india additive monks

I'm going to be training sound people at [TIPA] the Tibetan Institute
for Performing Arts.

I was hoping to give a presentation on sound basics(sine waves,
frequency, harmonics) I thought it would be really cool if I used
additive synthesis to demonstrate harmonics, and then used that
additive synthesizer to do a vowelizing. (Like buddhist monks do)

you would think that (all harmonics equal(pulsewave)) with (two
harmonics boosted( formants ))would work.

my additive synthesizer consists on a bunch of partial~ objects
(included with max/msp)

Anyone have a method for getting a list of harmonic amplitudes to
vowelize? usually you would just use a bandpass filter but I want
to do it additively so they can see the individual harmonic volumes
going up and down.

-matt

I cant upload the whole patch but what I'm using to generate the
amplitudes is here
(requires lobjects)