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This research focuses on how singing is perceived when amplifying mechanisms vastly enhance its energy contours. This is especially true in big auditoriums, churches or outdoor performances. In practice, the singing voice is altered in its phonetic characteristics. The same time, the listener’s perceptional sensory mechanisms are affected, and in terms of neurophysiological processes, an altered acoustic form is received. Apart from these findings, a new unit for evaluating the equivalent to pure acoustic singing is proposed, when using instrumentation to amplify phonation.
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The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Aristotle University Orchestra (the Organizing Committee of the Orchestra, its Director, Dimitrios Dimopoulos, and its musicians) for providing part of the acoustic material used in this survey.
Another part was recorded in the church of the Dormition of Our Lady in Alexandria, Imathia district of Central Macedonia, under the blessing of His Eminence the Metropolitan of Berea, Naousa and Campania, the Most Reverend Panteleimon.
The remnant of the audio files that were analyzed was recorded in various schools of Thessaloniki, like the Ecclesiastical Lyceum of Neapoli-Stavroupoli and the Experimental Primary School for Intercultural Learning, under the auspices of their Principals, Dr. Aikaterini Galoni and Georgia Panagiotopoulou respectively.
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Politis, D., Kyriafinis, G., Constantinidis, J., Paris, N. (2018). Neurophysiology-Based Acoustic Measurements of Singing Contours. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning. IMCL 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 725. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_74
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