Building a Voice
Sound, Surface, Skin
$114.92
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2025
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 |
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| 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
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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