SPECTRES Volume 1V: A Thousand Voices

The voice is everywhere, infiltrating everything, making civilisation, marking out territories with infinite borders, spreading from the farthest reaches to the most intimate spaces. It can be neither reduced nor summarised. And accordingly, when taken as a theme, the voice is inexhaustible, even when seen in the light of its very particular relation with the sonic or the musical, as is the case in most of the texts collected in this volume. There is no point therefore in trying to circumscribe or amalgamate the multiple avatars of the voice. We must rather try to apprehend what the voice can do, to envisage its landscape, its potential effects.

François J. Bonnet
John Giorno
David Grubbs
Yannick Guédon
Lee Gamble
Sarah Hennies
Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix
Stine Janvin
Joan La Barbara
Youmna Saba
Akira Sakata
Pierre Schaeffer
Peter Szendy
Ghédalia Tazartès

Shelter Press 
English/ French
Softcover, 256 pages
135mm x 200mm