Making (Sound) Waves: Exploring vocal authenticity James Cave, Hasmik Gasparyan and Ben Gibb-Reid
Event details
Combining speaking/singing performance, documentary footage of singing groups in Middlesbrough and live analysis of vocal recordings, University of York researchers demonstrate the benefits of community singing and acting.
Why not come along and take part in this interactive session and find out how these activities improve wellbeing for vulnerable groups, restoring a connection to the voice.
This event is based on the interdisciplinary project ‘Exploring Vocal Authenticity through Documentary Film’ funded by YorVoice/SPARKS.
About the speakers
James Cave is a Lecturer in Culture and Organisation at University of York. Also a composer and singer, James has toured internationally with York Minster choir and the Gavin Bryars Ensemble. His music has been released by Regent Records and Ceretto.
Dr Hasmik Gasparyan is an independent filmmaker and a Lecturer in Directing for Film and Television, University of York. Her research focuses on documentary film, aesthetics of film sound and representation of conflict in cinema by post-soviet women filmmakers. Documentary films directed by Hasmik Gasparyan include 'Armenian Woman with a Movie Camera' (2011), 'Narara and Kiko' (2018), 'My Voice Journey' (2025).
Dr Ben Gibb-Reid is a Lecturer with the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York whose work spans forensic phonetics and language variation and change. His research projects include investigating discourse markers (e.g. 'like, yeah, just'), attitudes to language variation in education and assessing the ability of deepfake voice synthesis methods.
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