In this seminar, Zeynep Bulut will talk about multi and cross-sensory interactions between voice and environment, drawing on examples in sound and media art. She will suggest considering a voice which is not limited to human body or mediums of verbal language. Employing her notion of “voice as skin,” that is, voice as a multi-sensory interface which both connects and differentiates the bodies, she will discuss how a voice is not pre-determined or fixed but made individually and collectively.
Zeynep Bulut is a Lecturer in Music at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests include voice and sound studies, experimental music, sound and media art, technologies of hearing and speech, voice and environment, and music and medicine. She is currently completing her first manuscript, titled, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin. Her articles have appeared in various volumes and journals including Perspectives of New Music, Postmodern Culture, and Music and Politics. Alongside her scholarly work, she has also exhibited sound works, composed and performed vocal pieces for concert, video and theatre, and released two singles. Her composer profile has been featured by British Music Collection. She is sound review editor for Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and project lead for the collaborative research initiative “Map A Voice.” https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/zeynep-bulut
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