Robbie Beahrs (Robert Oliver Beahrs) is an Oakland-based composer, vocalist, and musical ethnographer. Currently a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at U.C. Berkeley, he is interested in Turkic nomadic music/sound-making in Siberia and Inner Asia, with a particular focus on timbre, politics, and the voice. Robbie actively composes, performs (voice, igil horsehead fiddle, jaw harp, theremin), lectures, and gives workshops in Tuvan throat-singing as well as various extended vocal techniques.

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