Vocal Streams
Vocal Streams is a compendium of ten years of work on vocal performances, workshops and theoretical research, as well as anatomical and electronic technical development. By exploring the knowledge that ancestral chanting techniques have in common with metaphysics and cybernetics theory, the voice emerged as a transpersonal and cosmic entity. This knowledge has been developed and explored physically and electronically (through software and electronic experimentation) in individual and collective environments in recent years. The book presents cyber-ancestral speculative theories, personal chronicles, philosophical essays and practical exercises for you to try. The aim is to create spaces and practices that encourage vocal imagination, experimentation and ecstasy.
In Vocal Streams, Agustín Genoud explores the voice as a living field. Drawing on decades of performance, workshops, and theoretical inquiry, he reimagines vocality by tracing unexpected connections between the human body and the spaces, machines, and histories that shape the voice.
Blending essay, theory, autobiography, and practical exercises drawn from his Trans-Synthetic Vocal Workshops, the book follows the voice through bodily organs, resonant caves, microphones, ancestral architecture, animal songs, and AI-generated voices. Along the way, it asks where voices begin and end, how they shape the boundaries between inside and outside, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the voice as exclusively human. At once intimate and speculative, Vocal Streams is both a meditation on singing and a practical invitation to sing.
You can get the book at Contingent Sounds for international shipping and at Zabriskie for Berlin / Germany.
Published by Contingent Sounds, in May 2026. English | 14,8 x 21 cm | 166 pages. ISBN 978-3-912778-00-7
