April 2008 Blog News (48)

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, March 31st to April 3rd 2004 (ISMA2004), Nara, Japan

False vocal fold surface waves during Sygyt singing: a theoretical study



Chen-Gia Tsai



1. Introduction



Overtone singing is a vocal technique found in Central Asian cultures such as Tuva and Mongolia, by which one singer produces a high pitch of nF0 along with a low drone pitch of F0 (F0 is the fundamental frequency, n = 6, 7, ...13 in typical performances). The voice of overtone singing is characterized by a sharp formant centered at nF0.…

Perception of Overtone Singing



Chen-Gia Tsai



Pitch strength



Voices of overtone-singing differ from normal voices in having a sharp formant Fk (k denotes Kh??mei), which elicits the melody pitch fk = nf0. For normal voices, the bandwidths of formants are always so large that the formants merely contribute to the perception of timbre. For overtone-singing voices, the sharp formant Fk can contribute to the perception of pitch.



A pitch…

First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun





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Observation of Laryngeal Movements for Throat Singing

Vibrations of two pairs of folds in the human larynx



Ken-Ichi Sakakibara*1, Tomoko Konishi, Emi Zuiki Murano*2, Hiroshi Imagawa*2, Masanobu Kumada*3, Kazumasa Kondo*4, and Seiji Niimi*5

*1 NTT Communication Science Laboratories, 3-1, Morinosato…

Overtone Singing

Chen-Gia Tsai



* Perception of overtone singing

* Physical modeling of the vocal tract of a Sygyt singer

* False vocal fold surface waves during Sygyt singing: A hypothesis

* Kargyraa and meditation

The voice of overtone singing is characterized by a prominent formant. In this spectrum of a sound produced by a Taiwanese overtone singer, the 10th harmonic is stronger than its flanking…

TSAI Chen-Gia, Ph.D. Acoustics, Taiwan

Vocal fold vibration and singing



* Ultrasonic imaging of vocal folds

* Vocal fold vibration as sea waves on a porous seabed

* Overtone singing & high-frequency vocalization

* Growl voice & spine stability





Chen-Gia Tsai

Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Musicology

National Taiwan University, Taipei, TAIWAN



Ph.D.,…

Theodore Levin

Professor

PhD, MFA Princeton University

BA Amherst College

Theodore Levin is an ethnomusicologist whose research has focused on the traditional music of Central Asia, Siberia, and Slavic Russia. He is an active record producer, concentrating on folk music and classical music repertory from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. For five years he worked as an impresario in US-Soviet cultural exchanges and…

Leonardo FUKS : curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae of Leonardo Fuks, Ph.D.

Leonardo Fuks,



born in 1962, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.



Address: Av. Osvaldo Cruz 112, apto. 801, Flamengo, 22250-060, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil



Rio de Janeiro - BRASIL



Telephone: + 55 (21) 5511582 ; Fax: +55 (21) 5514723



Undergraduate Education



* Mechanical Engineering - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ 1980-1987

*…

Leonardo FUKS : biography

at the lab with reed woodwindsfakir oboist (by L.F.)

Leonardo Fuks, PhD





Leonardo Fuks is a Brazilian engineer and musician who has just finished his doctoral thesis at the Department. His research project Breathing and blowing in the woodwinds: musical, acoustical and physiological aspects was supervised by prof. Johan Sundberg and supported by a CAPES grant. Back to Rio de…

Sven Grawunder is a researcher on phonetics and sprechwissenschaft at Martin-Luther Universitat in Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik. He wrote his dissertation



"Die Erforschung eines besonderen Stimmgebrauchs - Obertongesang vs. Kehlgesang"



in 1999 in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and has studied the problem of overtones and undertones in throat singing .







Grawunder, Sven. 2003.



Comparison of Voice…