sculpting the voice: body – science – art

FEBRUARY 9, 2026 > 1 PM I ROOM 1.06

Sculpting the Voice: Body – Science – Art
Lecture & Hands-on Workshop with Evangelos Angelakis (CAPHE Project)

Master in Sculpture – practices of research in sculpture

Lecture
How is the human voice shaped by the body — and how can artists, researchers, and educators hear, see, and touch this process? In this special 2-hour lecture, Evangelos Angelakis introduces students to the voice as a multidimensional phenomenon, bridging anatomy and physiology, acoustics, cognition, pedagogy, and artistic practice.

Drawing from contemporary voice research and artistic experience, the lecture explores how sound emerges from physical structures, how perception shapes vocal control, and how technology allows us to better understand the living instrument we carry within us.

Workshop 
Following the lecture, students are invited to participate in an intensive 3-hour experimental workshop, where theory becomes material. Working with clay and/or 3D-printed vocal tract models, participants will build physical resonators and explore how shape, material, and space transform sound. Using various sound sources, and the human body itself — the workshop avoids abstraction and focuses on direct sonic experimentation. 

The workshop also introduces students to real vocal fold excitation, including prerecorded electroglottographic (EGG) signals extracted from actual voices. Participants will hear the original voice sound, its corresponding EGG waveform, and then feed these signals into their handmade vocal tract models, observing how resonance emerges from structure. This process offers a rare opportunity to experience voice as sculpture, instrument, and scientific object at the same time, encouraging cross-disciplinary thinking between visual arts, music, performance, and research.

About the Lecturer
Evangelos Angelakis is an opera singer, voice teacher, and Postdoc voice researcher at the Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology of NKUA, Greece. Currently participating in the Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment (CAPHE) project, which supports interdisciplinary artistic and pedagogical mobility across multiple countries. He holds a PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is an honors graduate of the Master’s Program Musicology – Music Technology. His work combines professional operatic performance, vocal pedagogy, and scientific research on voice anatomy, acoustics, cognition, and sensor-based analysis. He is the creator of the NKUA educational program “The Voice in Singing”, a founding member of the Hellenic Voice Teachers Association, and an active researcher whose work has been presented internationally.