Research Catalog

Title

Voicetracks : attuning to voice in media, and the arts / Norie Neumark.

Author

Neumark, Norie

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xiii, 215 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Moved by the Aboriginal understandings of songlines or dreaming tracks, Norie Neumark's Voicetracks seeks to deepen an understanding of voice through listening to a variety of voicing/sound/voice projects from Australia, Europe and the United States. Not content with the often dry tone of academic writing, the author engages a "wayfaring" process that brings together theories of sound, animal, and posthumanist studies in order to change the ways we think about and act with the assemblages of living creatures, things, places, and histories around us. Neumark evokes both the literal - the actual voices within the works she examines - and the metaphorical -- in a new materialist exploration of voice encompassing human, animal, thing, and assemblages. She engages with artists working with animal sounds and voices; voices of place, placed voices in installation works; voices of technology; and "unvoicing," disturbances in the image/voice relationship and in the idea of what voice is. She writes about remixes, the Barbie Liberation Organisation, and breath in Beijing, about cat videos, speaking fences in Australia, and an artist who reads (to) the birds. Finally, she considers ethics and politics, and describes how her own work has shaped her understandings and apprehensions of voice.

Series Statement

Leonardo

Uniform Title

Leonardo book series.

Subjects

• New media art > Themes, motives
• Voice in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: voice, voicetracks, new materialism -- Animal tracks: affect, aesthetics, ethics -- Ears to the ground: voicing place -- Technology and machines speak (for) themselves -- Unvoice in media and the arts: voice going off the rails -- Tracking back -- Notes -- References -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780262036139 (hardcover ;
• 0262036134 (hardcover ;

LCCN

2016039113

OCLC

• ocn957656397
• 957656397
• SCSB-1885986

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library