Singers from Nottingham

Chest vibrations in singers

Automatic Transcription of a Cappella recordings from Multiple Singers

This work presents a spectrogram factorisation method applied to automatic music transcription of a cappella performances with multiple singers. A variable-Q transform representation of the audio spectrogram is factorised with the help of a 6-dimensional sparse dictionary which contains spectral templates of vowel vocalizations. A post-processing step is proposed to remove false positive pitch ...

Are better singers smarter?

A simple restatement of the developmental stress hypothesis is that certain attributes of bird song are honest indicators of sig-naler quality because of their developmental costs. Spencer and

Malaria in Nottingham children.

In five and a half years 16 children were admitted to hospital in Nottingham suffering from malaria. Thirteen cases were caused by Plasmodium vivax and two by P falciparum, and in one the type was not identified. All were children of immigrant parents, predominantly from Pakistan, although most were born in England but had been visiting Asia. Three children were ill on or soon after arrival, bu...

Singing Actors and Dancing Singers

By looking at two recent and widely recognized productions of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (by choreographer Sasha Waltz, Berlin 2005, and theatre-director Sebastian Nübling, Basel 2006) this article discusses three main aspects: 1. Genre: Coming from a Tanztheater (Waltz) and a Sprechtheater (Nübling) background, both directors renegotiate conventions of the operatic genre, and consciously ...