Sensing Voice

Materiality and the Lived Body in Singing and Listening

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4364485
AutoresNina Sun Eidsheim (0000-0001-6373-3998, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen6
Número2
Páginas133-155
Fecha de publicación2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Senses and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/174589311x12961584845729
OpenAlexW2324777252
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas15

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 part in what it feels like to sing, and what it is possible to hear. I aim to demonstrate that a sensory reading of singing and listening may capture dimensions of the voice that are difficult, if not impossible, to account for using conventional analyses of music or standard readings of vocal repertoire. However, a sensory approach to sound does not offer a stable explanation of what sound or music is. Instead each such account unveils a composite manifestation of our understanding of sound at a given moment in time and space.KEYWORDS: voicewater acousticsbody and listeningfeminist philosophy

Speech recognition · Computer Science · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Speech and Audio Processing