-
Archives
- May 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- September 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- September 2019
- July 2019
- May 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
-
Meta
Category Archives: Podcast Episodes
Yvette Janine Jackson: Decomposing Boundaries
Yvette Janine Jackson is a composer and sound artist who creates immersive compositions, drawing on a wide array of genres and life experiences. Her compositions have been commissioned internationally for a variety of mediums. Yvette Jackson often works in a … Continue reading
Cassette Theory: A Mixtape (Eleanor Patterson, Rob Drew, and Andrew Simon)
Today we present a cassette theory mixtape. Three excellent scholars help us understand consumer-focused magnetic tape and its history as a medium for the masses: Eleanor Patterson, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Auburn, whose new book just won the … Continue reading
How Music Became an Instrument of War (David Suisman)
University of Delaware historian David Suisman is known for his research on music and capitalism, particularly his excellent book Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music (Harvard UP, 2009), which won numerous awards and accolades. Suisman’s new book, Instrument … Continue reading
Are AI art and music really just noise? (Eryk Salvaggio)
In this episode, host Mack Hagood dives into the world of AI-generated music and art with digital artist and theorist Eryk Salvaggio. The conversation explores technical and philosophical aspects of AI art, its impact on culture, and the ‘age of … Continue reading
Podcasting’s Obsession with Obsession (Neil Verma)
Today we discuss how narrative podcasts work, the role they’ve played in American culture and how they’ve shaped our understanding of podcasting as a genre and an industry. Neil Verma’s new book, Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession, offers a … Continue reading
Second Line: Footwork in New Orleans (Lowlines by Petra Barran)
A new podcast called Lowlines takes us to a New Orleans Second Line, the brass band tradition that comes out of Black funeral processions and social clubs and is known not only for the power of the music but for amazing dancing known as footwork. Continue reading
Beyond Listening: The Hidden Ways Sound Affects Us (Michael Heller)
Dr. Michael Heller examines sonic experiences that go “beyond listening.” Moments when sound overpowers us. When sound is sensed more in our bodies than in our ears. When sound engages in crosstalk with our other senses. Or when it affects us by being inaudible. Continue reading
Noise and Affect Theory (Marie Thompson)
Feminist sound scholar and musician Marie Thompson is a theorist of noise. She has also been one of the key thinkers in integrating the study of sound with the study of affect. Continue reading
From HAL to SIRI: How Computers Learned to Speak (Benjamin Lindquist)
Learn how computers learned to speak with computer historian Benjamin Lindquist. Ben tells the the fascinating backstory to HAL 9000 and the strange the analog history of digital computing. Continue reading
Publishing for Nonfiction Authors (Jane Von Mehren)
Jane Von Mehren, Senior Partner at Aevitas Creative Management and a former Senior Vice President at Random House, explains how to find a literary agent, how to write a query letter to an agent, and how to craft a book proposal that your agent can shop to publishers. Continue reading