Choir

Female and male listeners were similarly sensitive to increased high-frequency spectral energy in the singer's formant (SF) region in male choir performances, but only female listeners preferred the enhancement. (a) Listener sensitivity scores, indicating that female and male listeners identified excerpts from performances with girls in the audience (and with enhanced SFs) at greater than chance level for the Chorale (i.e. the bulk of female and male…

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic With fans flocking to finally catch a glimpse of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Seth Rogen (responsible for lending his golden pipes to Donkey Kong), has shared his thoughts on past iterations of everyone’s favorite plumbing brothers. In an interview with Variety, Rogen discusses what attracted him to The Super Mario Bros. Movie in the first place — and more importantly, how the 1995 live-action adaptation Mario Bros. broke his little 11-year-old heart. “When I was 11, I saw the…

Escolania de Montserrat is so old that it is not clear how old it even is. The all-boys choir, who live and perform in a Benedictine abbey high on Monserrat mountain in Catalonia, Spain, is one of the oldest vocal ensembles in Europe, and predates the more widely known Vienna Boys Choir by several hundred years.Speaking from Montserrat, the Escolania’s prefect, Father Efrén de Montellà, says that no one knows exactly how old the choir is, but the first written records of its existence appeared in 1307.“We know the…

The guests for ‘Sam Ryder Rocks New Year’s Eve’ on BBC One and iPlayer have been announced. Ryder will be joined by Spice Girl Melanie C, Norwegian singer and songwriter Sigrid, The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins and the electrifying House Gospel Choir. Made by BBC Studios Entertainment, this end of year party will see Ryder perform some of his favourite songs spanning the decades with help from his guests which are guaranteed to get the nation singing and dancing as we welcome 2023.  After the River Thames…

It’s now all but impossible to predict what Teenage Engineering’s next musical contraption will be. As the company has started to extend its design prowess to other products, like the Playdate handheld, it seems more comfortable getting experimental with its own hardware, as is evident by this collection of wooden dolls that can ‘sing’ individually, or as part of a larger, expensive choir.The last major release from Teenage Engineering was the PO-80 Record Factory: a very non-digital music toy that can actually be used to…

Kanye West’s faith-based school is searching for new talent.Earlier this week, Donda Academy announced it will auditions for its gospel choir on behalf of Sunday Service—a worship music group Ye started in January 2019. The choir, led by Jason White, has performed alongside Kanye at Sunday Service events across the country, and even assisted his stage productions and musical records.Months after the Sunday Service launched, White spoke to Rolling Stone about his role as choir director as well as the team’s overall…