgia Brown. She discovered her musical talent and the wide range of her voice early on. Brown has lived with the Brazilian part of her family for a long time, and her new home lies in central Brazil’s Goiania, about 200 kilometers southwest of the capital, Brasilia.


With bright red hair and a powerful presence, Georgia Brown is not the type of person who goes unnoticed. But it is only when she sings that her extraordinary qualities really become apparent.


»With equipment such as the Sennheiser D9000, the sound is just perfect.« 


The Soul and R&amp;B artist was born in Italy but moved to Brazil when she was eight years old. Even as a child, she found that her voice had an extremely wide register of frequencies. The “whistle register”, used in operas such as Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”, comes effortlessly to her. In 2004, Brown broke Mariah Carey’s vocal record and for 10 years, the 34-year-old singer has been listed in The Guiness World Records as the person with the highest voice on earth and the female with the widest vocal range (G2-G10). According to the “scientific pitch notation” of the Acoustical Society of America, the highest note she reached (G10) represents a frequency of exactly 25,088 hertz. Since the Guinness experts measured this “using a piano, violin and Hammond organ” and did not use electronic frequency analysis, the claim might be open to debate. What is clear is that Brown has an amazing vocal range, easily reaching into the whistle register. We met Georgia in Rio de Janeiro, where she perfectly blends in with the rhythm of the city. After four successful albums and touring through Brazil, Europe, the US and Asia, she is now working on new projects. In the studio where we interviewed her, she was rehearsing for a concert, looking for the right equipment to transport her wondrous voice. While Georgia tested the Sennheiser D9000 wireless microphone system for the first time, we got the chance to talk with her about her extraordinary vocal ability, her career and new challenges. Recently, Georgia has gone public about a degenerative eye disease, which she has had since birth, leaving her almost blind: with just 10 percent vision in her right eye and zero in the other. 


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INTERVIEW



How did you discover this remarkable talent of singing at such a wide range and high pitch?


I was in a band when I was a child. Before we started to practice, I would be playing with my dolls and I would create high-pitched voices for them. One of my musicians said to me “Can you sing in that range you're talking in?” So I did. And just like that, we discovered my high range. While I was growing up and becoming a real woman, my low notes started to appear. I like this because it gives me many choices to put different colors of my voice into the music. 




You could have been an exceptional opera singer but decided to do Drum &amp; Bass, R &amp; B and dance music – what attracted you to those genres? 


There is no technique that I can’t sing. I can do the soprano voice or the contralto, I can do the tenor or baritone. But I’ve never done anything that I didn’t like. So I have played R &amp; B, soul, hip-hop and rap, metal, Drum &amp; Bass and now: rock 'n' roll. I'm starting a new project called Lauren, where we play progressive industrial metal, with the songs and arrangements written by myself. 




Please tell us about your Guinness World Records.


One day, my husband had a dream and when he woke up, he said: “Hey Georgia, what do you think about making a claim to the Guinness Book of Records?” So we emailed them. At the time, I didn't know exactly what vocal range I had. When we met the Guinness guys in São Paulo, I recorded eight octaves. For the last ten years, I have held the record for greatest female vocal range and the world's highest note. And I used to hold a third record for voice with the most potential. I think that's cool because it gave me many chances to travel the world to new countries, cultures and meet new people. 




With your unique voice and all the production tasks that you perform, what's the importance of working with quality equipment, both in the studio and in live concerts? 


When you have good equipment, good microphones, good compressors, you are able to work faster and more accurately. I have experienced very poor microphones as well as the top-end microphones for vocals. When you have the chance to work with the best equipment, the sound is perfect, clear and powerful – like the Sennheiser D9000. Its low frequencies are very deep; the high frequencies are very clear; the medium ones very, very good. The digital equalizer is very cool to work with. 




You spent many years in the US training to be a sound engineer. How does your impaired vision affect your work? 


The computer software has accessibility assistance. And then nothing is difficult. I just have to configure the computer for me to see in high contrast, with the background all in black and with the letters in white. When you really want something, you get it. When I sing, I don't need my eyes; I just need my soul. That's why for me, music is magic because you don't need to see it, you just need to feel it, listen and be happy. 



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Fount: Sennheiser Official Website

http://www.sennheiser-geschaeftsbericht.de/#/en/article/georgia-brown/

By: Daniela Gross