Online CPD Event | How Does it Sound to You? A Deep Dive into Vocal Acoustics

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How Does it Sound to You? A Deep Dive into Vocal Acoustics

Speakers: Christian Herbst, Heather Baker, Samyukta Ranganathan
Date: Saturday 13 February
Time: 9.30am–1.30pm
Format: Online
Cost: £20–£80

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After the success of our inaugural online conference day, we are delighted to bring you another event this year – How Does it Sound to You? A Deep Dive into Vocal Acoustics. 

Join us in February as we explore all things acoustics. The research around vocal acoustics can be intimidating and complex; however, once you dive in, it provides us with wonderful strategies and resources to help singers increase vocal efficiency, improve vocal timbre, and build sustainable, lifelong performance practices. Our keynote speaker for this event is Christian Herbst, an Austrian voice pedagogue and scientist, well-known on the voice conference circuit. The focus of Christian’s scientific work is both on singing voice physiology and on the physics of voice production in mammals. In this talk, he will share insights on the non-linear source filter model, exploring how things above the vocal folds and outside of the human body can impact voice, and what the relevance of this is for teaching singing. 

Following this, AOTOS member and leading contemporary singing teacher, Heather Baker, will lead us in an interactive listening workshop. Heather is co-founder of the international organisation the Institute of Vocal Advancement and brings to this session years of experience as a singing teacher and trainer of singers. In the session, she will guide us through listening examples from across a range of genres and voice types to explore the common features and the differences and consider how we can train our ears to develop our pedagogical craft. 

The CPD day ends with International member, Samyukta Ranganathan, demonstrating how we can use biofeedback through spectrographic software to aid students’ learning and progress. Samyukta is best known to AOTOS for her previous presentations on Indian Classical Singing and her volunteer work as an Editorial Assistant. In both her studio teaching practice and her doctoral research, Samyukta uses biofeedback to explore acoustic features of singing voices and will share some of her top tips for getting started with these technologies.