- 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
The Crackle of the Wire: Media, Digitization, and the Voicing of Aboriginal Languages
The Crackle of the Wire: Media, Digitization, and the Voicing of Aboriginal Languages
- Chapter:
- (p.70) (p.71) 5 The Crackle of the Wire: Media, Digitization, and the Voicing of Aboriginal Languages
- Source:
- VOICE
- Author(s):
Martin Thomas
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter explores the confluence of sound recording, language, and digital technologies in Arnhem Land in Australia, owned by Aborigines, and examines how technologies for capturing sound have enabled the Australian Aborigines to keep their knowledge and traditions alive in spite of language loss. It also looks at how the indigenous peoples employed such technologies to “write” their stories even without inscribing them into a semiotic modality that sheds their fundamental oral qualities. The chapter demonstrates how media and digitization have made the voicing of Aboriginal languages possible.
Keywords: Australian Aborigines, Aboriginal languages, sound recording, digital technologies, Arnhem Land, media, digitization, indigenous peoples
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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
