Zeynep Bulut is a Lecturer in music at Queen’s University Belfast. Prior to joining the faculty at QUB, she was an Early Career Lecturer in music at King’s College London (2013–2017), and post-doctoral research fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (2011–2013). She received her PhD in critical studies/experimental practices in music from the University of California, San Diego (2011). Her research interests include voice and sound studies, experimental music, sound and media art, technologies of hearing and speech, voice and environment, and music and medicine.

Her first manuscript, titled, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin (under contract with Goldsmiths Press), explores the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin. Her articles have appeared in various volumes and journals including Perspectives of New Music, Postmodern Culture, and Music and Politics. Alongside her scholarly work, she has also exhibited sound works, composed and performed vocal pieces for concert, video, and theater, and released two singles. Her composer profile has been featured by British Music Collection. She is a certified practitioner of Deep Listening, and project lead for the research network, Music, Arts, Health, and Environment (MAHE) supported by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account at QUB.