Zeynep Bulut

Selected Publications:

Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin. London: Goldsmiths Press, distributed by the MIT Press and Penguin, February 2025.

“Searching for the Intimacy of Voice: In conversation with Elaine Mitchener,” Living Music. Eds. Christopher Dingle and Xenia Pestova Bennett. London, New York: Routledge, forthcoming. 

“Alien Speech, Shared Sense,” Music, Sound, and Global Modernism: A Critical History. Eds. Daniel Grimley and Sherry Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in progress, forthcoming. 

“Last Breath, Sensing Life,” Oxford Handbook of Sound Art, Eds. Jane Grant, John Matthias, and David Prior, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 367-385. 

“Anonymous Voice, Sound and Indifference,” Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama. Eds. Jelena Novak and John Richardson. London: Ashgate, 2019.

“Planes, Walls, and Bits of Sound: Healing a voice,” Special issue on voice. Eds. J. Martin Daughtry and Clara Latham. Music and Politics, X.2 (Summer, 2016).

“Silence and Speech in Lecture on Nothing and Phonophonie,” Voice Matters. Eds. Nina Sun Eidsheim and Annette Schlichter. Postmodern Culture 24.3 (May 2014).

“Singing and a song: The intimate difference in Susan Philipsz’s Lowlands,” Gestures of Music Theatre: The Performativity of Song and Dance. Eds. Millie Taylor and Dominic Symonds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, January 2014, 179-190.

“Theorizing Voice in Performance: György Ligeti’s Aventures,” Perspectives of New Music. Volume 48, No 1, Winter 2010, 44-65.

Reviews and Other Articles:

“Fear not, keep breathing,” in the Exhibition Catalogue of Dystopia Sound Art. Dystopia Sound Art, curated by Selcuk Artut and Jeremy Woodruff, supported by Akbank Sanat and Goethe Institute, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, 2021. 

Kelly, Caleb. Gallery Sound (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) Journal of Sonic Studies, June 2020. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558982/934177

Young, Miriama. Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice And Sound Technology (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015) Twentieth Century Music 13.1 (Spring 2016).

Bernhart, Walter & Lawrence Kramer (Eds.) On Voice (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014) Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies Volume 1. Issue 2 (May 2016).

“Cage and Care” in Dirty Ear Report #1, edited by Brandon LaBelle, Berlin, Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, July 2016.

“A vibration meant-to be,” LOUD Silence, Exhibition Catalog No 19, Gallery at CALIT (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology), University of California, San Diego, edited and curated by Amanda Cachia, 2015, 42-51.

Talks, Seminars, Panels (2017- 2024):

"Sustainable Speech: Experimental Music and Sensory Technologies for Post-Stroke Aphasia," Research Seminar, invited by Dr. Landon Morrison, as part of the Open Seminar Series of the Augmented Instruments Lab, led by Prof. Andrew McPherson, Imperial College London, 21 June 2024.

"Reflections on Distributed Speech." Research Seminar Series convened by the Department of Music at City, University of London, 27 March 2024.

"Historical Turns and Promises of Sounding Together." Sound in Artistic Research 2023/2024 | Public Lecture Series. Moderated by Prof. Dr. Sabine Sanio. Universität der Künste Berlin. 29 January 2024.

“Biosensing Musical Interface As Tactile Speech,” Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media. Conference convened by the Department of Music at Harvard University, organised by Landon Morrison, 11-13 May 2023. 

“Voice Interfacing with Skin,” Research Seminar/Colloquium Series. Department of Music, University of Birmingham, 26 April 2023.

“A Case of Voice-Skin: Bio-sensor Performance.” Research Seminar/Colloquium Series. School of Music, University College Dublin, 16 February 2023. 

“Voices across the ocean,” Sonic Sentience: Can you hear the ocean’s voice? Panel curated and convened by Carla J. Maier. With Gilles Aubry and Carla J. Maier. Norient Festival. Bern, 13 January 2023. 

Music and Sound in Narratives of Healing. Inaugural Conference of Music, Arts, Health, and Environment Research Network and Platform (MAHE). Convened by Zeynep Bulut. Supported by ESRC Impact Acceleration Account at QUB. Zoom, 16 December 2022. 

“Listening to depth, surfaces, and edges.” Sonic Meditation with Ignota Books, as part of the live programme, Caves, Dwellings, and Vibrations. Curated by Canan Batur. Nottingham Contemporary, 11 December 2022. 

Environmental Mediations of Voice, Speech, and Public Health. Convened by Zeynep Bulut. With Orla Duffy and Karen Diamond. Supported by and featured as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science in NI 2022. The MAC Belfast, 5 November 2022. 

“Sustainable Speech,” Considering Trauma Across Sound and Music Disciplines. Panel convened by Jillian Rogers, Erin M. Brooks, and Michelle Meinhart. American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology and Society for Music Theory Joint Meeting, New Orleans, 12 November 2022. 

“Skin-Voice,” Seminar. Public Program: Voice As Object, Object (H)as Voice. The Field Kitchen Academy. Curated by Ece Pazarbasi. Brandenburg, 13 August 2022. 

“Sustainable Speech,” In-person and Virtual Seminar, 2021-2022 FUAIM Lecture Series. Convened by Alex Khalil. Department of Music, University College Cork, 3 March 2022. 

“Alarm will touch,” Attention, Cognition, and the Auditory Self, 1770-1920 at the Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik. Convened by Carmel Raz (MPIEA) and Francesca Brittan (Case Western Reserve University), Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Frankfurt, 5-6 August 2021.

“Distributed Voices, Response, and Responsibility,” Virtual Lecture, Lecture Series: Whose Voice Matters? The voice (in art) as material, sense, meaning and power. Convened by Salomé Voegelin, Die Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Berlin,  21 June 2021. 

“Self-Talk and Migration of Voices,” Virtual Seminar, Colloquium Series, Department of Music, Wesleyan University, 18 March 2021.

“A Piece of Sustainability,” Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, virtual conference organised by Erin Brooks, Jillian Rogers, Michelle Meinhart, and Jacqueline Fortier, Indiana University, 12-14 February 2021.

“Tactile Speech, and Biosensor Performance as a Case of Voice-Skin,” Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, virtual conference supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, The British Academy, The University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, and The University of York. The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, 14-18 December 2020.

Chaired the session, “Voice and Race,” American Musicological Society’s Annual Meeting, virtual conference, 7-8, 14-15 November 2020.

“Up in the air: Communal Voice Making,” Department of Music, University of Aberdeen, 27 February 2020. 

Participant, Panelist, "AI and Voice," “Human-Data Interaction - music, art & culture workshop” organised by Human-Data Interaction Research Network, Atau Tanaka (Goldsmiths, University of London), Tadeo Sendon (Music Hackspace), Alan Munro (University of Glasgow), Somerset House, London, 20 September 2019

Respondent, “Other Rooms” performance by Pamela Z, at SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, as part of the "Untraining the Ear: Listening Session," convened by SAVVY Contemporary in collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and CTM Festival, 26 May 2019. 

“On Non-Dialogic Voicing,” Voice and Environment, co-convened by Zeynep Bulut and J.Martin Daughtry at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, with the support of ICI Berlin, Queen’s University Belfast, and New York University, 18 March 2019.

Panelist, “Voice, Embodiment, and Neural Plasticity,” Post Stroke Music and Neural Plasticity, convened by Rosetta Life in collaboration with Belfast International Arts Festival, Sonic Arts Research Centre,  School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast, 17 October 2018. 

“A Case of Tactile Speech,” Errant Sound/Errant Bodies Project Space, Berlin, 19 August 2018. 

“Voicing Infrasound,” Sensing the sonic: vibratory histories of hearing differently (1800-now), convened by Melissa Van Drie and Melle Kromhout, with the support of the European Research Council Project “Sound and Materialism in the 19th century” directed by David Trippett. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge (UK), 15-16 June 2018.

 “Her Voice,”; revised title: "Her Voice in The Force of Things", The Audible Spectrum: Sound Studies, Hearing Culture and Sound Art,” organised by the Cité de la musique/Philharmonie de Paris and the H2H LABEX Research project “The factory of sound arts” (University of Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis). Convened by Bastien Gallet, Stéphane Roth, Matthieu Saladin, 7-9 June 2018. 

“Waste, Voice, Recycling: The Waste Land and Environmental Dialogue,” Research Colloquium, Department of Music, University of Oxford, 2 May 2017. 

“Last Breath, Sensing Life,” Research Seminar, Department of Music and Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, 8 March 2017. 

 “The Volume of Christine Sun Kim’s Nap Disturbance,” Space and Sonic Identities Seminar Series, convened by the Bartlett Sound Making Space Doctoral Network, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 2 March 2017.