Research interests: physiology and acoustics of vocal technique and voice rehabilitation.
Accepting mentees: Yes (3)
Biography
Mathias Aaen, PhD, holds an Honorary Research position at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) and is VP of Research & Collaboration at Complete Vocal Institute (CVI). His research centres on the physiology and acoustics of vocal technique and voice rehabilitation. Mathias did his PostDoc at NUH and CVI, got his PhD, MA CC, and BA MMC from Aarhus University, Denmark and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Mathias is co-recipient of a grant from the Danish Innovation Foundation focused on the development of new interventions for rehabilitation of MTD using CVT.
He has authored and co-authored numerous publications in Journal of Voice along with Cathrine Sadolin and Dr. Julian McGlashan. Mathias is the recipient of multiple honorary awards, including the Augustinus Foundation Award and JORCK’s research award. As a singer, Mathias has performed on Danish national television, sung on multiple records, and toured in Europe and in the US. As an Authorised CVT Teacher, he has taught voice professionals across Europe, Asia, and the US.
Qualifications
PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark
MA CC, Aarhus University, Denmark
BA MMC from Aarhus University, Denmark
Publications
Extreme Vocals—A Retrospective Longitudinal study of Vocal Health in 20 Professional Singers Performing and Teaching Rough Vocal Effects
Journal of Voice 2024-11 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.05.002 Contributors: Mathias Aaen; Cathrine Sadolin; Anna White; Reza Nouraei; Julian McGlashan
Deconstructing Timbre into 5 Physiological Parameters: Vocal Mode, Amount of Metal, Degree of Density, Size of Larynx, and Sound Coloring
Journal of Voice 2024-05 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2021.11.013 Contributors: Mathias Aaen; Julian McGlashan; Noor Christoph; Cathrine Sadolin
Extreme Vocal Effects Distortion, Growl, Grunt, Rattle, and Creaking as Measured by Electroglottography and Acoustics in 32 Healthy Professional Singers
Journal of Voice 2024-05 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2021.11.010 Contributors: Mathias Aaen; Julian McGlashan; Noor Christoph; Cathrine Sadolin
Towards Improved Auditory-Perceptual Assessment of Timbres: Comparing Accuracy and Reliability of Four Deconstructed Timbre Assessment Models
Journal of Voice 2024-05 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.03.039 Contributors: Mathias Aaen; Cathrine Sadolin
Towards Automated Vocal Mode Classification in Healthy Singing Voice—An XGBoost Decision Tree-Based Machine Learning Classifier
Journal of Voice 2023-11 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2023.09.006 Contributors: Jeroen Sol; Mathias Aaen; Cathrine Sadolin; Louis ten Bosch
Complete Vocal Technique-Voice Therapy as a Novel Intervention for Rehabilitation of Laryngeal-Phonatory Dysfunction in Acquired Brain Injury Patients—An Exploratory Retrospective Study
Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 2023-10-12 | Journal article DOI: 10.1044/2023_PERSP-23-00003 Contributors: Mathias Aaen; Alies Rose; Noor Christoph; Cathrine Sadolin; Julian McGlashan
Laryngostroboscopic Exploration of Rough Vocal Effects in Singing and their Statistical Recognizability: An Anatomical and Physiological Description and Visual Recognizability Study of Distortion, Growl, Rattle, and Grunt using laryngostroboscopic Imaging and Panel Assessment
Journal of Voice 2020-01 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2017.12.020 Contributors: Mathias Aaen; Julian McGlashan; Cathrine Sadolin
Assessing and Quantifying Air Added to the Voice by Means of Laryngostroboscopic Imaging, EGG, and Acoustics in Vocally Trained Subjects
Journal of Voice 2019 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2019.09.001 EID: 2-s2.0-85073559911 Contributors: Aaen, M.; McGlashan, J.; Thu, K.T.; Sadolin, C.
Investigating Laryngeal “Tilt” on Same-pitch Phonation—Preliminary Findings of Vocal Mode Metal and Density Parameters as Alternatives to Cricothyroid-Thyroarytenoid “Mix”
Journal of Voice 2019-09 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.02.023 Contributors: Mathias Aaen; Julian McGlashan; Cathrine Sadolin
Curbing—The Metallic Mode In-between
Journal of Voice 2017-09 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2017.01.010 Part of ISSN: 0892-1997 Mathias Aaen
Overdrive and Edge as Refiners of “Belting”?
Journal of Voice 2017-05 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2016.09.006 Part of ISSN: 0892-1997 Mathias Aaen