How do pansori singers produce the husky sori seong vocal quality?

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In the tradition of pansori, the husky vocal quality known as sori seong is produced by singers through a specific physical technique: they tense their vocal cords while simultaneously pushing the diaphragm upward.1

This technique is primarily utilized in the lower and middle registers of the singer's range, which typically spans about two and a half octaves. Because maintaining this specific husky quality becomes difficult in higher registers, performers shift to falsetto techniques to project those higher pitches.1