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Participatory Sound Art

Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics

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Authors:
  1. Vadim Keylin

    1. Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Addresses a major gap in the current sound art scholarship
  • Offers a survey of participatory sound art from its origins in the historical avant-gardes
  • Contributes to the growing fields of both sound studies and participation studies

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sound (PASTS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Vadim Keylin
    Pages 1-19

  3. Histories

    • Vadim Keylin
    Pages 21-42

  4. Discourses

    • Vadim Keylin
    Pages 43-64

  5. Affordances

    • Vadim Keylin
    Pages 65-87

  6. Perspectives

    • Vadim Keylin
    Pages 89-113

  7. Gestures

    • Vadim Keylin
    Pages 115-135

  8. Conclusion

    • Vadim Keylin
    Pages 137-149

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-155
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About this book

This book addresses a major gap in sound art scholarship: the role of audience participation. It offers a survey of participatory sound art from its origins in the historical avant-gardes to the non-institutionalized forms of sonic creativity in contemporary digital culture. In doing so, it proposes an innovative theoretical framework for analysing such phenomena, rooted in Pragmatist aesthetics, affordance theory and postcritique. Combining artwork analyses with qualitative studies, it focuses on three principal aspects of participatory sound art: the ways the materialities of the artworks facilitate and structure the participatory processes; the interplay of the creative agencies of the artists and the participants; and the postcritical approach to sound art’s politics, unfolding through the participants’ affective gestures. In considering these multiple dimensions, this book contributes to the growing fields of sound studies and participation studies, as well as to curatorial practice regarding sound art and participatory art.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Vadim Keylin

About the author

Vadim Keylin holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University and is currently a research associate in the ERC project “Poetry in the Digital Age” (University of Hamburg). He has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on experimental musical instruments, interactive sound art and sound in participatory culture.




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Participatory Sound Art

  • Book Subtitle: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics

  • Authors: Vadim Keylin

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sound

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6357-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6356-0Published: 21 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-6357-7Published: 20 November 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5875

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5883

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 155

  • Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Media and Communication, Music, Sociology, general

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