Notes: This edition includes an essay about the essence of improvisation by Joan La Barbara, Lee Gamble looking at neural networks and vocal simulation systems, an untitled anecdote from Ghedalia Tazartes (RIP) and Stine Janvin on the necessity of singing, plus much more.
"The voice is everywhere, infiltrating everything, making civilisation, marking out territories with infinite borders, spreading from the farthest reaches to the most intimate spaces. It can be neither reduced nor summarised. And accordingly, when taken as a theme, the voice is inexhaustible, even when seen in the light of its very particular relation with the sonic or the musical, as is the case in most of the texts collected in this volume. There is no point therefore in trying to circumscribe or amalgamate the multiple avatars of the voice.
We must rather try to apprehend what the voice can do, to envisage its landscape, its potential effects."
-Extract from the editors' foreword
Fourth issue of Shelter Press' (in association with INA GRM) annual publication series 'Spectres', this time themed around Voice.
Featuring contributions from Francois J. Bonnet, John Giorno, David Grubbs, Yannick Guedon, Lee Gamble, Sarah Hennies, Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, Stine Janvin, Joan La Barbara, Youmna Saba, Akira Sakata, Pierre Schaeffer, Peter Szendy and Ghedalia Tazartes
256 pages, Thread sewn softcover, Bilingual edition French/English (all content included in both languages).
Editors: Francois Bonnet and Bartolome Sa
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