Workshop on the Analysis-Synthesis of the Singing Voice
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
14-15 December 2022
Amphitheater Drakopoulos, University of Athens, Main Building,
Panpistimiou 30

supported by the
ASMA Project (asma.music.uoa.gr)

organized by the
Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology, LabMAT
Music Deaprtment, NKUA

PROGRAM

Wednesday 14/12
9.30/ Welcome greetings
9.45/Prof. Johan Sundberg (KTH, Se) “Timbre contributions and control of the glottal air
flow, the raw material of the voice.“
10.30/ Prof. Claudia Manfredi (UniFI, It) “Study of the singing voice with objective
techniques: its usefulness and limits.”
11.00/ Prof. Malte Kob (University of Vienna, AU) “Chances and limitations of acoustic voice
analysis methods”
11.30/break
12.00/Axel Roebel (IRCAM, Fr). Deep Learning Algorithms for Analysis and Transformation
of Singing Style
12.30/Prof Graham Welch (UCL, UK) Visual feedback Technologies for singing assistance
(online)
13.00/Prof Henrich Nathalie (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, Fr) (online)

13.30.-14.30 Round table: Current trends on the analysis/synthesis of the singing voice in vocal
pedagogy
14.30. Light Lunch (Tavern/ANDREAS)
15.30.  Guided visit at the Dionysos theater and the Museum of Acropolis
21.00. Dinner (The cave of Acropolis)

Thursday 15/12
9.30-10.30: Medicine in singing performance
Prof.Thanos Bibas (School of Medicine, NKUA)
Prof.Stelios Papathanassiou (University of Patras)
10.30-11.30: Singing voice and AI
Prof. Vassilis Katsouros (ILSP, Athena Institute)

Dr. Maximos Kaliakatsos (ILSP, Athena Institute)
11.30/Break
12.00/Prof Anastasia Georgaki (NKUA): The ASMA Project for assisting vocal pedagogy in
the classroom
12.15-13.00./ Areti Andreopoulou, Natalia Kotsani, George Dedousis: The ASMA toolkit
box
13.00/ Jacob Steinhauer/Evangelos Angelakis/Sofia Stavropoulou- Teachers’s Guidebook –
Aesthetics-Somatosensory Learning and Singing Cognition

13.45. ASMA Tools DEMONSTRATION & Discussion

14.30. Light lunch (Tavern Andreas)
15.30. Sound Walk at the Ancient agora and Kerameikos cemetery

20.30. Dinner