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Sunday, March 10 is our next NATS Chat with Ian Howell at 6:00 PST/9:00 EST! The interactive NATS Chats allow you to ask questions of the guest in real-time! Please join us! Topic: “The Special Psychoacoustics of the Singing Voice”
Singing is, at its core, and aural art form. Like our other senses, our sense of hearing limits and colors our experience of reality. Yet much of the material we use to explain how the singing voice behaves acoustically relies on computer measurements. These measurements tell us something true about the sound wave in the air, but miss qualitative aspects of timbre dependably imparted by the ear. By coming to understand the way the ear behaves, we can ask how one might possibly perceive a singing voice. This is another way of asking what sounds the human voice is capable of making. NATS Chats are generously sponsored by Inside View Press! You do NOT need to be a NATS member to join the webinar. "Virtual" seating is limited so register at the link …

Registration will be open from January 1-February 9th for our 2019 Great Lakes Regional Student Auditions.  They will take place on Saturday March 2nd at Western Michigan University. You can register on the NATS.org website under "Member Home." Contact Regional Governor David Mannell with any questions.
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I wanted to link you all to an article in the Fall 2018 Inter Nos newsletter which highlights some of the benefits of membership.  This can be a great reminder for long-standing members and for new members alike.  It's also a great reminder that we are an organization run almost entirely by volunteers-- so we build the community that we want to have.