Nina Sun Eidsheim
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 772397 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nina Sun Eidsheim |
| NOMBRES | Nina Sun |
| APELLIDO | Eidsheim |
| FIRMA | EIDSHEIM N S |
| AFILIACIONES | UCLA Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6373-3998 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Speak-to-Write from Multiple Perspectives, as Method
One of the practice-based research methods that excites me the most today is to work with writing as a practice, and as a practice-based research method. The technology of writing can be very misleading, especially when that writing is typed using a word processing program. When using this tool, writing looks the same whether it represents a stream of consciousness, a first draft, or a final proof. Because of this, I have found that I hold myself…
No Conclusions
Tools and perspectives serve particular ends. When they are no longer useful because a goal, such as writing a book, has been achieved, pieces of paper change status from vital tools to a pile of materials to be recycled. Also, when the goal (or question) changes—for example, from racially differentiating people by voice, exhibiting musical superiority, or settling and colonizing continents to uncovering vocal and musical multiplicities or writin…
“Doing the hearing, the making, and the explaining”
In my early life, I never aspired to write about music. Initially, my work in music grew out of an intense curiosity about what the voice could do. Following a traditional educational pathway, I trained at a music conservatory based on the old European model—essentially a trade school, where craft was taught by instructors considered masters in their areas. Instruction was meant to be received uncritically. As a person of color, a number of unart…
The Race of Sound
In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how liste…
The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies
More than two hundred years after the first speaking machine, we are accustomed to voices talking from seemingly anywhere and everywhere, including house alarm systems, cars, telephones, and digital assistants, or “smart speakers” such as Alexa and Google Home. However, vocal events still have the capacity to raise age-old questions regarding the human, the animal, the machine, and the spiritual—or in nonmetaphysical terms, questions about identi…
The Race of Sound
Sensing Sound
Music's material dependency : what underwater opera can tell us about Odysseus's ears -- The acoustic mediation of voice, self, and others -- Music as action : singing happens before sound -- All voice, all ears : from the figure of sound to the practice of music -- Music as a vibrational practice : singing and listening as everything and nothing
The Micropolitics of Listening to Vocal Timbre
Why are notions about voice and race that are no longer supported by research still reproduced? Through ethnography work on classical vocal training in southern California in the early twenty-first century, this article demonstrates that listeners—teacher and audiences—project intention and identity onto vocal timbres and entrain the voices accordingly. As such, this research is concerned with the cultural-historical formation of one specific cat…
Introduction
Introduction:Voice Matters Annette Schlichter (bio) and Nina Sun Eidsheim (bio) "... the voice is there to be forgotten in its materiality; only at this cost does it fill its primary function." -Michel Chion "Sound is a little piece of the vibrating world." -Jonathan Sterne Voice plays a vital role in human ecology. Simultaneously tied to the body and entwined with the external environment, the voice exists in a complex interaction with multiple …
Sensing Voice
Through a consideration of the underwater singing practiced by contemporary American soprano and performance artist Juliana Snapper, this article addresses the inherent relation between materiality and the voice, the sensed and the embodied. I focus on the physical and sensory properties of singers' and listeners' bodies; the space within and the matter through which sound disperses; and how the relation between these aspects plays an integral pa…
Marian Anderson and "Sonic Blackness" in American Opera
Marian Anderson's 1955 Metropolitan Opera debut promised to be a pivotal moment that would create a level playing field for African American singers in U.S. opera. But an examination of Anderson's career, as well as those of later African American opera stars, reveals that their operatic engagements were often limited to marginalized characters. In attempt to understand this situation, this essay looks to the history of African Americans singing …
Sensing Sound
Music's material dependency : what underwater opera can tell us about Odysseus's ears -- The acoustic mediation of voice, self, and others -- Music as action : singing happens before sound -- All voice, all ears : from the figure of sound to the practice of music -- Music as a vibrational practice : singing and listening as everything and nothing
Marian Anderson and "Sonic Blackness" in American Opera
Marian Anderson's 1955 Metropolitan Opera debut promised to be a pivotal moment that would create a level playing field for African American singers in U.S. opera. But an examination of Anderson's career, as well as those of later African American opera stars, reveals that their operatic engagements were often limited to marginalized characters. In attempt to understand this situation, this essay looks to the history of African Americans singing …
Sensing Voice
Through a consideration of the underwater singing practiced by contemporary American soprano and performance artist Juliana Snapper, this article addresses the inherent relation between materiality and the voice, the sensed and the embodied. I focus on the physical and sensory properties of singers' and listeners' bodies; the space within and the matter through which sound disperses; and how the relation between these aspects plays an integral pa…
The Race of Sound
Introduction
Introduction:Voice Matters Annette Schlichter (bio) and Nina Sun Eidsheim (bio) "... the voice is there to be forgotten in its materiality; only at this cost does it fill its primary function." -Michel Chion "Sound is a little piece of the vibrating world." -Jonathan Sterne Voice plays a vital role in human ecology. Simultaneously tied to the body and entwined with the external environment, the voice exists in a complex interaction with multiple …
The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies
More than two hundred years after the first speaking machine, we are accustomed to voices talking from seemingly anywhere and everywhere, including house alarm systems, cars, telephones, and digital assistants, or “smart speakers” such as Alexa and Google Home. However, vocal events still have the capacity to raise age-old questions regarding the human, the animal, the machine, and the spiritual—or in nonmetaphysical terms, questions about identi…
Sensing Voice
Through a consideration of the underwater singing practiced by contemporary American soprano and performance artist Juliana Snapper, this article addresses the inherent relation between materiality and the voice, the sensed and the embodied. I focus on the physical and sensory properties of singers' and listeners' bodies; the space within and the matter through which sound disperses; and how the relation between these aspects plays an integral pa…
Marian Anderson and "Sonic Blackness" in American Opera
Marian Anderson's 1955 Metropolitan Opera debut promised to be a pivotal moment that would create a level playing field for African American singers in U.S. opera. But an examination of Anderson's career, as well as those of later African American opera stars, reveals that their operatic engagements were often limited to marginalized characters. In attempt to understand this situation, this essay looks to the history of African Americans singing …
The Micropolitics of Listening to Vocal Timbre
Why are notions about voice and race that are no longer supported by research still reproduced? Through ethnography work on classical vocal training in southern California in the early twenty-first century, this article demonstrates that listeners—teacher and audiences—project intention and identity onto vocal timbres and entrain the voices accordingly. As such, this research is concerned with the cultural-historical formation of one specific cat…
Introduction
Introduction:Voice Matters Annette Schlichter (bio) and Nina Sun Eidsheim (bio) "... the voice is there to be forgotten in its materiality; only at this cost does it fill its primary function." -Michel Chion "Sound is a little piece of the vibrating world." -Jonathan Sterne Voice plays a vital role in human ecology. Simultaneously tied to the body and entwined with the external environment, the voice exists in a complex interaction with multiple …
Sensing Sound
Music's material dependency : what underwater opera can tell us about Odysseus's ears -- The acoustic mediation of voice, self, and others -- Music as action : singing happens before sound -- All voice, all ears : from the figure of sound to the practice of music -- Music as a vibrational practice : singing and listening as everything and nothing
The Race of Sound
The Race of Sound
In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how liste…
The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies
More than two hundred years after the first speaking machine, we are accustomed to voices talking from seemingly anywhere and everywhere, including house alarm systems, cars, telephones, and digital assistants, or “smart speakers” such as Alexa and Google Home. However, vocal events still have the capacity to raise age-old questions regarding the human, the animal, the machine, and the spiritual—or in nonmetaphysical terms, questions about identi…
Speak-to-Write from Multiple Perspectives, as Method
One of the practice-based research methods that excites me the most today is to work with writing as a practice, and as a practice-based research method. The technology of writing can be very misleading, especially when that writing is typed using a word processing program. When using this tool, writing looks the same whether it represents a stream of consciousness, a first draft, or a final proof. Because of this, I have found that I hold myself…
No Conclusions
Tools and perspectives serve particular ends. When they are no longer useful because a goal, such as writing a book, has been achieved, pieces of paper change status from vital tools to a pile of materials to be recycled. Also, when the goal (or question) changes—for example, from racially differentiating people by voice, exhibiting musical superiority, or settling and colonizing continents to uncovering vocal and musical multiplicities or writin…
“Doing the hearing, the making, and the explaining”
In my early life, I never aspired to write about music. Initially, my work in music grew out of an intense curiosity about what the voice could do. Following a traditional educational pathway, I trained at a music conservatory based on the old European model—essentially a trade school, where craft was taught by instructors considered masters in their areas. Instruction was meant to be received uncritically. As a person of color, a number of unart…
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