The Countertenor Jakub Józef Orlinski's Falsetto, Sex, Gender Listening, And the Usages of Mediatic Bodies

Abstract

The article investigates the performance of the falsetto ascending singer Jakub Józef Orlinski to elaborate ways to work on gender conflicts based on voice issues. Thus, it turns itself to the singer's media appearances and to how he is framed in media, discussing how hegemonic clashes over voice constitute his presence. In this process, debates on vocal classification, on body and mediatic technologies and on listening are assembled, pointing out how they constitute gender problems. Finally, it is reflected on how the voice is a technology by which we update ourselves as subjects, and it is demonstrated that voice can open bundles by which gender exposes itself as a continuous process of discursive and bodily practices. This process opens, in Orlinski’s case, spaces that emphasize the fabulation about the singer’s sexuality.