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Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology book cover

1st Edition

Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology

By Miriama Young Copyright 2015
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body. From the phonautograph to magnetic tape and now to digital sampling, Miriama Young visits particular musical and literary works that define a... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Electric voice, plastic body: vocal materiality and cultural consumption; Voice I Trevor Wishart; Cut and splice: vocal cuts and loops, dissected and aberrant bodies; Voice II Katharine Norman; Machine as voice, voice as machine; Voice III Paul Lansky; Scratch and mix: sampling the human voice in the [metaphorical] phonograph; Voice IV Eduardo Reck Miranda; Quiet interiors: the voice and pod listening; Voice V Bora Yoon; Concluding remarks; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Miriama Young is a writer, sound artist and composer. Originally from New Zealand, she gained her PhD from Princeton (2007) on a Fulbright award. She writes music for film, dance, radio, live electronics and fixed media, voices and instruments. She is a Lecturer in Sonic Arts and Music Composition at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

"Miriama Young has produced an excellent piece of work. The subject, the voice and recording technology and its use in music and musical contexts is relatively new, or is at least coincident with the advent of editable recording technology since the war. The non-linear approach that Miriama takes, partly narrative, partly anecdotal and partly historical, works particularly well with this subject. I also especially like the way she includes discussions of music from popular culture, blurring the boundaries between categories and genres."

- Paul Lansky, Princeton University, USA

"... it is definitely a monograph that invites the reader to come back to again and again, to discover and re-discover more voices, ideas, narratives, discussions, music, sounds, and valuable source materials. It is an amazing work which you do not have to agree with all the different voives in order to participate."

- Katerina Tzedaki, Technological Educational Institute of Crete

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