Points of Articulation
Seth Scott
2020
Abstract:
This next one is a song about tongues. I should be more specific: not those kinds of tongues. This is not about metaphorical tongues, or symbolic tongues, or tongue-as-a-metonym-for-language tongues, or tips of tongues, or tongues in cheeks, or… I’ll try to be clear: this next one goes out to all the muscles in my mouth.
I mean, if the voice is a sign of presence, and truth, and goodness and so forth, then I might have bitten off more than I can chew. This next one goes out to all the words. To all the voices, the recorded sounds, and some of the ways in which they might be arranged. To all the politics and mechanics of those arrangements. It’s about your voice and, er…I guess, my voice? It is all mouth, but it is also all trousers; a sort of chewing over the sonorous and the semantic in the damp gap between the teeth.
Endnotes:
0m45s - Brandon LaBelle, Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), p5
0m50s - Freya Jarman-Ivens, Queer Voices: Technologies, Vocalities, and the Musical Flaw, (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), p4
1m01s - Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), p70
1m18s - Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994)
1m38s - Four Speech Habits That Are Undermining Your Job Chances
2m15s - Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), p31
2m44s - Beverly Collins and Inger M. Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology (London: Routledge, 2013), p38
3m01s - Robert Creeley, The Language
3m39s - LaBelle, Lexicon of the Mouth, p9
4m17s - Steven Connor, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford University Press, 2000), p36-37
4m31s - ‘powerful’ - Sei Jin Ko et al., The Sound of Power, Psychological Science, 26(1) (2014), pp.3–14.
4m34s - ‘capable’ - John Gumperz, excerpt from Crosstalk: A Study of Cross-cultural Communication (1979)
4m35s - ‘authoritative’ - Christine Mottram, Finding a pitch that resonates: an examination of gender and vocal authority in podcasting. Voice and Speech Review, 10(1) (2016), pp.53–69
4m37s - ‘valuable’ - Julie Hansen, Vocal Authority: Using Your Voice for Sales Success
4m39s - ‘dignified’ - Caroline Goyder, Gravitas: Communicate with Confidence, Influence and Authority (Vermillion, 2014)
4m41s - ‘high-risk’ - “voice analytics technology provides unique risk alerts based on an individual’s vocal responses”
4m43s - ‘undeserving of compassion’ - Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Conflicted Phonemes (2012)
4m45s - ‘untruthful’ - Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time
4m48s - ‘criminal’ - Ava Kofman, The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
4m49s - ‘damaged’ - awake craniotomy with singing and talking
4m51s - ‘unsound’ - Filter. Analyze. Detect.
4m56 - Psalm 50:19
5m35s - Dominic Lawson, And the voice of the workers is…Boris Johnson
5m45s - Video of white woman calling police on black man in Central Park draws outrage
5m57s - Preacher Perry Stone Checking His Phone
6m24s - Collins & Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology, p38
6m53s - Depeche Mode, Enjoy the Silence
8m12s - Frances Dyson, The Genealogy of the Radio Voice, in Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission, ed. Daina Augaitis and Dan Lander (Banff, 1994), pp.167-99
8m54s - Michel Chion, The Voice in Cinema, trans. by Claudia Gorbman, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), p17
9m14s - Bill Nichols, The Voice of Documentary, Film Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Spring, 1983), pp. 17-30
9m19s - Trinh T. Minh Ha, When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp.29-53