[Commlist] New book: Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics

Vadim Keylin is delighted to announce the publication of my book 
/*Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics 
*/(Palgrave Macmillan).

Publisher page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-6357-7

The 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.

Until December 21, the book can be purchased with a 20% discount using 
the code 2KbHh90AX1PdNT at checkout.


Endorsements:

"How exactly can listeners participate in sound art? Vadim Keylin 
explores this issue within contemporary aesthetics through an impressive 
series of analyses, through fieldwork, conceptual critique as well as 
through reflections on epistemologies, art history and media history. He 
proposes to conceptualize participatory sound art through a sonic 
pragmatism that suggests a stimulating interpretation and application of 
the notion of affordances in the field of sound studies. With Keylin's 
approach, works of sound art become consistently recognizable as 
scenarios for and of encounters."

*―Holger Schulze*, Professor of Musicology, Copenhagen University, Denmark

"It is always good to read how young, promising scholars contribute new 
insights to the prevailing sound studies discourse. Vadim Keylin’s 
Participatory Sound Art opens a field, a niche, within sound studies 
that so far hasn’t been explored systematically, namely the relationship 
between sound art and participatory art, thereby emphasizing sound art 
as a participatory art. Reflecting on many interesting sound artworks 
and bringing them into contact with theories grounded in pragmatism, 
Keylin has managed to enrich the already impressive theories on sound 
art with new concepts, new perceptions, and new approaches."

*―Marcel Cobussen*, Professor of Auditory Culture, Leiden University, 
The Netherlands


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