Event overview
Goldsmiths Press Book Launch, Friday 26th September, 5:30pm, Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College, SE14 6AD. Open to the Public.
How do we build or make a voice together? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves both as a boundary and as a point of connection? What does such a voice capacitate in times of crises and uncertainties? In "Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin," Zeynep Bulut explores these questions. She examines the multi-sensory and collective forms of voice making in experimental music, sound and media art in conversation with the use of voice in creative interventions for environmental crisis, experiences of voice hearing, and digital technologies of artificial and tactile speech. Through this conversation, she points to two key terms: plasticity of voice, and non-dialogue. Voice-as-skin, in effect, prompts us to reflect on both individual and collective, concrete and emergent, and uncertain and shared aspects of voice and speech, as well as to pace and revisit our conceptions of communication, intersubjectivity, connectivity, understanding and empathy.
Please join us for the launch of Zeynep Bulut's book, "Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin" published by Goldsmiths Press Sonics Series, and distributed by MIT Press and Penguin/Random House. The author will be present to present the book and sign copies, with respondants Prof Salomé Voegelin (UAL/LCC) and Prof Atau Tanaka (Sonics Series editor). The event is free and open to the public. London Overground New Cross Gate.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Sep 2025 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
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