Laryngology (VOICE BOXES) with Dr. Ronda Alexander

PART 1:

Voices! Singing! Anxiety busters! Breathing! The absolutely magnetic, charismatic Laryngologist and surgeon Dr. Ronda Alexander makes her long-awaited Ologies debut to chat about why we sound the way we do, hormones and voices, Elvis accents, opera singing, kid voices, turning back time vocally, coughing, sleep apnea, acid reflux, vocal fry, Mariah and more in this stellar two-parter. Come back next week when we answer so many burning questions.

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PART 2:

Pull up a seat for singing techniques, baby talk, baritones, whistle notes, stroke recovery, vibrato, Julie Andrews, crying jags, throat singing, accents and much more with your new favorite Laryngologist, Dr. Ronda Alexander. We just… we love her so much. 

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A donation went to the Laryngology Education Foundation Health Equity Grant via this link


Links to things we discussed:

PART 1:

Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dr. Alexander’s bio

Dr. Ronda Alexander Named Among Exceptional Women in Medicine

Voice Lift before and after videos

Singers with the highest vocal ranges

Brazilian singer Georgia Brown singing the G10 note

Acoustic Signature of a Tea Kettle

Fergie Sings The Star-Spangled Banner (With Transcription!)

Laryngomalacia in kids 

Kyle Sleeper

Can a human produce a sound outside the human audible range?

Mothers Consistently Alter Their Unique Vocal Fingerprints When Communicating with Infants

Austin Butler roasted for lingering King voice

Deep breathing and stress: Breathing control center neurons that promote arousal in mice

This Is the Fastest Way to Calm Down

2019 Frontiers in Psychology paper: Hypothesis: Pulmonary Afferent Activity Patterns During Slow, Deep Breathing Contribute to the Neural Induction of Physiological Relaxation

Vocal Feminization for Transgender Women: Current Strategies and Patient Perspectives

“Castrato” singers

Trans resources for voice exercises and alteration 

Eva App

Demo of Eva

The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation

CDC info on HPV vaccines

HPV factoids via Wikipedia

Minnie Riperton, “Lovin’ You”

PART 2:

My brother-in-law Kyle Sleeper

Tim Storms: the lowest of the voices

Tim Storms singing “Lonesome Road”

Interview with Tim Storms

Julie Andres on her voice loss

Perception in Black and White: Effects of Intonational Variables and Filtering Conditions on Sociolinguistic Judgments With Implications for ASR

Laryngeal electromyography

Mariah Carey singing “Emotions” at the 1991 VMA’s

Dolphin reacts to Mariah Carey singing to it

Highest note ever, Georgia Brown’s G10

Variation in global and intonational pitch settings among black and white speakers of Southern American English

Do African Americans really have lower voices? Pitch, gender and ethnicity in Memphis

Andrews sues over lost voice

Music Note Frequency Chart

Laryngeal Involvement in Connective Tissue Disorders. Is it Important for Patient Management?

Mongolian art of singing: Khoomei

Mongolian Throat Singing With My Daughter

Overtone focusing in biphonic tuvan throat singing

Tuvan Throat Singing | Alash | TEDxBaltimore

Throat Singing: A unique vocalization from three cultures

Alaskan Native Americans: Inuit Throat Singing

Noise Chart Poster: how loud are really loud things?

Loudest Burp: 112dB


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Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media, and Mark David Christenson

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Website by Kelly R. Dwyer

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