The grain of the voice of the cyborg

This report is an attempt to use the vocalic body, an imaginative construction of the body of origin for an acousmatic voice, as a tool for examining vocal timbre in conjunction with electronic music and external vocal technologies. By recounting historical reactions to electronic vocal technologies, exploring Wendy Carlos’ and Laura Les’ uses of these technologies in conjunction with transfemininity, and examining the evolution of Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek” as mediated by a variety of these technologies, this report demonstrates the ability of vocalic body constructions to utilize shared language for novel and insightful evaluations of vocal timbre in electronic music. The author suggests that discussions of the vocalic body can benefit future theorizations of vocal timbre.

Author dc:creator

• Lunt, Jillian

Contributors dc:contributor

• Burns, Chelsea
• Drott, Eric A

• Vocalic body
• Cyborg
• Vocal timbre
• Electronic music
• Ghosting
• Laura Les
• Wendy Carlos
• Imogen Heap
• T-Pain
• Vocoder
• Auto-Tune
• Recording technology
• Music production
• Grain of the voice

Language dc:language

en

Identifier

http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/47590

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:tdl-ir.tdl.org:2152/120758