Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Overview/Objectives:

What actually makes a voice attractive? Can you train your voice? How does voice work? These and many other questions will be explored in the seminar. You will learn to develop your own voice potential in order to achieve a pleasant external effect and to prevent functional voice disorders.

  

Contents:

• Permeable posture and healthy breathing as the basis for voice
• Anatomy and physiology of breathing/voicing
• Frequency spectrum of voice
• Influence of age, gender and pathological characteristics
• Trainability of voice
• Voice sound and its levels of effect (high-low, light-dark, physiological-pathological, vowel colors, twang, overtones)
• Articulation
• Effective speaking
• Expressive effect of voice and its emotional chargeability
• Vocal confidence in speaking
• Carrying capacity, economical use of voice and resilience of voice

  

Methods:

• Pronunciation and articulation exercises
• Individual one-on-one training
• Theoretical input
• Group discussion
• Analysis of listening examples and participants

  

Prerequisite for participation:

none

  

Work Expenditure:

1 ECTS: active participation + recording reflection video

 

Lecturer:

Fabian Eckenfels is Dipl.-Sprechwissenschaftler, scientific research and doctorate on voice, trainer for speaking/voice/vocal/body/text, as well as yoga/ fitness trainer.