Vocal fold biomechanical analysis for the singing voice

Teaching the adequate use of the singing voice conveys a lot of knowledge in musical performance as well as in objective estimation techniques involving the use of air, muscles, room and body acoustics, and the tuning of a fine instrument as the human voice. Although subjective evaluation and training is a very delicate task to be carried out only by expert singers, biomedical engineering may help contributing with well - funded methodologies developed for the study of voice pathology. The present study is a preliminary study of exploratory character describing the performance of a student singer in a regular classroom under the point of view of vocal fold biomechanics. Estimate s of biomechanical parameters obtained from singing voice are given and their use i n the classroom is discussed.

Evolución de los sistemas técnicos de reproducción musical

Con el fin de analizar la caracterización del proceso de evolución de los sistemas técnicos de reproducción musical se han planteado dos vías principales de análisis: en primer lugar, el estudio de las características técnicas de cuatro sistemas de reproducción que se han considerado representativos de dicho avance (sistemas basados en disco de vinilo, casete compacto, disco compacto y formato de codificación perceptual) y, en segundo lugar, el funcionamiento de dichos sistemas dentro del concepto que se ha denominado como cadena de transmisión de información de tipo musical. A través de la evaluación del grado de evolución de cada sistema y de su posterior comparación se procederá a realizar dicha caracterización. Para ello se tendrán en cuenta factores objetivos como, por ejemplo, la calidad de la señal de audio pero también cualitativos como, por ejemplo, la portabilidad que pueda proporcionar un tipo de sistema u otro. Por otra parte, se plantea un segundo objetivo que es actualizar la definición de reproductor, si así se desprende de los análisis, con la aparición de reproductores basados en codificación perceptual. ABSTRACT. In order to analyze the characterization of the process of evolution of technical systems of music playback considered two main ways of analysis: first, the study of the technical characteristics of four playback systems that have been considered representative of the advance (based on vinyl, compact cassette, compact disc and perceptual formats coding systems) and, second, the operation of these systems within the concept that has been called chain of information transmission of music. Through the evaluation of the degree of development of each system and its subsequent comparison will proceed to make such characterization. For this objective kept in mind factors such as the quality of the audio signal but also qualitative, for example, portability that can provide a particular device type will be considered. Moreover, a second objective is to update the definition of the player, if it is apparent from the analysis, with the appearance of players based on perceptual coding arises.