The designs are informed by the geometrical and material logics that underlie the human musculoskeletal system; specifically, the complex structure of muscles, connective tissues, tendons, and ligaments that modulate the human voice.
Emotion induced bodily changes affect the functioning of the voice thereby modulating the rate, intensity, and spectral quality of vocalizations.
Aw makes a credible job of modulating the varying tones of voice by which the smiling villain of the first part comes to be seen as the weeping cuckold of the third.
The canvas grins through, modulating the whiteness.
The book explores how legislation, including New York's amended 2007 noise code, has helped modulate the full-throated voice of the city.
Robert Ashley used audio feedback in his avant-garde piece The Wolfman (1964) by setting up a howl between the microphone and loudspeaker and then singing into the microphone in way that modulated the feedback with his voice.
The birds can modulate the sound coming from its voice box by adjusting their tongue--the only animal known to do this other than humans.
Imaging methods providing higher spatial resolution (i.e., fMRI— Blasi et al., 2011; fNIRS— Grossmann et al., 2010) have shown that emotional voice stimuli modulate the activation of several brain areas in addition to the temporal cortex (e.g., the insula, the orbitofrontal cortex, the inferior frontal cortex).
But Nannerl's deftly modulating voice is the lead, by turns funny, frustrated, ribald, joyous and bitter, as she plainly recognizes that, for Wolfgang, she is "a tax on his conscience".
