TY - BOOK

T1 - Vocal Bodies

T2 - Performing Paralinguistic Stereotypes and Multivocalities in Art and Digital Media

AU - Hasse Jørgensen, Stina Marie

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Voice is both a matter of expression and of being heard, and connects deeply to feelings of intimacy, identity and bodily practices and imaginaries. With this PhD project Vocal Bodies: PerformingParalinguistic Stereotypes and Multivocalities in Art and Digital Media, I investigate how vocal expressions are stressed and transformed through technological mediation, distribution, or synthesis. Through my methodological approach of listening to and through vocal expressions, I map out how technologies shape vocal stereotypes or multivocalities. Here I specifically focus on the paralinguistics, that is the auditive and bodily aspects of voice alongside linguistics. The discussion presented in the dissertation has been developed through an interplay between the theory and practice that has unfolded during the PhD project. Grounded in my analysis of different contemporary artworks and in the practice-led research conducted in relation to the collective vocal projects Collective Performative Reading and [multi’vocal], I argue that paralinguistic performances can be multivocal, moving experiences of vocal sonic performance away from associations with identity politics to that of structural critiques or imaginaries of alternative worlds and conditions – in an interplay with the listener. I present several different ways in which paralinguistic multivocality is performed in art and digital media as auditive bodies of transnational and transhistorical trauma, emigration, consumption, gendered oppression, and othering in the neoliberal consumer society. Finally, the discussion presented in the PhD dissertation also present new collective ways of designing paralinguistics in digital media. The studies on technological paralinguistics conducted in this dissertation contribute to the field of sound studies, connecting it to audio engineering and computer science. This is an important new field of study as the paralinguistics of voices whether real or imaginary, are part of shaping how wecome to understand ourselves and others through a material relationality of vocal expressions.

AB - Voice is both a matter of expression and of being heard, and connects deeply to feelings of intimacy, identity and bodily practices and imaginaries. With this PhD project Vocal Bodies: PerformingParalinguistic Stereotypes and Multivocalities in Art and Digital Media, I investigate how vocal expressions are stressed and transformed through technological mediation, distribution, or synthesis. Through my methodological approach of listening to and through vocal expressions, I map out how technologies shape vocal stereotypes or multivocalities. Here I specifically focus on the paralinguistics, that is the auditive and bodily aspects of voice alongside linguistics. The discussion presented in the dissertation has been developed through an interplay between the theory and practice that has unfolded during the PhD project. Grounded in my analysis of different contemporary artworks and in the practice-led research conducted in relation to the collective vocal projects Collective Performative Reading and [multi’vocal], I argue that paralinguistic performances can be multivocal, moving experiences of vocal sonic performance away from associations with identity politics to that of structural critiques or imaginaries of alternative worlds and conditions – in an interplay with the listener. I present several different ways in which paralinguistic multivocality is performed in art and digital media as auditive bodies of transnational and transhistorical trauma, emigration, consumption, gendered oppression, and othering in the neoliberal consumer society. Finally, the discussion presented in the PhD dissertation also present new collective ways of designing paralinguistics in digital media. The studies on technological paralinguistics conducted in this dissertation contribute to the field of sound studies, connecting it to audio engineering and computer science. This is an important new field of study as the paralinguistics of voices whether real or imaginary, are part of shaping how wecome to understand ourselves and others through a material relationality of vocal expressions.

M3 - Ph.D. thesis

BT - Vocal Bodies

PB - Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet

ER -