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About Mack Hagood
Mack Hagood is the Robert H. and Nancy J. Blayney Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Miami University, Ohio, where he studies digital media, sound technologies, disability, and popular music.
NBN Episodes hosted by Mack:
May 19, 2025
From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak
Today we learn how computers learned to talk with Benjamin Lindquist, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University’s Science in Human Culture …
May 12, 2025
Noise and Information in the Office
Ever wonder who’s to blame for the noise and distraction of the open office? Our guest has answers. Joseph L. Clarke is a historian of art and archit…
May 5, 2025
Robin Miles: Talking Books
Today we bring you a masterclass in audiobook narration and acting with acclaimed actor, casting director, audiobook narrator and audiobook director, …
April 28, 2025
Radiophilia
Today’s guest is Carolyn Birdsall, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. If you’re a scholar of sound or radio, you likely kn…
April 21, 2025
Cosmic Visions in Sound
Today we share a podcast episode on the visual epistemology of astronomy by our friends at The World According to Sound. What kind of knowledge do we …
April 14, 2025
Tinnitus Stories
Today Mack talks about one of his oldest companions, the tinnitus that lives rent-free in his head. Tinnitus can be annoying, for sure–and for some pe…
April 7, 2025
Warren Zanes: Rockstar Biographer
Warren Zanes is a “rockstar biographer” in more ways than one: he has experienced life as a rockstar, a biographer, and a biographer of rockstars. Whe…
March 31, 2025
Making Radio History
Elena Razlogova is an Associate Professor of History at Concordia University. She is the author of The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the American …
March 24, 2025
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the history and theory of the medium. Audiobooks are having a moment—…
March 17, 2025
A Philosophy of Echoes
We spend our 50th episode (the last of this season) with communication theorist Amit Pinchevski. Amit’s recent book Echo (MIT Press, 2022) explores it…
March 10, 2025
John Cage
Today we explore the mythology around John Cage’s visit to the anechoic chamber. The chamber was designed to completely eliminate echoes. Ironically, …
March 3, 2025
Sonic AI
Today we hear two scholars reading their recent work on artificial intelligence. Steph Ceraso studies the technology of “voice donation,” which provid…
February 24, 2025
Words and Silences
Brian Harnetty’s recent record, Words and Silences, takes voice recordings made by the famed American Trappist monk Thomas Merton and sets them within…
February 17, 2025
The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman
Just in time for Black History Month, we share an episode we’ve been excitedly working on for a number of months now. Ethnomusicologist Maya Cunningha…
February 10, 2025
Hildegard Westerkamp
Today we speak to Hildegard Westerkamp, the pioneering composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. The centerpiece of all of her work is a close atten…
January 27, 2025
Spacing Out with Dallas Taylor of 20,000 HZ
Today we talk to Dallas Taylor, host of the most popular sound podcast on the planet, Twenty Thousand Hertz. I like to think our show sounds pretty go…
January 20, 2025
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
If you walk into David Cecchetto‘s classroom, you might find people wearing audio devices that simulate hearing with a thousand-foot wide head. Or gad…
January 13, 2025
(Re)Making Radio with the Shortwave Collective
The Shortwave Collective describe themselves as “an international feminist group using the radio spectrum as artistic material.” I was first intrigued…
January 6, 2025
In One Ear, Out The Other
On today’s show, we address a performer’s nightmare—the nightmare of not being able to hear yourself onstage. My guest is ethnomusicologist Jacob Dans…
December 30, 2024
Fela Kuti and the Black Atlantic
This summer, sound artist and “guerrilla academic” Ben Coleman got in touch to say how much he enjoys Phantom Power. He also suggested we check out an…
December 23, 2024
Awfully Viral
It’s summer and we are busy working on episodes for our fourth season. We’ve also rebuilt our website–check out the the fabulous new phantompod.org. T…
December 16, 2024
Voices Part 3: Dork-O-Phonics
Jonathan Sterne is one of the most influential scholars working on sound and listening. His 2003 book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Rep…
December 9, 2024
Voices Part 2: The Sound of My Voice
In part two of our three-part series “Voices,” we feature an exciting new voice in the world of sound studies, Stacey Copeland. In part one last mon…
December 2, 2024
Voices Part 1: Hut-Hut-Hike
In this first episode of a three-part series called Voices, we’re listening to the sound of American football—specifically the role of voices in the N…