Building a Voice

Sound, Surface, Skin

Zeynep Bulut

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Goldsmith's Press
08 April 2025

Music

On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.

On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.

How do we build a voice, instead of giving a voice to something or someone, or being given a voice? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves as both boundary and contact? What does such a voice capacitate in times of crises and uncertainties?

In Building a Voice- Sound, Surface, Skin, Zeynep Bulut explores these questions. She examines multi-sensory and collective forms of voice making in experimental music, sound, and media art in conversation with the use of voice in creative interventions for environmental crisis, experiences of voice hearing, and digital technologies of artificial and tactile speech. Through this conversation, she points to two key terms- plasticity of voice, and non-dialogue. Plasticity of voice indicates both malleable and resistant aspects of voice. Non-dialogue refers to cross-sensory, non-dyadic, and distributed modes of interaction across both humans and nonhumans. The plasticity of voice and non-dialogue, Bulut argues, encourages us to think about voice in the form of a skin, a surface that both connects and differentiates, without being limited to human body or labels of verbal language.

Building a voice as skin, in effect, prompts us to reflect on both individual and collective, concrete and emergent, and uncertain and shared aspects of voice and speech, as well as to pace and revisit our conceptions of communication, intersubjectivity, connectivity, understanding and empathy.

By: Zeynep Bulut
Imprint: Goldsmith's Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781913380885
ISBN 10: 1913380882
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Zeynep Bulut is a Lecturer in Music at Queen's University Belfast. She is project lead for Music, Arts, Health, and Environment, and for the collaborative research initiative ""Map A Voice,"" devised in collaboration with King's College London's Department of Music and Department of Media and Computing & Rapid-Mix at Goldsmiths, University of London, supported by the Cultural Institute at King's as part of the Early Career Researchers scheme. She has also exhibited sound works, composed, and performed vocal pieces for concert, video, and theater, and released two singles. Her composer profile has been featured by British Music Collection. She is a certified practitioner of Deep Listening.

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