Category: Contemporary Issues in Sound Art

I have been looking for a way to articulate my thoughts process for the essay. The way I have been thinking about it is in two main chapters: electronic glitch music , ‘post-digital’ and vocal performance (vocal processing, vocal cloning) from a cyberfeminist perspective? I am thinking of glitch music as failure and refusal (glitch… Continue reading Questions?

Isn’t a philosopher someone who always hears (and who hears everything), not who cannot listen, or who, more precisely, neutralizes listening within himself, so that he can philosophize? (p.1) Stravinsky – heard a mute man and tried recreating the sounds he made orchestrally in his compositions [listening] is a question of going back to, of… Continue reading Listening, Jean-Luc Nancy

pheno-song = representation, expression; smothering of the signifier under the signified geno-song = the ‘diction’ of language; culmination of production where music actually works on language; The grain is the body in the singing voice, in the writing hand, in the performing limb. The grain of the voice is not – or not only –… Continue reading The Grain of the Voice, Ronald Barthes

‘No abyss is as familiar as one’s mouth; the unheimlich mouth. An internalized abyss which we presume to control, but which always exceeds such tidy precepts. The mouth is the meeting place of the sacred and the profane; sacred texts are salivated by the mouth’s viscosity; the Word is born in a cavity that tears,… Continue reading Sonic somatic: performances of the unsound body

https://holly.plus/ Holly+ – deepfake version of the artists, allows people to use her voice. “Spem In Alium” by Thomas Tallis – 40 voices- walking around a u -shape? early surround sound experience? timbre transfer? DDSP? https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ddsp-vst Identity play? ‘what would it mean to allow a stranger as me? through me?’

The term ‘post-digital’ was introduced by Kim Cascone in 2000 in the essay The Aesthetics of Failure: “Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music. [2] The article links the origins of glitch music to the italian Futurists and later composers such as John Cage and Stravinsky. Arseny Avraamov – Symphony of Sirens – uses city sounds… Continue reading Glitch/Post-digital

Source: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_—-a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the….pdf ‘The silicon chip is a surface for writing; it is etched in molecular scales disturbed only by atomic noise, the ultimate interference for nuclear scores.’ (11) Miniaturization has turned out to be about power; small is not so much beautiful aspreeminently dangerous, as in cruise missiles. Our best machines are made of sunshine.… Continue reading A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway

Should I stick with the voice? What is it that I’m trying to say about the voice? What case study can I use? How can I relate it to current issues? Or current interests? How would I make use of it in my practice? Affections volatiles – is what my next project is gonna be… Continue reading Essay Outline