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ok i know the Diva dance in the fifth element was digitally done to provide the pitch changes... says so on the dvd commentary (i said digitally done, not altered.. hell if i wanted to waste the time and effort i could mix that up with a good sounding girl myself prob)

and i would have never thought it could be done by a human... but then i stumbled on mongolian throat singing, and they can vocalize 4 notes at one time... hmmmm sooo maybe it could be done???

and then i stumble on this... take a listen... i like the fact she plays the actual audio in the background and sings over it and her tones are not the same... so you can def hear the dif... she does miss a few notes but over all i was pretty impressed... take a listen and let me know what you all think

Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0

Edit: hunted down my 5th element soundtrack... listened to them side by side... def hear the dif... so... did she cheat or really manage it ;-p

for some mongolian throat singing refs just you tube Kongar-ol Ondar or Altan Urag for examples on how they do multiple notes at same time or rapid session. I'm on the fence on this guys so.... discuss!

Okay, for reference here is the 5th Element one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJB5Rqc1m0Y&NR=1

I think the first girl was actually singing that unaltered for the most part (a little reverb added obviously). From my days as an opera singer, I know singing stuff like that is entirely possible. It's REALLY difficult, which would explain why she nerfed a couple notes, but for the most part I thought she did great for such a difficult song. Rawk!

I believe that Laura did sing what you heard there. It took her longer to get from one note to the next, which makes sense as muscles have to move to adjust the tension of vocal cords, not to mention the mouth and tongue shapes and head angles that also affect the sound, and if you don't pause for those milliseconds, you vocalize the slide in between.
Throat singers don't use their vocal cords for their multiple notes, they use their esophagus, mouth, even sinuses I think, as part of a complex wind instrument with multiple resonating chambers. It's still a biological system that needs time to change its shape.
What I heard on Laura's video I believe, but it's a very impressive feat.