By Associate Professor John Robert Smith

Journal articles

Wolfe J; Boutin H; Hanna N; Smith J, 2024, 'What Might the Trombone Teach Us About the Singing Voice?—A Tutorial Review', Journal of Voice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.02.006

Almeida A; Li W; Schubert E; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2023, 'Expressive goals for performing musicians: The case of clarinetists', Musicae Scientiae, 27, pp. 655 - 671, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10298649221122155

Almeida A; Li W; Schubert E; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2023, 'Recording and analysing physical control variables used in clarinet playing: A musical instrument performance capture and analysis toolbox (MIPCAT)', Frontiers in Signal Processing, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2023.1089366

Garnier M; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2022, 'Lip hyper-articulation in loud voice: Effect on resonance-harmonic proximity', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, pp. 3695 - 3705, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0016595

Jeanneteau M; Hanna N; Almeida A; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2022, 'Using visual feedback to tune the second vocal tract resonance for singing in the high soprano range', Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 47, pp. 25 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14015439.2020.1834612

Boutin H; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2020, ''Warming up' a wind instrument: The time-dependent effects of exhaled air on the resonances of a trombone', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, pp. 1817 - 1823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0002109

Boutin H; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2020, 'Trombone lip mechanics with inertive and compliant loads ("lipping up and down")', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, pp. 4133 - 4144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0001466

Li W; Goios Borges De Almeida A; Inwood L; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2019, 'Science of articulation: some recent scientific studies of clarinet tonguing', Clarinet & Saxophone, 43, pp. 32 - 35

Hanna NN; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2018, 'How the acoustic resonances of the subglottal tract affect the impedance spectrum measured through the lips', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, pp. 2639 - 2650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5033330

Almeida A; Li W; Smith JR; Wolfe J, 2017, 'The mechanism producing initial transients on the clarinet', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142, pp. 3376 - 3386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5014036

Almeida A; Schubert E; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2017, 'Brightness scaling of periodic tones', Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 79, pp. 1892 - 1896, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1394-6

Wade L; Hanna N; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2017, 'The role of vocal tract and subglottal resonances in producing vocal instabilities', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, pp. 1546 - 1559, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4976954

Li W; Almeida A; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2016, 'The effect of blowing pressure, lip force and tonguing on transients: A study using a clarinet-playing machine', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140, pp. 1089 - 1100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4960594

Hanna NN; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2016, 'Frequencies, bandwidths and magnitudes of vocal tract and surrounding tissue resonances, measured through the lips during phonation', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139, pp. 2924 - 2936, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4948754

Wolfe J; Tze Wei Chu D; Chen JM; Smith J, 2016, 'An Experimentally Measured Source–Filter Model: Glottal Flow, Vocal Tract Gain and Output Sound from a Physical Model', Acoustics Australia, 44, pp. 187 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40857-016-0046-7

Li W; Almeida A; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2016, 'How clarinettists articulate: The effect of blowing pressure and tonguing on initial and final transients', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139, pp. 825 - 838, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4941660

Boutin H; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2015, 'Laryngeal flow due to longitudinal sweeping motion of the vocal folds and its contribution to auto-oscillation(L)', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, pp. 146 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4922470

Titze IR; Baken RJ; Bozeman KW; Granqvist S; Henrich N; Herbst CT; Howard DM; Hunter EJ; Kaelin D; Kent RD; Kreiman J; Kob M; Löfqvist A; McCoy S; Miller DG; Noé H; Scherer RC; Smith JR; Story BH; Švec JG; Ternström S; Wolfe J, 2015, 'Toward a consensus on symbolic notation of harmonics, resonances, and formants in vocalization', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, pp. 3005 - 3007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4919349

Boutin H; Fletcher N; Smith ; Wolfe JA, 2015, 'Relationships between pressure, flow, lip motion, and upstream and downstream impedances for the trombone', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, pp. 1195 - 1209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4908236

Li W; Chen J-M; Wolfe J; Smith JR, 2015, 'Effect of Vocal Tract Resonances on the Sound Spectrum of the Saxophone', Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 101, pp. 270 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.3813/AAA.918825

Wolfe J; Fletcher NH; smith J, 2015, 'The Interactions Between Wind Instruments and their Players', Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 101, pp. 211 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.3813/AAA.918820

Boutin H; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2014, 'Infrasound sensitivity and harmonic distortion', Acoustics Australia, 42, pp. 137 - 137

Chen JM; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2014, 'The effect of nearby timpani strokes on horn playing', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135, pp. 472 - 478, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4829533

Henrich Bernardoni N; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2014, 'Vocal tract resonances in singing: Variation with laryngeal mechanism for male operatic singers in chest and falsetto registers', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135, pp. 491 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4836255

Boutin H; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2014, 'Producing undistorted acoustic sine waves', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135, pp. 1665 - 1667, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4868374

Chen J-M; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2013, 'Do trumpeters tune resonances of their vocal tract?', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133, pp. 3548 - 3548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4806434

Hanna NN; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2013, 'Measurements of the aero-acoustic properties of the vocal folds and vocal tract by broad and narrow band probes during phonation into controlled acoustic loads', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133, pp. 3523 - 3523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4806333

Ghonim A; Lim J; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2013, 'The division of the perceptual vowel plane for different accents of English and the characteristic separation required to distinguish vowels', Acoustics Australia, 41, pp. 160 - 164

Almeida A; George D; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2013, 'The clarinet: How blowing pressure, lip force, lip position and reed “hardness” affect pitch, sound level, and spectrum', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, pp. 2247 - 2247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4816538

Smith J; Henrich N; Garnier M; Wolfe J, 2011, 'The acoustics of registers and resonances in singing', Australian Acoustical SocietyConference 2011, Acoustics 2011: Breaking New Ground, pp. 133 - 138

Wolfe JA; Hatsidimitris G; Smith JR, 2011, 'Physclips: A multimedia, multi-level introduction to mechanics, waves and sound', Acoustics Australia, 39, pp. 119 - 120

Chen JM; Smith JR; Wolfe JA, 2011, 'Saxophonists tune vocal tract resonances in advanced performance techniques', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129, pp. 415 - 426, http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/SaxJASA.pdf

Henrich N; Smith JR; Wolfe JA, 2011, 'Vocal tract resonances in singing: strategies used by sopranos, altos, tenors, and baritones', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129, pp. 1024 - 1035, http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/SATB.pdf

Burgess M; Schubert E; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2010, 'Acoustics Australia: From the editors', Acoustics Australia, 38, pp. 5

Burgess M; Schubert E; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2010, 'Untitled', ACOUSTICS AUSTRALIA, 38, pp. 5 - 5, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000277368200002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Swerdlin Y; Smith JR; Wolfe JA, 2010, 'The effect of whisper and creak vocal mechanisms on vocal tract resonances', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127, pp. 2590 - 2598, http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/whisper.pdf

Garnier M; Henrich N; Smith JR; Wolfe JA, 2010, 'Vocal tract adjustments in the high soprano range', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127, pp. 3771 - 3780, http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/highsoprano.pdf

Hatsidimitris G; Wolfe J; Smith J, 2009, 'Physclips: Multi-level multimedia resources', ASCILITE 2009 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, pp. 444 - 446

Chen JM; Smith JR; Wolfe JA, 2009, 'Pitch bending and glissandi on the clarinet: Roles of the vocal tract and partial tone hole closure', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126, pp. 1511 - 1520, http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/ChenetalJASA09.pdf

Chen JM; Smith JR; Wolfe JA, 2009, 'Saxophone acoustics: Introducing a compendium of impedance and sound spectra', Acoustics Australia, 37, pp. 18 - 23, http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/ChenetalAA.pdf

Almeida A; Chow R; Smith JR; Wolfe JA, 2009, 'The kinetics and acoustics of fingering and note transitions on the flute', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126, pp. 1521 - 1529, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3179674

Wolfe JA; Garnier M; Smith JR, 2009, 'Vocal tract resonances in speech, singing and playing musical instruments', HFSP Journal, 3, pp. 6 - 23, http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/WolfeGarnierSmith.pdf

Smith JR; Wolfe JA, 2009, 'Vowel-pitch matching in Wagner`s operas: Implications for intelligibility and ease of singing', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, pp. EL196 - EL201, http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/Wagner.pdf

Kulik Y; Botros A; Smith J, 2008, 'Automated fingering services for woodwinds: development of a "virtual clarinet"', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, pp. 3662 - 3662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2934983

Chen J-M; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2008, 'How to play the first bar of Rhapsody in Blue', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, pp. 3123 - 3123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2933048

Swerdlin Y; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2008, 'How whisper and croak phonation affect vocal tract resonances', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, pp. 3242 - 3242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2933494

Dickens P; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2008, 'Improved precision in acoustic impedance measurements by using calibration loads without resonances', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, pp. 3015 - 3015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2932619

Smith J; Rey G; Wolfe J, 2008, 'Relationships among subjective assessments and measured physical properties in the didjeridu', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, pp. 3120 - 3120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2933034

Henrich N; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2008, 'Resonance strategies and glottal behaviour in the two main laryngeal mechanisms for professional operatic singers', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, pp. 3243 - 3243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2933498

Garnier M; Henrich N; Smith J; Wolfe J, 2008, 'Sopranos' secondo passagio: a resonance adjustment and/or a laryngeal transition to the whistle voice', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, pp. 3243 - 3243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2933501

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