The pixel of the voice

Authors

  • Thiago Soares Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2014.161.03

Abstract

Voice digitization in contemporary music production, with synthesizers and audio programs in computers that “correct” vocal imperfections, is the starting point to question which bodies emerge from these sound materialities. We start a discussion about the practices in song production trying to understand how listening is affected in the contemporary music culture. The concept of “grain of the voice”, proposed by Roland Barthes, guides us as a “beacon” for the discussion around of what we call “pixel of the voice”: the perception not only of a body emerging from the vocal performance, but a production system of meaning that includes the music producer, the metamorphosis logics in current digital era and the ability to generate voices for bodies that have not even sung.

Keywords: music culture, voice, performance.

Author Biography

Thiago Soares, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Professor do Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Culturas Midiáticas (PPGC) da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

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Published

2013-10-07

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2014): January/April

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