How can a straw make us better singers? Oren Boder is an award winning singing teacher, voice researcher, entrepreneur, and inventor of the SOVT Singing Straw. Oren joins Alexa this week on Singing Teachers’ Talk to tell us all about what SOVT is, how it works, and how it can help us as singing teachers. 

KEY MOMENTS

‘It’s like a Swiss army knife of techniques’ 

‘We never want to train in the extreme because we don’t want to be under loading or overloading our voice’

‘We can get a minimum of 40 resistance configurations from one device, it can be infinite’

‘The products we have designed have been designed by an aerospace engineer’ 

RELEVANT LINKS & MENTIONS

Singing Through A Straw Can Make You An Awesome Singer by Oren Boder

Singing Teachers Talk: Episode 30 - Clearing the Brain Fog with John Henny: Covid-19, Acoustics, Passive Income & The Teaching Triangle

Balloon Activity for Maximum Threshold Pressure (MPT) (shared by Chris Johnson with credit to Kerrie Obert)

ABOUT THE GUEST 

Oren is an award winning singing teacher, voice researcher, entrepreneur, and inventor of the SOVT Singing Straw, and is proudly supported by both the Prince’s Trust and Virgin Startup. Oren believes in enriching lives through the arts, and through the pursuit of meaningful science, develops innovative tools and resources to help singers enhance and improve their vocal development, health, and wellbeing, whilst also having an impact on the universe.

Oren's journey started at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he trained in singing and vocal technique, as well as studying internationally in Holland in collaboration with the London College of Music, and then with New York Vocal Coaching (NYVC). Oren also holds a degree in Psychology. His current pedagogical focus is on researching and developing vocal development tools and techniques that involve singing through straws, using state of the art computer simulations to explore the interactions of airflow and air pressures of different straw types and their effects on the voice.

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