For More than One Voice
For More than One Voice

Author: Adriana Cavarero

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0804749558

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The human voice does not deceive. The one who is speaking is inevitably revealed by the singular sound of her voice, no matter "what" she says. Starting from the given uniqueness of every voice, Cavarero rereads the history of philosophy through its peculiar evasion of this embodied uniqueness.

Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology
Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology

Author: Miriama Young

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1317054849

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Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body. From the phonautograph to magnetic tape and now to digital sampling, Miriama Young visits particular musical and literary works that define a century-and-a-half of recorded sound. She discusses the way in which the human voice is captured, transformed or synthesised through technology. This includes the sampled voice, the mechanical voice, the technologically modified voice, the pliable voice of the digital era, and the phenomenon by which humans mimic the sounding traits of the machine. The book draws from key electro-vocal works spanning a range of genres - from Luciano Berio's Thema: Omaggio a Joyce to Radiohead, from Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting in a Room, to Björk, and from Pierre Henry's Variations on a Door and a Sigh to Christian Marclay's Maria Callas. In essence, this book transcends time and musical style to reflect on the way in which the machine transforms our experience of the voice. The chapters are interpolated by conversations with five composers who work creatively with the voice and technology: Trevor Wishart, Katharine Norman, Paul Lansky, Eduardo Miranda and Bora Yoon. This book is an interdisciplinary enterprise that combines music aesthetics and musical analysis with literature and philosophy.

The Philosophy of the Human Voice
The Philosophy of the Human Voice

Author: James Rush

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2012-02

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781458933683

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The PHILOSOPHY THE HUMAN VOICE. SECTION I. Of the general Divisions of Vocal Sound: with a more particular aaount of its Pitch. All the constituents of the human voice, may be refered to the five folowing modes: VOCAHLITY, FORCE, TIME, ABRUPTNESS, PITCH. The detail of these five modes, and of the multiplied combination of their several forms, degrees, and varieties, includes the enumeration of all the Articulating and the Expresive powers of speech. The extension of knowledge calls for an aditional nomenclature; and new facts and principles on the subject of the voice, will require new terms for the description and arangement of them. It is therefore proper to show, how far comon nomenclature fulfils the purpose of explanation and division; and to provide the means by which an obvious deficiency may be suplied. The terms by which Vocality or the Kind of voice is distin- guished, arej rough, smooth, harsh, full, thin, musical, and some others of the same metaphorical character. They are suficiently numerous; and as descriptive as posible, without reference to ex- . amplar sounds. Vocalists have proposed to distinguish the singing voice, by its resemblance to the sound of the reed, the string, and the musical-glass. The sub-animals aford analogies to the diferent vocalities in the human voice. For the specifications of Force, we use the wordsj strong, weak, loud, forcible, and feeble. These are indefinite in their indication, and without a fixed measure in degree. Music has more orderly and numerously distinguished the varieties of force, by its series of terms from Pianisimo to Fortisimo. I shall, in its proper place, make some new distinctions in the maner of employing this mode. Time, in speaking, is denoted by the termsj long, shor...

Stanley Cavell and the Potencies of the Voice
Stanley Cavell and the Potencies of the Voice

Author: Adam Gonya

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 150134949X

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Stanley Cavell was one of the most influential American philosophers of the past several decades. Yet because he is often read in connection with Wittgenstein, there has been little consideration of his work against the background of the larger German philosophical tradition. Stanley Cavell and the Potencies of the Voice brings Cavell into dialogue with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the question of how we make ourselves intelligible, opening up a new way of looking at central themes in Cavell's philosophy.

In a Different Voice
In a Different Voice

Author: Carol Gilligan

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1993-07

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780674445444

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This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than 700,000 copies sold around the world, In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate—and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women—their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.