Mattering Voices

Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano is a Voice Artist, Performance Philosopher, Researcher (PhD) at the Academy of Art and Design University of Gothenburg, Existential Counselor, and Priest in the Church of Sweden.Anne Tarvainen is an ethnomusicologist (PhD) specializing in the embodied, experiential, and cultural meanings of voice. She is currently a senior research fellow at the University of Eastern Finland.Milla Tiainen is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Turku and Associate Professor of Musicology (Title of Docent) at the University of Helsinki.

• List of contributorsSeries ForewordForeword: “Mattering Voices”Jon Ivan GillIntroduction: How to let a crossroads emerge between (the study of) voices and new materialisms?Milla Tiainen, Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano & Anne TarvainenPart I: Voicing ontologiesChapter 1: Voice: An imaginary figure of any thingElisabeth Laasonen Belgrano & Mark D. PriceChapter 2: The Onto-ethico-aesthetic force of musicalityJannie PrangerPart II: Voicing intra-active human agenciesChapter 3: Trans-corpo-vocality: Voice, gender, and environment in Demian Seesjärvi’s transmasculine senses of selfMilla TiainenChapter 4: “The Body vibrates with the power of singing:” Material, somaesthetic, and transactional features in the vocal experiences of singers with acid refluxAnne TarvainenChapter 5: Caring, touching, voicing. On how voice comes to voice in academiaMonika Rogowska-Stangret & Malou JuelskjærPart III: Voicing the more-than-humanChapter 6: Motor-mouthingJulieanna PrestonChapter 7: The Non-standard performance with the singing thereminTero NauhaChapter 8: Cow choirs: Singing-with more-than-human herdsJennie Tiderman-ÖsterbergChapter 9: Speaking of atmospheres: more-than voice and voice of the more-thanNorie NeumarkAfterwordLaura Cull Ó MaoilearcaIndex