Clearing Up The Controversy About Our Non-Profit and Kickstarter Campaign for Harsh Vocals

Clearing Up The Controversy About Our Non-Profit and Kickstarter Campaign for Harsh Vocals

Pinned Comment for the Kickstarter!

I have SO many more research resources I'd love to share with you all! These writings have made this study of ours possible.

"Music and Mind" edited by Renee Fleming - Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

A few papers on vocal distortion:

Aean, McGlashan, Sadolin (2017): Laryngostroboscopic Exploration of Rough Vocal Effects in Singing and their Statistical Recognizability: An Anatomical and Physiological Description and Visual Recognizability Study of Distorion, Growl, Rattle, and Grunt using laryngostroboscopic Imaging and Panel Assessment

Aean, McGlashan, Christoph, Sadolin (2021): Extreme Vocal Effects Distortion, Growl, Grunt, Rattle, and Creaking as Measured by Electroglottography and Acoustics in 32 Healthy Professional Singers

Tailleur, M., Pinquier, J., Millot, L., Vogel, C., & Lagrange, M. (2024). EMVD dataset: a dataset of extreme vocal distortion techniques used in heavy metal. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17732.

Sakakibara, Fuks, Imagawa, Tayama (2004): Growl Voice in Ethnic and Pop Styles

Guzman, Acevedo, Leiva, Orti, Hormanabal, Quezada (2018): Aerodynamic Characteristics of Growl Voice and Reinforced Falsetto in Metal Singing

Guzman, M., Barros, M., Espinoza, F., Herrera, A., Parra, D., Muñoz, D., & Lloyd, A. (2014). Laryngoscopic, acoustic, perceptual, and functional assessment of voice in rock singers. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 65(5), 248-256.

Unterhofer, Marscheider, Auer, Jeleff-Wöfler, Graf (2023): Prevalence of Dysphonia in Metal Singers and the Impact of Vocal Education: A Subjective Analysis

Ritlop, T. (2020). ‘You Scream Like a Girl’: Growling and Screaming Female Voices in Metal Music. Words, Music and Gender, 149-57.

Papers surrounding music, sound and singing therapy:

Chanda, M. L., & Levitin, D. J. (2013). The neurochemistry of music. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(4), 179-193.

de Witte, M., Spruit, A., van Hooren, S., Moonen, X., & Stams, G. J. (2020). Effects of music interventions on stress-related outcomes: a systematic review and two meta-analyses. Health psychology review, 14(2), 294-324.

Fancourt, D., Ockelford, A., & Belai, A. (2014). The psychoneuroimmunological effects of music: A systematic review and a new model. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 36, 15-26.

Kulinski J, Ofori EK, Visotcky A, Smith A, Sparapani R, Fleg JL.(2022) Effects of music on the cardiovascular system. Trends Cardiovasc Med.

Brown, S., Martinez, M.J., & Parsons, L.M. (2004). Passive music listening spontaneously engages limbic and paralimbic system. Neuroreport, 15(13), 2033-7.

McClellan, R. (2000). The healing forces of music: History, theory and practice. iUniverse.

Kimura, Yusuke & Ikeuchi, Masashi. (2023). Development of In Vitro Model to Elucidate the Mechanism of Cancer Development by Mechano-stress Induced by Sonic Stimulation.

Valenti D, Atlante A. (2024) Sound Matrix Shaping of Living Matter: From Macrosystems to Cell Microenvironment, Where Mitochondria Act as Energy Portals in Detecting and Processing Sound Vibrations. International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Tsai, H. F., Chen, Y. R., Chung, M. H., Liao, Y. M., Chi, M. J., Chang, C. C., & Chou, K. R. (2014). Effectiveness of music intervention in ameliorating cancer patients’ anxiety, depression, pain, and fatigue: A meta-analysis. Cancer nursing, 37(6), E35-E50.

Gramaglia, C., Gambaro, E., Vecchi, C., Licandro, D., Raina, G., Pisani, C., ... & Zeppegno, P. (2019). Outcomes of music therapy interventions in cancer patients—A review of the literature. Critical reviews in oncology/hematology, 138, 241-254.

Just a few related papers from our research team:

Titze, I. R. (2024). Simulation of Multiple Source Vocalization in the Larynx: How True Folds, False Folds, and Aryepiglottic Folds May Interact. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(3), 802-810

Maxfield, L. (2015). Healthy Voices, Healthy Singers. Journal of Singing, 71(4).

Titze, I. R., Palaparthi, A., Cox, K., Stark, A., Maxfield, L., & Manternach, B. (2021). Vocalization with semi-occluded airways is favorable for optimizing sound production. PLOS Computational Biology, 17(3), e1008744.

Stark, A., Bunton, K., Samlan, R., Story, B. (2021). Cross-sectional area and length changes with a semi-occluded vocal tract: the role of the epilarynx in human phonation. University of Arizona, doctoral dissertation.

Smialek, E. T. (2015). Genre and expression in extreme metal music, ca. 1990–2015. McGill University (Canada).

Smialek, E., Depalle, P., & Brackett, D. (2012, September). A spectrographic analysis of vocal techniques in extreme metal for musicological analysis. In ICMC.

Czedik-Eysenberg, I., Smialek, E., & Herbst, J. P. (2024, May). Towards an Acoustic-Semantic Space of Extreme Metal Vocal Styles. In 50th DAGA Annual Conference for Acoustics (pp. 979-982). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik.

There are more resources, just no space left!