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Physics points the way to COVID-safe singing

06 Dec 2021 Margaret Harris
A singer exhaling
Sing out: A sequence of infrared images taken as a mezzosoprano sings the Armenian lullaby 'Oror'. The warm exhaled carbon dioxide emanating from the singer travels close to 1 m within a few seconds. The scale bar represents 30 cm. (Courtesy: Philippe Bourrianne et al., 'Tracking the air exhaled by an opera singer', Phys. Rev. Fluids 6 110503, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.110503)
“Music has been very disrupted due to the pandemic.” When Philippe Bourrianne spoke these words

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