Christian T. Herbst

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Christian T. Herbst (* 1970 ) is an Austrian biophysicist and singing teacher .

Career

After studying vocal pedagogy at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Herbst worked as a vocal trainer for several years . a. with the Tölzer Knabenchor , the Salzburg Cathedral Choir Boys and the Salzburg State Music School "Musikum". During this activity he became interested in the physics and physiology of the voice. Characterized by a one-year research stay at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University , he decided to devote himself full-time to vocal research. After completing his doctorate in biophysics (2012 with Jan Švec, University of Olomouc ), he worked at the Laboratory for Bioacoustics (Department of Cognitive Biology ) at the University of Vienna and as a postdoc researcher at the Voice Research Laboratory (Department of Biophysics, University of Olomouc ). Since 2016 he has been working on the project " Comparative Biomechanics of Mammalian Sound Production ", financed by an APART grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences . He was visiting professor at the Primate Research Institute of the University of Kyoto and is currently lecturer for acoustics at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Herbst is a member of the Advisory Board of the Voice Foundation , as well as an editorial board member of the Journal of Voice and Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Vocology .

As part of the investigation of physiological processes in the singer's larynx, Herbst published several award-winning works in international journals. His acoustic analysis of the singing and speaking voice of Freddie Mercury met with great media interest worldwide. Herbst developed the Phasegram , a method for the visualization of chaos and phenomena close to chaos, and Electroglottographic wavegrams , a visualization technique of the vocal cord oscillation in speech and song. As head of the laboratory for bioacoustics at the Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna , he conducts studies on the physics of voice production in mammals. In this context, he published, among other things, a study on the physical voice production mechanism of infrasound sounds in African elephants .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian T. Herbst, Stellan Hertegard, Daniel Zangger-Borch, Per-Ake Lindestad (2017). Freddie Mercury - Acoustic Analysis of Speaking Fundamental Frequency, Vibrato and Subharmonics. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 42 (1), 29-38 - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/14015439.2016.1156737
  2. ↑ BBC Newshour: The science of Freddie Mercury's voice - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03s95h5
  3. ↑ npr: Why Freddie Mercury's Voice Was So Great, As Explained By Science - https://www.npr.org/2016/04/25/475611808/why-freddie-mercurys-voice-was-so-great-as- explained-by-science? t = 1549544747312
  4. ↑ https://www.altmetric.com/details/6759387
  5. ^ Christian T. Herbst, Hanspeter Herzel, Jan G. Svec, Megan Wyman, WTS Fitch (2013). "Visualization of system dynamics using phasegrams," R Soc Interface, 10 (85), 1-14. - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0288
  6. ^ Christian T. Herbst, WTS Fitch, Jan G. Švec (2010). "Electroglottographic wavegrams: a technique for visualizing vocal fold dynamics noninvasively," J Acoust Soc Am 128, 3070-3078. - http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3493423
  7. ↑ Christian T. Herbst, Angela S. Stoeger, Roland Frey, Jörg Lohscheller, Ingo R. Titze, Michaela Gumpenberger, W. Tecumseh Fitch (2012). "How Low Can You Go? Physical Production Mechanism of Elephant Infrasonic Vocalizations," Science, 337 (6094), 595-599 - http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6094/595.abstract
personal data
SURNAME Herbst, Christian T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biophysicist and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1970