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Voice as skin: A sensory interface connecting us in uncertain times.
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Building a Voice

Sound, Surface, Skin

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    7 April 2025

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Summary

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 an…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781913380885
ISBN-10:1913380882
Author:Zeynep Bulut
Publisher:Goldsmith's Press
Imprint:Goldsmith's Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:7 April 2025
Weight:567g
Dimensions:152mm x 229mm
Series:Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series
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Critics Review

“Building a Voice is powerful and compelling and an important contribution to voice studies and sound studies more broadly..” - Marina Peterson, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin”This impressive book presents a radically new and at times breathtaking conception of vocality, one that transcends all borders separating the material from the performative, the audible from the tactile, the literal from the metaphorical, the human from the nonhuman.” - Martin Daughtry, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies, New York University”A highly original approach that immediately intrigues the reader.” - Holger Schulze, Professor of Musicology, University of Copenhagen

About The Author

Zeynep Bulut

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. 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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