Roomful Of Teeth: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Mix a bit of yodeling with Tuvan throat singing, add in a pinch of Sardinian cantu a tenore, fold in compositions from cutting-edge composers and you have the vocal group Roomful of Teeth. This eight-voice ensemble, which includes the 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, is gleefully dismantling the traditional definition of ensemble singing right before our ears (and teeth!). Musical descendants of the innovative extended vocal techniques of Meredith Monk, the Teeth tend to make sounds — so