Links to Open Access publications and self-archived files marked in green.
Monographs
Keylin, Vadim. Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics. Palgrave Macmillan (2023).
This 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.
Edited books and special journal issues
Keylin, Vadim (ed.). Sound in the (Post-)Soviet Realm. Journal of Sonic Studies 27 (2025).
Dürr, Rebecka, Kira Henkel and Vadim Keylin. Poetry, Music, and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlactions / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: neuere mediale Kostellationen. De Gruyter, 2025. [forthcoming]
Benthien, Claudia, Vadim Keylin and Henrik Wehmeier. Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook. De Guyter, 2025. [forthcoming]
Have, Iben and Vadim Keylin (eds.). Sound and Participation. SoundEffects vol. 9 iss. 1. (2020).
Articles
2025:
Keylin, Vadim and Benoît Maubrey. Aesthetics and Politics of Participation in Benoît Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures. Leonardo 58.1: 37-43.
“Songs of despair and freedom.” An Interview with Sashko Protyah. Journal of Sonic Studies 27.
Intermediality And Text-to-Sound Transmutations. Interview with Maria Vilkovisky and Ruthia Jenrbekova of krëlex zentre. Journal of Sonic Studies 27.
2024:
Dürr, Rebecka and Vadim Keylin. “Be {B}{t}. Be poet”: Beatboxing as a Poetic Device. In Literarische Organotechnik: Studien zu einer Diskurs- und Imaginationsgeschichte, edited by Lars Koch, Sarah Neelsen and Julia Prager: 239-255. De Gruyter.
Keylin, Vadim. “A Human Way to Talk”: Poetry and Synthetic Voice. In Proceedings of the 2023 Aarhus International Conference on Voice Studies, edited by Míša Hejná et al.: 79-83. De Gruyter/Sciendo.
Keylin, Vadim. KI-Lyrik aufführen: Ai-Da und Liza Gennart. In Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung, edited by Marc Matter , Henrik Wehmeier and Clara Cosima Wolff: 137-157. De Gruyter. [in German]
2023:
Keylin, Vadim. The lyric ear: On the intersubjective poetics of listening scores. Seismograf Peer 30.
Keylin, Vadim. Interactive and Participatory Sound. In The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality, edited by Jørgen Bruhn, Asun López-Varela Azcárate and Miriam de Paiva Vieira: 1115-1133. Palgrave Macmillan.
Keylin, Vadim. Creative Agencies in Participatory Sound Art: Two Case Studies. Organised Sound 28/1: 13-24.
2022:
Keylin, Vadim. I make noise therefore I am: Aesthetics of sonic experimentation in participatory art and culture. In Sonic Engagement: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Community Engaged Audio Practice, edited by Sarah Woodland and Wolfgang Vachon: 177-189. Routledge.
2021:
Keylin, Vadim. Sound Acts: Towards a Sonic Pragmatism. Sound Studies 7/1: 83-99.
2020:
Keylin, Vadim. Postcritical Listening: Political Affordances in Participatory Sound Art. Organised Sound 25/3: 353-361.
Keylin, Vadim. Crash, Boom, Band: Affordances for Participation in Sound Art. SoundEffects 9/1: 98-115.
2019:
Keylin, Vadim. Medialities of Participation in Sound Art. In Cultures of Participation: Arts, Digital Media, and Cultural Institutions, edited by Birgit Eriksson, Carsten Stage and Bjarki Valtysson: 129-146. Routledge.
2018:
Keylin, Vadim. Politics of Participation in Benoit Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures. In Invisible Places: Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place, Proceedings, edited by Raquel Castro and Miguel Carvalhais: 93-100. Invisible Places.
Keylin, Vadim. Sound Art as Participatory Practice and Institutional Critique. Practices and Interpretations 2/4: 19-30.
Keylin, Vadim. Sound Sculptures in Public Space: Benoit Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures. Urban Studies and Practices 2/4: 51-58. [In Russian]
2015:
Keylin, Vadim. Unauthored Music and Ready-Made Landscapes: Aeolian Sound Sculpture. Gli spazi della musica 4/2 (2015): 68-85.
Keylin, Vadim. Corporeality of Music and Sound Sculpture. Organised Sound 20/2: 182-190.
2014:
Keylin, Vadim. Electric Circuit as a Musical Instrument and a Graphic Score: Peter Vogel’s Sound Sculptures. Opera Musicologica 2/20 (2014): 39-50. [In Russian; English translation]