For this seminar, AIL were excited to welcome Zeynep Bulut, a voice and sound theorist and a Lecturer in Music at SARC, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, at Queen’s University Belfast. Her first book, titled, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin (London: Goldsmiths Press, 2024), explores the emergence, embodiment and mediation of voice as skin. Her articles have appeared in various volumes and journals including The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art, Perspectives of New Music, Postmodern Culture, and Music and Politics. She is project lead for the research platform, Music, Arts, Health, and Environment, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account at QUB. Alongside her scholarly work, she has also exhibited sound works, composed and performed vocal pieces for concert, video, and theatre, and released two singles. Her composer profile has been featured by British Music Collection. She is a certified practitioner of Deep Listening.

The Augmented Instruments Laboratory is led by Professor Andrew McPherson, based in the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London and the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. The seminar, organized by Dr Landon Morrison, took place at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London, and was live streamed on AIL YouTube channel. 

The full abstract of the talk is available via the following link: 

http://instrumentslab.org/news/2024/06/17/seminar-series-005 

URL: https://www.youtube.com/live/yuEgu_Gz8pY