# Title - Voluminous bodies - Knowing and inhabiting with your voice - Amplifying a collective female voice - The sounds of - feminism - Amplified voices - Embodied streaming/amplification - The volume of female voices - Voluminous female voices # Transmitting ## Bibliography - Inside/ Media: Voices of the Absent, Antinomies of Transmission - Rose Gibbs, Speech Matters: Violence and the Feminist Voice (2016) - Federici, S. B. (2014) Caliban and the witch. 2., rev. ed. New York, NY: Autonomedia. - Ernst, W. (2016) ‘Experiencing Time as Sound’, in Chronopoetics. London ; New York: Rli, pp. 99–121 (102-111). - Berry, D. (2011) ‘Real-Time Streams’, in The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age. 2011 edition. Basingstoke New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 142–171. - Tetsuo, K. (no date) ‘Minima Memoranda: a note on streaming media’. Available at: http://anarchy.translocal.jp/non-japanese/minima_memoranda.html (Accessed: 12 October 2018). # monstrosity ## Bibliography? - ? Fasbinder, F. (2017) Use These 3 Vocal Techniques to Command the Room Like Margaret Thatcher and Obama, Inc.com. Available at: https://www.inc.com/fia-fasbinder/science-shows-people-respond-to-stronger-deeper-voices-how-to-train-your-voice-like-margaret-thatcher-obama.html (Accessed: 4 January 2019). - my text on sound acts in victoria - 667: Wartime Radio (2019) This American Life. Available at: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/667/transcript (Accessed: 5 February 2019). *A very recent example of how men were annoyed by women's voices is the abhorrence that Ernest Hemingway had for the voice of Gerdrude Stein [his words]. He would judge her for her big physical size and her monstrous voice that could not be tolerated.[Carson talks about his feelings for being in the margin, feelings of alienation]. ALIENATION-because uf fear of primitive stage* # The house-wifi-zation of the wifi # Let’s Talk About Unspeakable Things (conclusion) Marginalized modes of address share concerns that seem uninteresting for Western, formal, civilized society, which supports a democracy rooted in the politics of Ancient Greece. Because of their disparity, they are suppressed and accused as ugly forms, then filtered and censored before they being expressed in public. They share unfiltered, unedited messages that skip the rational sphere of speech. From my perspective, the medium used by these modes reflects their character. They are based on instant and urgent communication, liveness and a guerilla approach (from Multiplication...). Today, streaming media is used constantly by protesters or citizens to autonomously broadcast news and avoid government censorship. Streaming media is characterized by the distribution of unfiltered data, the sense of liveness and the continuity (direct distribution) of the message. In this essay I wanted to highlight how the use of streaming media and the concept of streaming in general can be related to these 'ugly' forms of mediation. How these kind of media transmit 'ugly' things, according to a rational society, and also, that marginalized people need this media to communicate, to establish their own voices, and to find space for their own desires. These ugly things may subvert, also, the formal society. I think that the acceptance of continuity and direct mediation can facilitate more democratic processes. As "the prime task of democratic politics is not to eliminate passions or to relegate them to the private sphere in order to establish a rational consensus in the public sphere. Rather, it is to 'tame' those passions by mobilizing them towards democratic designs" (Mouffe, 2013). Focusing more on the media that allow/facilitate this process to happen can open possibilities and alternatives of democratic processes. 'Embodied streaming' suggests resistance, with our unfiltered/uncontrollable mediated present selves/bodies. The association of the female voice with bestiality and disorder justifies the tactic of patriarchal culture to ‘put a lid’ on the female mouth since the ancient times. Different mechanisms have been developed to exclude specific forms of address from the public that are based on complicated power relations. Collective and female vocalizations are perceived as threats for the society and are undergoing filtration and 'normalization'. The mediation of all these marginalized forms of voicing (see "Monstrosity..." ) is happening in conditions that escape the traditional ways of the main public platform, which is male and expert dominated. The collective or individual concern of the ones that lack power is spread through different ways of mediation of their voice that overpass the mainstream and dominant modes. In my essay I separated the examples of amplification and multiplication but in conclusion these two terms are easily mixed together. All of them have in common the localization, the small scale, the refuse of prohibition and specialization, the participation and presence of people and temporariness. In this essay I will present examples of such practices. But they also have in common the spirit of oral cultures that are based on presence and vocal expression though they exist in a contemporary western context that differs from them. As Ong (2002, pg.13) says, “[a]t the same time, with telephone, radio, television and various kinds of sound tape, electronic technology has brought us into the age of 'secondary orality'” NO NEW POINTS Re-considering the speech: in ancient world it is considered to be a rational form of address. What does this mean when I talk about the female voice and speech. The feminists were re-appropriating the speech. collective-female vs individual empowerment in democracy rethinking this collective voice in the current media ecology the practices of female voices (ololyga)-second chapter in relation to the technical familiriaty and tools of mediation that I develop further in third chapter - ?Donna Haraway. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988) ## The oxymoron of democracy Transcriptions Interviews "oxymoron of democracy" technologies and nations that filter the unspeakable *"Celebrities, politicians and organizers of events (...) soon discovered that streaming services offered by Ustream and the other leading start-up provider, Livestream, could help expand their audience online. Now, the huge amount of user-generated live video produced by the Occupy Wall Street movement has delivered what could be a watershed moment for these companies, potentially helping them gain the audience needed to become viable businesses" (Preston, 2011). But other businesses found live streaming successful after that, like Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and users distribute easily live videos from terrorist attacks or demonstrations.* (Preston) "Each bodies can communicate in the resonance. Resonance does not exchange information but synchronizes between bodies." ololyga _the use of media as an individualistic approach _individual empowerment streaming media ecologies silencing censorship_ "Point A: live streaming as a rabid and urgent communication of public moments" "Mobile technologies and networks change our everyday experience of places" streaming media brussels "Returning back to radio, Kanouse refers to the state regulations imposed on radio and specifically on FRC (Federal Radio Comission) in United States that restricted access to airwaves and permitted licensed transmissions only in low frequencies, so there will be no interferences with commercial frequencies. That had as a result the creation of a “public body” in the name of a homogenous public and the radio’s monopolization by mainstream entertainment and political commentary." (Kanouse, pg. 89?) ##point B: restrictions and surveillance in european countries on public assemblies.? legal issues and restrictions of radio The use of communication technologies and social media in movements and public speeches has contributed to their preservasion and their distribution. According to Sassen (2012, p.) in movements like #occupy these technologies were intensively discussed concerning their unrealised potentials. There is a confusion between the logic of the technology designed by the engineers and the ones of the user. Facebook for example is used for spreading the word of very diverse collective events even if they have different aims and ideologies, but they focus in communicating rapidly something. She proposes to see this “electronic interactive domain” as a part of the larger ecologies beyond its technicality and redefine them more conceptually. “Radio and television have brought major political figures as public speakers to a larger public than was ever possible before modern electronic developments. Thus in a sense orality has come into its own more than ever before.” (Ong, p. 135). While a public speech can be "amplified" online, the use of any sound amplification equipment in the physical space (squares, streets) is not always permitted. That makes the public space a primitive space for oral communication.