Becoming Audible

Becoming Audible Explores The Phenomenon Of Human And Animal Acoustic Entanglements In Art And Performance Practices. Focusing On The Work Of Artists Who Get Into The Spaces Between Species, Austin Mcquinn Discovers That Sounding Animality Secures A Vital Connection To The Creatural.to Frame His Analysis, Mcquinn Employs Gilles Deleuze And Flix Guattaris Concept Of Becoming-animal, Donna Haraways Definitions Of Multispecies Becoming-with, And Mladen Dolars Ideas Of Voice-as-object. Mcquinn Considers Birdsong In The Work Of Beatrice Harrison, Olivier Messiaen, Cleste Boursier-mougenot, Daniela Cattivelli, And Marcus Coates; The Voice Of The Canine As A Sacrificial Lab Animal In The Operatic Work Of Alexander Raskatov; Hierarchies Of Vocalization In Human-simian Cultural Coevolution In Theatrical Adaptations Of Franz Kafka And Eugene Oneill; And The Acoustic Exchanges Among Hybrid Human-animal Creations In Harrison Birtwistles Opera The Minotaur.