Harmonics: your voice’s fingerprint
A sung note is never a single frequency. It’s a fundamental accompanied by a train of harmonics, and how that…
Blog
The science of the voice, in your language.
Articles on acoustics, vocal technique, and anatomy, written for singers and teachers: no unexplained jargon, with an experiment to try today with your own voice.
Formants: why the same note sounds different in every mouth
Twang, belting, and the opera ‘ring’ aren’t magic: they’re geometry. Here’s how formants — the resonances that shape your voice…
The five muscles that decide your note (a quick anatomy of the larynx)
You don’t sing with your throat — you sing with a team of tiny muscles you never see. Here’s the…
What does a spectrogram see that your ear can’t hear?
Your voice, turned into an image. Here’s how to read a spectrogram, the tool that makes visible what a trained…
Your voice is a guitar inside a trumpet: source-filter theory in 5 minutes
Why do two people singing the same note sound so different? The answer has been sitting in acoustics for over…
Want to see how your own voice behaves?
Analyze your voice