Rock and pop voices digitally analyzed
Using web software from the Institute for Software and Multimedia Technology at TU Dresden, vocal characteristics of pop, jazz, blues and gospel vocalists can be explored interactively and playfully.
What is special about pop voices? How do jazz, blues and gospel vocalists differ from one another? These and similar questions are the focus of the research project "Voice and Singing in Popular Music in the USA (1900-1960)" led by Weimar musicology professor Martin Pfleiderer.
The project is based at the Institute of Musicology at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar and the FSU Jena. Within its framework, the web tool is available, which uses a selection of more than 200 vocal recordings to visualize characteristics of voices and singing styles and relate them to each other.
Characteristics of the design such as rough or husky vocalization, vibrato, glissando, offbeats as well as dynamics, articulation and timing are presented graphically and linked to genres, artists and record labels.
More info: hfm-weimar.de/popvoices/vm/main.htm
