Research Catalog

Title

Electrified voices : medial, socio-historical and cultural aspects of voice transfer / Dmitri Zakharine, Nils Meise (eds.).

Publication

Göttingen : V&R Unipress, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zakharine, Dmitri
• Meise, Nils
• Universität Konstanz.

Description

416 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Medial, socio-historical and cultural aspects of voice transfer

Subject

• Sound > Recording and reproducing > Congresses
• Voice culture > Congresses
• Electronic voice phenomenon > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of a cenference held at Konstanz University in June 16-18, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English, with one contribution in German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface: Electrified voices. Medial, socio-historical and cultural aspects of voice transfer / Dmitri Zakharine -- Introduction: Voice-emotion-personality / Walter Sendlmeier -- Sound spheres and the human voice / David Sonnenschein -- Voices in the soundscape: from cellphones to soundscape composition / Barry Truax -- About the generation of affects in serial music: on Luciano Berio's composition "Thema. Omaggio a Joyce" (1958) / Friederike Wissmann -- Evaporate music 1: revoicing and gendered vocalization / Philip Brophy -- The intimate singing voice: auditory spatial perception and emotion in pop recordings / Nicola Dibben -- Speaking up and listening out: media technologies and the re-sounding of the public sphere / Kate Lacey -- U.S. public radio, social change, and the gendered voice / Jason Loviglio -- The biomechanics of voice and movement in the Solomon Nikritin's projection theatre (1920s) / Liubov Pchelkina --^
• Synthesized voices of the revolutionary Utopia: early attempts to synthesize speaking and singing voice in post-revolutionary Russia (1920s) / Andrey Smirnov -- Thereminvox / Lydia Kavina -- Voice-e-voice-design-e-voice-community: early public debates about the emotional quality of radio and tv announcers' voices in Germany, the Soviet Union and the USA (1920-1940) / Dmitri Zakharine -- Die Tonhöhe historischer filmstimmen als soziolinguistische variable / Folke Müller -- The exploited recordings: Czech and German voices in the film "Theresienstadt: ein dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen siedlungsgebiet" (1944-5) / Natascha Drubek -- The voices of the cosmos. Electronic synthesis of special sound effects in Soviet vs. American science fiction movies from Sputnik 1 to Apollo 8 / Konstantin Kaminskij -- Sounds like the sixties: approaches to analyze radio aesthetic in the past / Hans-Ulrich Wagner --^
• 'The shock of each moment, of still being alive'. Vocal sensations in Boom! (Losey, 1968) / Susan Smith -- "Seven-six-two millimeter. Full, metal, jacket". Voice and sound in popular late 20th century war movies / Nils Meise -- Theoretical-methodical approaches to radio aesthetics: qualitative characteristics of channel-identity / Golo Föllmer -- Alien voices: the sonic construction of foreignness in science fiction / Philip Preuss and Steffen Lepa -- Computer-based analysis of audiovisual material / Christofer Jost -- A medium of magical power: how to do things with voices in the western Amazon / Bernd Brabec de Mori -- The voice of Gusle and its resistance against electrification / Tanja Zimmermann.

ISBN

9783847100249 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 843863869
• SCSB-11766865

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library