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Sound Studies
Interviews with scholars of Sound Studies about their new books.
July 22, 2024
Jams Bond
In an unusual episode, we listen back to field recordings that co-host cris cheek made in 1987 and 1993 on the island of Madagascar. It’s a rich sonic…
July 16, 2024
Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence
Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, Voice, Slavery, an…
July 15, 2024
A Book Unbound
What would it be like if scholars presented their research in sound rather than in print? Better yet, what if we could hear them in the act of their r…
July 8, 2024
Breathing Together
Working across and among languages, media, and art forms, Caroline Bergvall’s writing takes form as published poetic works and performance, frequently…
July 1, 2024
Animal Control
This week, we examine the sounds humans make in order to monitor, repel, and control beasts. Author Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s Listen, We All Bleed is a cre…
June 24, 2024
A Drummer's Tale
Charles Hayward is one of the most propulsive, resourceful and generative rock-plus drummers of the past half-century. An influential percussionist, k…
June 17, 2024
Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s book Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production (Amsterdam UP, 2023) is an exhaustive at…
June 17, 2024
Test Subjects
Season Two erupts in our ears with a film-noir soundscape—an eerie voice utters strange and disjointed phrases and echoing footsteps lead to sirens an…
June 10, 2024
Screwed and Chopped
Since the 1990s, many of Houston’s African American residents have customized cars and customized the sound of hip hop. Cars called “slabs” swerve a s…
June 7, 2024
Vibe
In Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South (University of Mississippi Press, 2023), Corey J. Miles narrates how southern Black…
June 5, 2024
Blacksound
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States (U California Press, 2024) explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the r…
June 3, 2024
Data Streams
On July 18th this year, Teresa Barrozo‘s question — What might the Future sound like? — will be opened to global participation. We bring news of World…
May 27, 2024
Ears Racing
This episode, we talk with Jennifer Lynn Stoever–editor of the influential sound studies blog Sounding Out!–about her new book, The Sonic Color Line: …
May 20, 2024
Dirty Rat
This time we talk with a fascinating sound artist and composer Mack met at a recent meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. As h…
May 13, 2024
City of Voices
This episode we have a single longform interview with a media scholar of note–The New School’s Shannon Mattern. We have teamed up with Mediapolis, a j…
May 6, 2024
Dead Air
On our first episode of Phantom Power, we ponder those moments when the air remains unmoved. Whether fostered by design or meteorological conditions o…
April 2, 2024
Sounds As They Are
In a recording, what sounds count as music? Sounds made by a musician's body--including inhales, finger taps, and grunts--have for decades been dismis…
February 29, 2024
Sonic City
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-pro…
January 30, 2024
Transforming Noise
Today, the concept of noise is employed to characterize random fluctuations in general. Before the twentieth century, however, noise only meant distur…
December 31, 2023
Radiophilia
A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmiss…