University of Sydney
Abstract:
This paper, authored by Pat Wilson, William Thorpe and Jean Callaghan, and presented by Pat Wilson, looks at singers, computers, singing teachers, cognitive load, visual feedback, acoustic analysis and motor skills learning.
To find out what happens to skills acquisition when a learner singer is shown a visual analogy of aspects of their voice on a computer screen in real time, the investigation assessed 56 participants (age range = 18-60 years) with skills ranging from confident trained singer to untrained non-singer. Two functionally different display screens offering visual feedback were used with two groups of participants; the third (control) group had a non-interactive screen display.
In a straightforward pre-test/intervention/post-test
structure, demographic and acoustic data were obtained. Although all results have
yet to be analysed, early results indicate
This paper accepted for presentation at APSCOM2, (2nd conference of the Asia-Pacific
Society for the Cognitive Science of Music) at Seoul, South Korea, 4th –
6th August 2005, and generously supported by the 2005 AMPS Graduate Student
International Conference Travel Assistance Scheme.]
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