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For the past decade, I have worked at the top of the academic field as a voice teacher and music performance coach, as the research director of a major academic voice and sound analysis lab, as the head of a robust voice pedagogy program, and as an innovative developer and facilitator of online music collaboration solutions. I can help to save you time and heartache, make evidence-based recommendations based on my extensive first-hand experience, and help you to map out a multi-year plan to grow what you offer.

navigating the academic voice world

  • I have years of experience with the academic budgeting and curriculum development process.

  • I can help you to design a plan that produces actionable applications for students and faculty from the start.

  • I offer planning, design, and education/training resources.

  • I have no financial interest in any of the solutions I recommend. I am only interested in unlocking the potential of your community.

how to build a voice analysis lab

A voice lab can greatly augment active and experiential learning as your students seek to understand how it is the voice works and how they work the voice. Yes, a lab can serve as a resource for more advanced research projects leading toward the creation and dissemination of knowledge through public presentations and publications. However, as much of the voice pedagogy literature presents voice science as the evidence that underpins the practical application, a voice lab offers students the chance to re-create seminal studies, deepen their appreciation for how challenging good research can be, and offer them tools to push beyond the conclusions of the studies that they read.

Many modern voice pedagogy teachers feel the pressure to offer access to this sort of technology as a supplement to the classes they teach. How one plans to spend money on this sort of equipment matters. It is possible to waste money on gear that guarantees problematic results in the effort to get something going as quickly as possible. My experience well prevent you from spending money unwisely and will ensure that students may explore their voices without compromising on quality.

I have a significant experience selecting and implementing a wide variety of non-invasive analysis technologies. These include:

  • Calibrated acoustic signal capture, processing, and analysis, including all elements of the audio signal chain and best practices for capturing clean and useable signals.

  • Labs exploring acoustic registers and resonance strategies, labs exploring perception of the singing voice, and practical introductions to both the harmonic and transient theories of voice production.

  • The use of Praat (including the Phonanium Clinical Voice Lab and a simple introduction to Praat scripting), VoceVista Video Pro, and the Tolvan Suite

  • Calibrated use of the RespTrack respiration measurement system, including use of the hardware and both recording and analysis apps.

  • Use of and best practices for the Glottal Enterprises Electroglottograph and the Glottal Enterprises MS-110 Aeroview system, including protocols for phonation threshold pressure, nasalance, flow and pressure measurements, and inverse filtering.

  • Use of both Windows and MacOS computers


    Best practices for real-time, online music making



 

Let us explore the underlying rules of hearing to ask how the human voice might possibly be perceived. This is another way of asking what sounds the human voice is capable of making.