(Please excuse the multi-replies.)
>i have asked in the past 'has >spectral analysis caused you to make any radically new changes based on that >analysis?' for that, i got no answer.
As another lister has said, yes. My entire understanding of how the voice works changed. By understanding what a frequency spectrum represents - ie how that spectrum relates to the voice that made it, the source and the filter - I had a whole new mindset of interrelationships, and causes and effects. Instead of a sack full of unrelatable tricks, I had a cohesive framework no more arcane (though far more miraculous) than a car engine. Even the bits we don't yet understand became like black boxes where a known input produced a known output, even though how it made the transformation wasn't understood.
I would point out that I, personally, don't use spectral analysis in my teaching, only the *concepts*. On the other hand, I do a lot of spectral analysis in my research, so it is being constantly reinforced.
>Actually, wouldn't the readings be codifying information graphically which >they perceive otherwise through their ears? I dunno... just a thought. I've >never done spectographic analysis. It strikes me as potentially fascinating, >though.
The (computer-based) frequency spectrum displays what the microphone hears. The spectrum is thus a product of the sound made, the room acoustics, the microphone's sensitivity characteristics, and the computer program calculating the spectrum. Human hearing is a product of the sound made, the room acoustics, the individual hearing mechanism, the mental processing of that sound, and individual subjectivity (psychology). I should love to see more perceptual research done, but it's hard to get inside someone else's mind.
> This has actually shown to be quite effective in >therapies because it gives the child a different approach or learning >mechanism to make the needed changes in the voice.
Drs Van Doorn, Thorpe and Callaghan (Uni of Sydney, USyd and Uni of Western Syd) have just been awarded an Australian Research Council Large Grant over 3 years to study the use of visual spectral feedback in singing. This follows a smaller study which was very promising.
Kind regards
Sally
|
| |