Palgrave Studies in Sound is an interdisciplinary series devoted to the topic of sound with
each volume framing and focusing on sound as it is conceptualized in a specific context or …

Among performers and pedagogues of string instruments,“tone” is a term summoned often
and valued deeply, yet seldom defined. While many traditional teaching approaches regard …

This chapter offers a critique of traditional Western accounts of timbre to propose that,
instead of a secondary parameter subordinated to pitch and rhythm, timbre is a general …

This article examines the tensions and possibilities of audio drama in applied theatre and
qualitative inquiry. Drawing on our experiences of making participatory audio drama, we …

Voices play essential roles in human experience, and carry many kinds of meaning. At
present, voice production, acoustics, and perception are treated as separate, independently …

No scholarship yet exists on Erin Gee's extensive Mouthpieces catalogue, aside from her
own program notes and non-academic reviews of her work. My dissertation endeavors to …

Lorsqu'un philosophe, un artiste, un musicologue ou un érudit parle d'art, du beau ou
d'esthétique, il fait habituellement référence à des notions se voulant universelles qui …

In this text I invite you to join me in a series of voice lessons, where I shares stories from my
embodied experiences as a soprano, teacher, and researcher in the Western sociocultural …

We are living in the Anthropocene epoch, a time when music artists are truly shaping our
perceptions—from cultural norms to environmental consciousness. It is an exciting era for …

Avant-garde electronic music purports to be abstract rather than representational. We are
supposed to care only about sound qua sound, but what if the body is fundamentally audible …