Dr Zeynep Bulut will present her new book, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin (Goldsmiths Press, March 2025). Drawing on the individual and collective forms and multi-sensory modalities of voice making in experimental music and media art, and conversing them with the use of voice in creative interventions for environmental crisis, experiences of voice hearing, and digital technologies of artificial and tactile speech, she will discuss the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin, as a multi-sensory and shared surface that both connects and differentiates bodies of all kinds.  She will consider how this conception of voice-as-skin can prompt us to revisit the rushed notions of communication, connectivity, and empathy as well as to build resilience and immunity in times of crisis and uncertainty. 

Full description and details of the book are available via the following links:

https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/building-a-voice/

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380885/building-a-voice/

Zeynep Bulut, Queen’s University Belfast is a voice and sound theorist. She is a Senior Lecturer at SARC, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, at Queen's University Belfast. Her first book, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin, is published by Goldsmiths Press, distributed by the MIT Press and Penguin. Her articles have appeared in various volumes and journals including The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art, Perspectives of New Music, Postmodern Culture, and Music and Politics. She is project lead for the interdisciplinary research platform, Music, Arts, Health, and Environment, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council's Impact Acceleration Account at QUB. Alongside her scholarly work, she has also exhibited sound works, composed and performed vocal pieces for concert, video, and theater, and released two singles. Her composer profile has been featured by British Music Collection. She is a certified practitioner of Deep Listening.