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Study Day: Voices and Noises
March 27, 2015 @ 12:00 am - 6:00 pm
Image: A spectrogram (0-5000 Hz) of the sentence “it’s all Greek to me” spoken by a female voice. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_voice#mediaviewer/File:Human_voice_spectrogram.jpg
Program Schedule
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* Lunch served at 12pm session – registration required, email jw140 [at] duke.edu
12:00 – Noon seminar with presentation of papers *
“We Have the Real Truth to Communicate”: Vocal Sincerity in Fundamentalist Christian Church Services
Sarah Bereza (Music, Duke)
ASMR: Affective Labor, Sound Tactility, and Spectatorship
Laura Jaramillo (Literature, Duke)
Inhabiting The Acousmêtre; The Hidden Abode of Cinematic Production in Berberian Sound Studio
Yair Rubinstein (Literature, Duke)
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Afternoon sessions
2:30-3:15
Wireless Encounters: Weather Calls Voices in Noises
Zeynep Bulut (King’s College London)
3:30-4:15
Josefine, the Singer or the Silent Film Diva: Implied Sound in Kafka and Early Film
Kata Gellen (Germanic Studies, Duke)
5:00-5:45
Choralities
Steven Connor (University of Cambridge)
Response: Prof. Rey Chow (Literature, Duke)
