in the last couple of days i’ve driven about 13 hours and listened to a lot of music. two of the voices i’ve always found most captivating are those of michael jackson (the dark, smokey lows as well as the hearbrokenness it can embody) and freddy mercury (didn’t know that “his unusual finesse might be attributed to a high vibrato frequency—a couple notches higher than your standard, classically trained singer” and that scientists have discovered “evidence of subharmonics in mercury’s voice, apparently due to vibrating ventricular folds, a technique that makes tuvan throat singers sound so otherworldly”). more here.