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"VOICE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, a new anthology edited by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo Van Leeuwen from MIT Press, takes stock of the voice's various transformations in the arts in the wake of the technological innovations of the digital age, and the ways in which artists anticipated these changes. One might expect musings on Barthes, man vs. machine, hauntology, linguistics or body politics, and those are all here; but there is also a refreshing and suitably wide-ranging cross-section of pop cultural examples and namechecks (Wolfman Jack, Portishead, Winnie the Pooh, BioShock, Meshuggah). Beyond its interdisciplinary parameters, the more theory-oriented papers are counterbalanced by an experimental essay (Theresa M. Senft's "Four Rooms", which juxtaposes phone sex, cancer care tapes, a voice recognition program, and Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting in a Room"), a poem (Mark Amerika's "Professor VJ's Big Blog Mashup"), and a meditation (Michael Taussig's "Humming"). The multiplicity of forms and inclusion of writerly as well as scholarly voices create an appropriately reflexive resonance."