Research

Dr. Reuben Scott Walker is involved in several research projects at the Studio for Voice Research at the Dresden University of Music and is a doctoral candidate (Dr. rer. medic.) at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

His articles on longitudinal vocal sound development, analysis of high-speed video endoscopy, and aerosol emissions during singing have been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, the Journal of Voice, and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Born in the United States, he completed his vocal studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Doctor of Music, Master of Music). Prior to that, he earned his Bachelor of Music concurrently with his Bachelor of Science in Physics at Western Washington University.

Papers and Presentations

• Walker, Reuben, Mario Fleischer, Johan Sundberg, and Dirk Mürbe. “Male and Female Voices
  Show Differences in Spectral Development Over Four Years of Conservatory Training.”
  Paper presented at: Pan European Vocal Conference. 2024 September 4-7th. Santander, Spain.

• Walker, Reuben, Mario Fleischer, Marie Bieber and Dirk Mürbe. “Development of Vocal
  Vibrato Measures During Conservatory Training – A Longitudinal Retrospective Study”
  Paper presented at: Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference. 2023 June 14-16th. Stockholm, Sweden.

• Mario Fleischer, Reuben S. Walker and Dirk Mürbe. “Morphometric Details of the Vocal Tract –
  How do they determine the transfer function?” Paper presented at: Deutsche
  Gesellschaft für Pädaulogie und Phoniatrie Conference. 2023 28th Sept.- 1st Oct. Cologne,
  Germany.

• Fleischer, Mario, Lukas Chumann, Anne Hartmann, Reuben Scott Walker, Liliana Ifrim,
  Dorothea von Zadow, Jonas Lüske, Joachim Seybold, Martin Kriegel, and Dirk Mürbe.
  “Pre-adolescent children exhibit lower volume emissions than adults for breathing,
  speaking, singing and shouting.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2021).

• Patel, Rita R, Reuben Walker, and Michael Doellinger. “Oscillatory onset and offset in young
  vocally healthy adults across various measurement methods.” Journal of Voice (2017).

• Patel, Rita R., Reuben Walker, and Preeti M. Sivasankar. “Spatiotemporal Quantification of
  Vocal Fold Vibration after Exposure to Superficial Laryngeal Dehydration: A
  Preliminary Study.” Journal of Voice (2015).

• Patel, Rita R and Reuben Walker. Comparison of Voice Onset and Offset Methods Using High-
  Speed Videoendoscopy. Paper presented at: The Voice Foundation’s 44th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice. 2015 May 26-31st. Philadelphia, PA.

• Patel, Rita R, Reuben Walker, and Preeti M. Sivasankar. Does Vibratory Motion Change
  Following Exposure to Low Humidity Challenge? A Multidimensional Voice
  Measurements Study. Poster Session presented at: The Voice Foundation’s 44th Annual
  Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice. 2015 May 26-31st. Philadelphia, PA.

• Walker, Reuben. Childhood and Adolescent Singing: An Overview of Physiological and
  Cognitive Development. New Voice Educators Symposium. Indiana University, 2015.