The presentation demonstrates the application of basic acoustic resonator models to some vocal techniques such as formant matching, singer’s formant, overtone and undertone singing. Acoustic measurement principles for a quantitative characterisation are presented.

Malte Kob was born 1967 in Hamburg where he completed the education as part-time church musician (C-Schein) during his school years. He performed piano, singing, choral conducting, church organ and jazz during his studies of electrical engineering at Technical University Braunschweig. At PTB Braunschweig he completed his studies with a Diploma thesis on absorption measurement in reverberant rooms. After his dissertation on physical modelling of the singing voice at the Institute of Technical Acoustics of RWTH Aachen University he worked on voice analysis and synthesis at the phoniatrics department of the University Hospital Aachen. Since 2009 he works as professor for theory of music transmission at the Erich Thienhaus Institute of Detmold University of Music. Teaching comprises the coordination of the engineering courses of the Tonmeister program as well as the M.Sc. and doctoral programmes on Music Acoustics. His research interests are on singing voice, creation, propagation and blending of musical sounds, ensemble sound and the interaction of humans and room during music performance. On 1 October 2022, Malte Kob took up the professorship for voice research at the Antonio Salieri Department of Vocal Studies and Vocal Research in Music Education.