Digital Oral Poetry : Voice and Subjectivity in Algorithmic Culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keylin, Vadim.

Series:

Poetry in the Digital Age Series

Poetry in the Digital Age Series ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound poetry.

Artificial intelligence in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

The speech technologies of the digital age make everything speak - from voice assistants and GPS navigators to streaming media.The dissociation of voice and speech from the speaker and the situation of speaking engendered by this condition imbues the ages-old question of lyric theory "Who speaks?" with renewed salience.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowlegements

Contents

Introduction: Between Voice and Data

Digital oral poetry

But is it (also) poetry?

Everything speaks

On the subject of subject

Chapter 1 Nobody's Voice: Poetry and Synthetic Speech

1.1 Practical ontologies of the poetic voice

1.2 Synthetic voices between naturalness and intelligibility

1.3 Vocalic bodies in text-to-speech poetry

1.3.1 Vanishing corporeality: Barbara Ellison, CyberSongs (2021)

1.3.2 Mutually assured defamiliarisation: YouTube channel Vocal Synthesis

1.3.3 The human in the posthuman: Ian Hatcher, Prosthesis (2016) and Drone Pilot (2017)

1.4 Speech-to-speech: Poetry for voice assistants and communication aids

1.4.1 Amazon Echo as a poet-performer: John Cayley, The Listeners (2015)

1.4.2 A human way to talk: Dave Young's Performance Poetry

1.5 Conclusion

Chapter 2 Voice of More (or Less) than One: ASMR Poetry

2.1 Aesthetics and poetics of intimacy

2.2 Voice without voice: Mediality of the whisper

2.3 The object voice: Sexual intimacy and ASMR fetishism

2.3.1 Body triggers, fast fabric scratching, teeth tapping, poetry reading: Beebee's poetic ASMR

2.3.2 Between trauma and glitch: Ronce, Malignant (2021)

2.4 Ecologies of whisper: Ontological intimacy at distance

2.4.1 Poem voice: Melinda Lauw reads "Spell" by Paola Mendoza (2020)

2.3.2 More-than-human whispers: Anne Munka, Dagmara Kraus and Kinga Tóth, ASMR Etudes (2018) and Moritat für sechs Hände (2021)

2.4.3 Intimate hacks: Erin Gee's ASMR works (2018-2020)

2.5 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Voice of the Machine: AI Poetry in Performance

3.1 Creativity and the (artificial) self

3.2 Inner voice sans interiority

3.3 Vocal individuation of the humanoid AI

3.3.1 Authentic artifice: Ai-Da, Poetry of Consolation (2019) and the Ashmolean recital (2022).

3.3.2 Poetic AInimism: Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, The Time of Man (2020)

3.4 Human-machine polyphony: AI as assemblage

3.4.1 Under the (person)hood: FN Meka's AI rap and its paratexts

3.4.2 Inside the poet's hivemind: Zuzana Husárová performs Liza Gennart (2022)

3.4.3 Artificial intelligence, human voice: Monika Rinck's Aargau lecture (2022)

3.5 Conclusion

Chapter 4 Voices of the Many: Audioliterary Poetry in Participatory Culture

4.1 Voices of digital orality

4.2 (Post)digital subjects

4.3 From pre- to postdigital: Beatboxing and/as sound poetry

4.4.1 Between folklore and avant-garde: King Luck, "Allow me to introduce myself" (2020)

4.3.2 By machines - for machines: Christian Bök, The Cyborg Opera (2009)

4.4.3 Beatboxing as linguistic disobedience: Jasmine Gardosi, "Be Poet" (2020)

4.4 Audioliterary writing online: Remixes and autotune stories

4.4.1 Singing estranged authenticity: Kevin James Thornton (@kevinjamesthornton), "The Story Behind the Phantom of the Opera" (2021)

4.4.2 Postdigital roleplay and nerdcore poetics: Jorgenson (@JorgensonYT), "Sumpfkraut" (2019)

4.3.3 Lipsynching without lips: B. Ames, "Alyssa Edwards: Drop Dead Gorgeous" (2013)

4.5 Conclusion

Conclusion: Poetics of Multistable Humanism

Bibliography

Index of Names.

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ISBN:

3-11-224995-X

OCLC:

1590081827