V01CE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media

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V01CE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media

Norie Neumark, - Personal Name; Ross, Gibson, - Personal Name; Theo van Leeuwen, - Personal Name;

Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.

Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, between the uniqueness of an individual voice and the social and cultural forces that shape it. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on these topics from history, philosophy, cultural theory, film, dance, poetry, media arts, and computer games. Many chapters demonstrate Lewis Mumford's idea of the “cultural preparation” that precedes technological innovation—that socially important new technologies are foreshadowed in philosophy, the arts, and everyday pastimes. Chapters cover such technologies as voice mail, podcasting, and digital approximations of the human voice. A number of authors explore the performance, performativity, and authenticity [(or 'authenticity effect') of voice in dance, poetry, film, and media arts]; while others examine more immaterial concerns—the voice's often-invoked magical powers, the ghostliness of disembodied voices, and posthuman vocalization. [The chapters evoke an often paradoxical reassertion of the human in the use of voice in mainstream media including recorded music, films, and computer games.

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Mark Amerika, Isabelle Arvers, Giselle Beiguelman, Philip Brophy, Ross Gibson, Brandon LaBelle, Thomas Levin, Helen Macallan, Virginia Madsen, Meredith Morse, Norie Neumark, Andrew Plain, John Potts, Theresa M. Senft, Nermin Saybasili, Amanda Stewart, Axel Stockburger, Michael Taussig, Martin Thomas, Theo van Leeuwen, Mark Wood

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Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press., 2010
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780262289696
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Content Type: text
Media Type: computer
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Subject(s): Arts
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Statement of Responsibility: Edited by: Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson, Theo van Leeuwen

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Cataloger: Kholif Basri
Source: https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/2879/V01CEVocal-Aesthetics-in-Digital-Arts-and-Media
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262013901.001.0001
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Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry. Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have prov

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