- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Paradox of Voice
-
I Capturing Voice -
1 Vox Humana: The Instrumental Representation of the Human Voice -
2 Before the Beep: A Short History of Voice Mail -
3 Voice-Cast: The Distribution of the Voice via Podcasting -
4 Four Rooms -
5 The Crackle of the Wire: Media, Digitization, and the Voicing of Aboriginal Languages -
II Performing Voice -
6 Doing Things with Voices: Performativity and Voice -
7 Voice, Dance, Process, and the “Predigital”: Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer in the Early 1960s -
8 Raw Orality: Sound Poetry and Live Bodies -
9 Vocal Textures -
10 Professor VJ’s Big Blog Mashup -
III Reanimating VOICE -
11 Carbon and Silicon -
12 Cheats or Glitch?: Voice as a Game Modification in Machinima -
13 Filmic Voices -
14 Voice, Videogames, and the Technologies of Immersion -
15 The Play of the Voice: The Role of the Voice in Contemporary Video and Computer Games -
IV At the Human Limits of VOICE -
16 Humming -
17 “Digital Ghosts”: Voice and Migratory Hauntings -
18 Media Voices: Beyond Talking Heads -
19 Vocalizing the Posthuman - Contributors
- Index
Professor VJ’s Big Blog Mashup
Professor VJ’s Big Blog Mashup
- Chapter:
- (p.190) (p.191) 10 Professor VJ’s Big Blog Mashup
- Source:
- VOICE
- Author(s):
Mark Amerika
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter is an “autobiographical” account, through the voice of “Professor VJ,” of a vigorous aesthetic performance of a paradoxical voice function: It is an act of digital/remix of his voice, showing that what we consider to be our authentic voice is always/already inherited, a sampling of others, a remixing of our own. Professor VJ is an “appropriation artist” who claims that he does not have a “self” and quotes Kathy Acker, who, in a radio interview, uttered the words “What voice? I just steal shit” when asked where she finds her voice. For Professor VJ, voice is something mashed together of singing and talking, of speaking and breathing, of reading and writing. In the context of his work, the chapter equates “voice” with identity, conceived of as “character.”
Keywords: Professor VJ, voice, remixing, Kathy Acker, identity, character, singing, talking
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Paradox of Voice
-
I Capturing Voice -
1 Vox Humana: The Instrumental Representation of the Human Voice -
2 Before the Beep: A Short History of Voice Mail -
3 Voice-Cast: The Distribution of the Voice via Podcasting -
4 Four Rooms -
5 The Crackle of the Wire: Media, Digitization, and the Voicing of Aboriginal Languages -
II Performing Voice -
6 Doing Things with Voices: Performativity and Voice -
7 Voice, Dance, Process, and the “Predigital”: Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer in the Early 1960s -
8 Raw Orality: Sound Poetry and Live Bodies -
9 Vocal Textures -
10 Professor VJ’s Big Blog Mashup -
III Reanimating VOICE -
11 Carbon and Silicon -
12 Cheats or Glitch?: Voice as a Game Modification in Machinima -
13 Filmic Voices -
14 Voice, Videogames, and the Technologies of Immersion -
15 The Play of the Voice: The Role of the Voice in Contemporary Video and Computer Games -
IV At the Human Limits of VOICE -
16 Humming -
17 “Digital Ghosts”: Voice and Migratory Hauntings -
18 Media Voices: Beyond Talking Heads -
19 Vocalizing the Posthuman - Contributors
- Index
