David M Howard

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Life

Born: 13 April 1956

Biography

David M Howard is an organist and choirmaster and he occasionally composes and arranges music for choirs. Professionally, he holds a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Human Communication (the work was on cochlear implant hearing aids and the provision of a real-time fundamental frequency signal from speech to give voice pitch to the implant as an adjunct to lipreading). He held a Chair in Music Technology at the University of York until 2017 when he moved to Royal Holloway to be the Founding Head of the new Department of Electronic Engineering. His research interest in pitch continues with experimental work on tuning in choirs and the development of his Vocal Tract Organ as a new musical instrument and research tool for pitching experiments. He and colleagues created the sound of a 3,000 year-old Egyptian Mummy, Nesyamun (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-56316-y), using his Vocal Tract Organ to huge acclaim. David was invited to give a TED talk on the Mummy work (https://www.ted.com/talks/david_m_howard_can_we_recreate_the_voice_of_a_3_000_year_old_mummy?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare).

David is organist at St. Mary's Thorpe in Surrey and Musical Director of Feltham Choral Society (https://www.felthamchoralsociety.org.uk/) who sing 3 concerts per annum. When in York he directed The Beningbrough Singers, Vale of York Voices (who sang Evensong once a month in York Minster), and York Cantores (2013-2015) and he was organist at St. Luke's York. Resulting from his professional work as a Professor of Music Technology as well as his choral conducting work, David has written books on the acoustics of voice production as well as choral singing. His 2015 book "Choral Singing and healthy Voice production" combines his research interests in musical acoustics and voice production with advice on keeping the singing voice healthy. David is one of the three Editors of the Oxford Handbook of Singing (https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/35194).

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Publications

  • Edmunds, T.J. and Howard, D.M. (2023). An investigation in the measurable differences between pitch perception in the voice and pitch perception of external sound sources, J. Voice, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.11.026
  • Meyer, D., Rusho, R.Z., Alam, W., Christensen, G.E., Howard, D.M., Atha, J., Hoffman, E.A., Storey, B., Titze, I.R.,and Lingala, S.G. (2022). High-resolution three-dimensional hybrid MRI + low dose CT vocal tract modeling: A cadaveric pilot study, J. Voice, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.09.013
  • Rusho, R.Z., Ahmed, A.H., Kruger, S.J., Alam, W., Meyer, D., Howard, D.M., Titze, I,R., Jacob, M., and Lingala, S.G. (2022). Rapid dynamic speech imaging at 3 Tesla using combination of a custom vocal tract coil, variable density spirals and manifold regularization, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2209.02768
  • Howard, D.M. (2022). Developmental history of the Vocal Tract Organ, J. Voice, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.06.025
  • Feng, M., and Howard, D.M. (2021). The dynamic effect of the valleculae on the singing voice – an exploratory study using 3D printed vocal tracts, J. Voice, S0892-1997(20)30459-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.12.012.
  • Cheong-Took, C, Alty, S.R., Yardim, A and Howard, D.M. (2021), Creativity first, science follows, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, May 2021.
  • Howard, D.M. (2022). Developmental history of the Vocal Tract Organ, J. Voice, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.06.025
  • Howard, D.M., Schofield, J, Fletcher, J, Baxter, K, Iball, G, Buckley, S. (2020). Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’, Nature Scientific Reports, 10, 4500, 1-6. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-56316-y
  • Williams, J., Welch, G.F., and Howard, D.M. (2020). Which sung pitch range is best for boys during voice change?, J. Voice, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2019.12.002
  • Harvey, J, Smithson, H., Siviour, C., Gasper, G., Sønnesyn, S.O., McLeish, T, Howard, D.M. (2019). A thirteenth-century theory of speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 146 (2), 937-947.
  • Howard, D.M., Welch, G.F., Himonides, E., and Owens, M (2018). The developing female chorister voice: case-study evidence of musical development, J. Voice, 33, (4), 516-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.01.014
  • D’Amario, S., Howard, D.M., Daffern, H, and Pennill, N. (2018). A longitudinal study of intonation in an a cappella singing quintet, J. Voice, 34, (1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.07.015
  • Howard, D.M. (2018). The Vocal Tract Organ: A New Musical Instrument Using 3-D Printed Vocal Tracts, J. Voice, 32, (6) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2017.09.014
  • Vos, R.R, Daffern, H., and Howard, D.M. (2016). Resonance tuning in three girl choristers, J. Voice, 31, (1), 122.e1–122.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2016.01.013
  • Howard, D.M. (2015). The Vocal Tract Organ and the Vox Humana organ stop, Invited Paper for Special Issue of The Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 7, (3), 265-277, DOI: 10.1386/jmte.7.3.265_1; [ISSN: 17527066; Online ISSN: 17527074].
  • Howard, D.M., Schofield, J, Fletcher, J, Baxter, K, Iball, G, Buckley, S. (2020). Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’, Nature Scientific Reports, 10, 4500, 1-6. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-56316-y
  • Howard, D.M. (2015). Choral singing and healthy voice production, Tunbridge Wells: Willow Leaf Publishing. [ISBN-10: 0992621615] [ISBN-13: 978-0992621612].
  • Howard, D.M. (2015). Pitch, Models of, in: Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences - An Encyclopedia, Sage Reference Publication, 82, [ISBN-10: 1452283028] [ISBN13: 9781452283029].
  • Howard, D.M. Singing acoustics, in: Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences - An Encyclopedia, Sage Reference Publication, 136, [ISBN-10: 1452283028] [ISBN13: 9781452283029].
  • Howard, D.M., and Parncutt, R. (2015). Tuning Systems, in: Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences - An Encyclopedia, Sage Reference Publication, 191, [ISBN-10: 1452283028] [ISBN13: 9781452283029].
  • Howard, D.M. (2015). Intonation and Staying in Tune in A Cappella Choral Singing, in: The Oxford Handbook on Singing, Welch, G.F., Howard, D.M., and Nix, J. (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, [DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660773.013.28].
  • Howard, D.M. and Angus, J.A.S. (2014). 音乐声学与心理声学 (第三版), (Chinese Edition of Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 4th Ed.), Posts and Telecom Press, [ISBN: 978-7-115-33876-2].
  • Howard, D.M., (2014). The Vocal Tract Organ, Innovation in music 201 - 3KES Transactions on Innovations in Music Conference, 1, (1), 7-19, Shorham-by-sea: Future Technology Press. [ISBN: 9780956151681].
  • Howard, D.M. (2008). Acoustic and physiological aspects of the castrato voice, In: Moreschi and the voice of the castrato, Clapton, N., London: Haus Books, 227-258, [ISBN: 9781905791422].

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