Supporting Singers with Tangible and Visual Feedback

Most of musicians can control their performance by relying on different sensorial modalities that complement the auditory cue. Vision, in particular, offers most instrumentalists an essential support: it helps them developing techniques, identifying errors, correcting expressiveness, and memorise complex passages. By contrast, when performing a piece, singers can almost exclusively rely on the auditory feedback coming from their voice to adjust their singing. This paper frames this issue and proposes possible alternatives to improve singers' awareness by adding visual and tangible feedback to their performance.