Index

Series Foreword   VII
Preface   IX
Acknowledgments   XII
Introduction: The Paradox of Voice   XV
Norie Neumark

I Capturing VOICE   1

1 Vox Humana : The Instrumental Representation of the Human 
Voice   5
Theo van Leeuwen

2 Before the Beep : A Short History of Voice Mail   17
Thomas Y. Levin

3 Voice-Cast : The Distribution of the Voice via Podcasting   33
Virginia Madsen and John Potts

4 Four Rooms   61
Theresa M. Senft

5 The Crackle of the Wire : Media, Digitization, and the Voicing of 
Aboriginal Languages   71
Martin Thomas

II Preforming VOICE   91

6 Doing Things with Voices : Performativity and Voice   95
Norie Neumark

7 Voice, Dance, Process, and the "Predigital": Simone Forti and Yvonne 
Rainer in the Early 1960s   119
Meredith Morse

8 Raw Orality : Sound Poetry and Live Bodies   147
Brandon LaBelle 

9 Vocal Textures   173
Amanda Stewart   

10 Professor VJ's Big Blog Mashup   191
Mark Amerika   

III Reanimating VOICE   207

11 Carbon and Silicon   211
Ross Gibson   

12 Cheats or Glitch? : Voice as a Game Modification in Machinima   225
Isabelle Arvers   

13 Filmic Voices   243
Helen Macallan and Andrew Plain   

14 Voice, Videogames, and the Technologies of Immersion   267
Mark Ward 

15 The Play of the Voice : The Role of the Voice in Contemporary Video 
and Computer Games   281
Axel Stockburger  

IV At the Human Limits of VOICE   301

16 Humming   305
Michael Taussig 

17 "Digital Ghosts" : Voice and Migratory Hauntings   319
Nermin Saybasili 

18 Media Voices : Beyond Talking Heads   345
Giselle Beiguelman 

19 Vocalizing the Posthuman   361
Philip Brophy 

List of Contributors   383

Index   385