The Concert and the Throats in Incredible Close-Ups: The Vacations and Daily Life of a Voice Doctor – Tamás Hacki, MTA External Member Chair Bearer
Many people probably remember the quirky young man who won the 1962 Who Knows Prize? competition. Well, this young man has had a successful research career in the decades since, and sixty years after the milestone, he was elected as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Tamas Haacki was born in 1944 in Budapest. His academic title is Dr. middle. Professor’s entitlement. He is a volunteer physician in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Semmelweis University (SE) and Emeritus Professor at the University of Regensburg (University of Regensburg). His narrow specialties are otolaryngology, audiology and pediatric audiology.
Performance Taste:
It doesn’t hurt to know that Tamás Hacki belongs to the Department of Technical Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, so no one should be surprised if he designs his vocal cords with cubes attached to springs.
In contrast, with some basic knowledge of physics, anyone can quickly understand why (and how) sounds come out of our mouths.
All this can be followed by live-moving (!!) endoscopic (!!!!) recordings of the human larynx (!) inserted through the nose. Anyone who looks at these conditions will think of this only when he hears that “everyone has a singer.”
In addition to showing speech pathologists basic tools (that is, experts in the various elements of human voice formation), we can learn very interesting things about, for example, what a baby’s crying, a woman’s crying, and the tuning of an orchestra have in common. .
Towards the end of the show, Tamás Hacki takes a (not) surprising turn into the cultural history of the whistle, showcasing whistling languages, and we can even see an MRI image of his oral cavity while whistling. Thus, if someone wants to follow in the footsteps of the master in the search for talents, then it is worth starting preparation here.
The show ends with the recording of a joint performance with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, and a storm of applause after and instead of the whistle concert in the MTA Concert Hall.
Video recording of the chair stand is available along with a short summary and photo gallery On the mta.hu page here:
