Ian Howell
@ianhowell.bsky.social
I’m in the part where I write books.
www.embodiedmusiclab.com
www.embodiedmusiclab.com
Come work with me this summer!
May 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Come work with me this summer!
My new book, Hearing Singing: A Guide to Functional Listening and Voice Perception is out! www.embodiedmusiclab.com/hearing-sing...
Hearing Singing Book Ian Howell — Embodied Music Lab
This page shares information about Ian Howell's book Hearing Singing: A Guide to Functional Listening and Voice Perception. Hearing Singing provides a wealth of discoveries at the intersection of voic...
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March 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My new book, Hearing Singing: A Guide to Functional Listening and Voice Perception is out! www.embodiedmusiclab.com/hearing-sing...
Registration for the 2025 Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Workshop & Online Course is open! Please share with your singing, voice teaching, choir directing, voice science, SLP friends :-) www.embodiedmusiclab.com/acoustic-voc...
Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy 2024 — Embodied Music Lab
An exploration of acoustic and perceptual voice pedagogy with Kenneth Bozeman, Ian Howell, Chadley Ballantyne, and more. Singers, voice teachers, vocal pedagogy, vocology.
www.embodiedmusiclab.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Registration for the 2025 Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Workshop & Online Course is open! Please share with your singing, voice teaching, choir directing, voice science, SLP friends :-) www.embodiedmusiclab.com/acoustic-voc...
Hi friends, I’ll be working on my online professional development offerings this month. First up is the web content for my new book Hearing Singing. What should the second one be? Some thoughts in thread. /1
February 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Hi friends, I’ll be working on my online professional development offerings this month. First up is the web content for my new book Hearing Singing. What should the second one be? Some thoughts in thread. /1
Dumbfounded and horrified following that press conference.
January 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Dumbfounded and horrified following that press conference.
For everyone keeping up with the EML Research Tools, major updates today for both EGG and Vibrato!
No idea what this is? We make free Praat plugins that enable practitioners to analyze voice signals and output both rich data tables and images.
Sign up: www.embodiedmusiclab.com/eml-tools-si...
No idea what this is? We make free Praat plugins that enable practitioners to analyze voice signals and output both rich data tables and images.
Sign up: www.embodiedmusiclab.com/eml-tools-si...
January 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
For everyone keeping up with the EML Research Tools, major updates today for both EGG and Vibrato!
No idea what this is? We make free Praat plugins that enable practitioners to analyze voice signals and output both rich data tables and images.
Sign up: www.embodiedmusiclab.com/eml-tools-si...
No idea what this is? We make free Praat plugins that enable practitioners to analyze voice signals and output both rich data tables and images.
Sign up: www.embodiedmusiclab.com/eml-tools-si...
On teaching:
…effective voice teaching involves using declarative language about and demonstrations of a procedural experience in order to generate a procedural experience that the singer may then ultimately describe with their own declarative language… www.embodiedmusiclab.com/hearing-sing...
…effective voice teaching involves using declarative language about and demonstrations of a procedural experience in order to generate a procedural experience that the singer may then ultimately describe with their own declarative language… www.embodiedmusiclab.com/hearing-sing...
January 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On teaching:
…effective voice teaching involves using declarative language about and demonstrations of a procedural experience in order to generate a procedural experience that the singer may then ultimately describe with their own declarative language… www.embodiedmusiclab.com/hearing-sing...
…effective voice teaching involves using declarative language about and demonstrations of a procedural experience in order to generate a procedural experience that the singer may then ultimately describe with their own declarative language… www.embodiedmusiclab.com/hearing-sing...
Bluesky...
AMA about anything.
Or about my soon to be released book about functional listening and voice perception… or about anything
AMA about anything.
Or about my soon to be released book about functional listening and voice perception… or about anything
January 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Bluesky...
AMA about anything.
Or about my soon to be released book about functional listening and voice perception… or about anything
AMA about anything.
Or about my soon to be released book about functional listening and voice perception… or about anything
Preorder now available (www.embodiedmusiclab.com/hearing-sing...)
Hearing Singing provides a wealth of discoveries at the intersection of voice perception, voice production, functional voice teaching, and functional listening, while providing exercises and actionable steps for singers and teachers.
Hearing Singing provides a wealth of discoveries at the intersection of voice perception, voice production, functional voice teaching, and functional listening, while providing exercises and actionable steps for singers and teachers.
January 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Preorder now available (www.embodiedmusiclab.com/hearing-sing...)
Hearing Singing provides a wealth of discoveries at the intersection of voice perception, voice production, functional voice teaching, and functional listening, while providing exercises and actionable steps for singers and teachers.
Hearing Singing provides a wealth of discoveries at the intersection of voice perception, voice production, functional voice teaching, and functional listening, while providing exercises and actionable steps for singers and teachers.
two interesting ideas are sticking in my mind. Both have to do with paradoxes that challenge the way you think about how the voice works, how we can work the voice, and suggest that the perceptual experience of a singing voice does not always automatically lead us to intuitive solutions. /1


January 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
two interesting ideas are sticking in my mind. Both have to do with paradoxes that challenge the way you think about how the voice works, how we can work the voice, and suggest that the perceptual experience of a singing voice does not always automatically lead us to intuitive solutions. /1


It is a good thing I have done methodical scientific research in the past, because dialing in the right grind with new beans and a new grinder and a new espresso porta filter is no joke…
January 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It is a good thing I have done methodical scientific research in the past, because dialing in the right grind with new beans and a new grinder and a new espresso porta filter is no joke…
I am starting to get in the headspace that Facebook is going to turn into a phonebook with racism and transphobia.
January 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I am starting to get in the headspace that Facebook is going to turn into a phonebook with racism and transphobia.
We understand everything about the voice through models, and most models work by either representing processes and interactions as objective objects, or by way of analogy. The complexity of the model itself frequently requires work to understand, which can create the impression of comprehension. /1
January 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We understand everything about the voice through models, and most models work by either representing processes and interactions as objective objects, or by way of analogy. The complexity of the model itself frequently requires work to understand, which can create the impression of comprehension. /1
My singing voice completely changed when I learned how to think. Yes, there was singing involved too, but my teacher Lynne Vardaman gave me a concrete process, step by step, with both clarity of purpose and mutual exclusion. The steps are Release, clarify, engage, continue, release.
January 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
My singing voice completely changed when I learned how to think. Yes, there was singing involved too, but my teacher Lynne Vardaman gave me a concrete process, step by step, with both clarity of purpose and mutual exclusion. The steps are Release, clarify, engage, continue, release.
The bummer about marketing surrounding voice teaching methods/pedagogy is that the former thrives on certainty-driven conflict. The latter thrives on nuance and contextualization. I always wonder how people pursuing the former enjoy the clients it attracts when you get into the actual material.
January 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The bummer about marketing surrounding voice teaching methods/pedagogy is that the former thrives on certainty-driven conflict. The latter thrives on nuance and contextualization. I always wonder how people pursuing the former enjoy the clients it attracts when you get into the actual material.
Whoa… Just clicked send on my final revisions for “hearing singing: a guide to functional listening and voice perception.“
I will do the marketing thing soon, but if you Google “hearing singing Howell“ a bunch of sites will pop up where you can pre-order.
I will do the marketing thing soon, but if you Google “hearing singing Howell“ a bunch of sites will pop up where you can pre-order.
January 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Whoa… Just clicked send on my final revisions for “hearing singing: a guide to functional listening and voice perception.“
I will do the marketing thing soon, but if you Google “hearing singing Howell“ a bunch of sites will pop up where you can pre-order.
I will do the marketing thing soon, but if you Google “hearing singing Howell“ a bunch of sites will pop up where you can pre-order.
“ …in someways, effective voice teaching involves using declarative language about and demonstrations of a procedural experience in order to generate a procedural experience which the singer may then ultimately describe with their own declarative language.”
January 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“ …in someways, effective voice teaching involves using declarative language about and demonstrations of a procedural experience in order to generate a procedural experience which the singer may then ultimately describe with their own declarative language.”
It definitely feels like my Facebook newsfeed is now brought to me by tonebase.
January 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It definitely feels like my Facebook newsfeed is now brought to me by tonebase.
So… I’m not not obsessively overhauling, modding, and dialing in espresso on a machine that I thought was broken…
It is all just pressure, flow, and resistance… that makes it voice science, right?
It is all just pressure, flow, and resistance… that makes it voice science, right?
January 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
So… I’m not not obsessively overhauling, modding, and dialing in espresso on a machine that I thought was broken…
It is all just pressure, flow, and resistance… that makes it voice science, right?
It is all just pressure, flow, and resistance… that makes it voice science, right?
The problem with prioritizing “simple explanations“ to principles derived from voice science is that by the time you understand the voice science enough to simplify it, you no longer have a simple understanding. You have an “elegant” understanding. Elegant rarely = simple.
January 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The problem with prioritizing “simple explanations“ to principles derived from voice science is that by the time you understand the voice science enough to simplify it, you no longer have a simple understanding. You have an “elegant” understanding. Elegant rarely = simple.
I read somewhere that the loudest possible sound on earth is 194 dB. This is because the rarefaction that either instigated that sound or mirrored the initial compression achieves a total vacuum. /1
January 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I read somewhere that the loudest possible sound on earth is 194 dB. This is because the rarefaction that either instigated that sound or mirrored the initial compression achieves a total vacuum. /1
I confess I’m still bothered by the tenor and content of the Parterre Box article from November.
January 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I confess I’m still bothered by the tenor and content of the Parterre Box article from November.
I’m working on a project right now examining the effect that AI voice extraction has on recordings of a singer/piano. The variability across tools is wide, but the good ones are shocking.
These cheap, web-based tools would make computer scientists c 2001 sit and hold their head in their hands.
These cheap, web-based tools would make computer scientists c 2001 sit and hold their head in their hands.
January 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I’m working on a project right now examining the effect that AI voice extraction has on recordings of a singer/piano. The variability across tools is wide, but the good ones are shocking.
These cheap, web-based tools would make computer scientists c 2001 sit and hold their head in their hands.
These cheap, web-based tools would make computer scientists c 2001 sit and hold their head in their hands.
I exist! I write, I teach singers, I research singing, I love technology.
January 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I exist! I write, I teach singers, I research singing, I love technology.