Doctor Please, I Have a Digitally Altered Voice!: An Analysis of the Digitally Altered Voice in Joost Klein’s “Life Story” and “PTSD”
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2024-02-15
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Digital sounding voices are everywhere and can elicit strong feelings within its listeners. In this essay, I explore the digital alteration of the voice in Dutch musician Joost's "Life Story" and "PTSD" as a profound aesthetic choice which can best be understood as a manifestation of the metamodern oscillation of serious and non-serious. Firstly, I study how digital mediation affects the voice within a metamodern context. Explicitly digitally mediating the voice can cause feelings of insincerity. By viewing the digitally mediated voice from a metamodern perspective, I establish how it can also express profound and authentic feelings. This is expanded on through a close reading and close listening of Joost’s work. Within this thesis, I aim to add nuance to the already existing discourse on digital sounding voices, which currently mostly focuses on digital sounding voices as inauthentic and alienating.
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