Gender is usually perceived through a visual lens: through a body’s anatomy and surface; through how someone looks or
moves inside a space. As it is an underresearched area, I would like to locate gender inscriptions through sound:
I wonder in which ways we can hear and deconstruct gender essentialism, if we approach it through a voice produced by somebody’s
phonatory system, or through a system of sounds emerging from a body’s relation to a technological artefact - like a guitar -.
Alongside this, I wonder in which ways a guitar located inside a patriarchal, anthropocentric and ableist culture
orients a body into cis-heteronormativity and in which ways can a guitar support a fluid gender expression?
What are the consequences of technically classifying one’s voice to a gender binary depending on their vocal pitch?
In which ways can a voice deconstruct these technical classifications, while connecting to the here and now of its
embodied situation? What can be the processes that help to caress and amplify queer voices?
