Norie Neumark

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Norie Neumark is a sound/media artist and theorist, based in Melbourne, Australia.  Her sound studies research is currently focused on voice and the new materialist turn. Her writing on voice includes Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media (MIT Press, 2010), lead editor and contributor, as well as a forthcoming monograph, Voicetracks – voice, media, and media arts in the posthumanist turn (MIT Press, 2016). Her collaborative art practice with Maria Miranda (www.out-of-sync.com) has been commissioned and exhibited nationally and internationally. She is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne. She is the founding editor of international peer-reviewed journal, Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts http://unlikely.net.au/.

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  • Mapping Soundfields: A User’s Manual (2015) author(s): Norie Neumark published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    This paper was written as a keynote address for ESSA 2014, Mapping the Field, where the conference organizers asked me to reflect on my own and others’ journeys between sound theory and sound practice. As a live presentation, focused on voice, my aim was to speak in a way that would invoke the journey and invite the audience to join me. To do this, I both took literally the conference’s trope of mapping, and also, in terms of style, wrote/spoke in a performative mode that does not always translate easily into a written form. While I have adapted that address for written publication here, I have chosen to leave some traces of the aural mode, because in my view it speaks to the specific task of evoking a (theoretical and practical) journey. I have also retained the voice of situated knowledge, even if I have curbed some of its more poetic and emphatic spoken moments, because it resonates with the aim of reflecting on my own and others’ journeys, as I hope will unfold in the paper below.
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