'Ring' in the solo child's singing voice
This study is being carried out in the Audio Lab at the University of York in collaboration with Jenevora Williams (Guildford-based singing teacher and voice coach to the National Youth Choir) and Christian Herbst (Research Scientist at the University of Vienna), and the child soloists were recorded in the Menuhin Hall in Surrey. It links directly with the Audio Lab’s work on vocal tract acoustics and singing synthesis.
The acoustic nature of the ‘ring’ appears to be a twofold enhancement in the spectral regions of (a) the singers’ formant cluster (2.5 to 4.5 kHz) and 8-11 kHz. In both cases, the enhancement is primarily harmonic in nature when compared to equivalent singing by the same soloists without ‘ring’ as illustrated in the graph. This is well above the frequency range used for speech perception, but it is well within the human hearing range.
This study is being carried out in the Audio Lab at the University of York in collaboration with Jenevora Williams (Guildford-based singing teacher and voice coach to the National Youth Choir) and Christian Herbst (Research Scientist at the University of Vienna), and the child soloists were recorded in the Menuhin Hall in Surrey. It links directly with the Audio Lab’s work on vocal tract acoustics and singing synthesis.
The acoustic nature of the ‘ring’ appears to be a twofold enhancement in the spectral regions of (a) the singers’ formant cluster (2.5 to 4.5 kHz) and 8-11 kHz. In both cases, the enhancement is primarily harmonic in nature when compared to equivalent singing by the same soloists without ‘ring’ as illustrated in the graph. This is well above the frequency range used for speech perception, but it is well within the human hearing range.