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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity Alexander G. Weheliye Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work,…
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Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture Frances Dyson Sounding New Media examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound,…
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What’s the Matter with Today’s Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard Leigh Landy A study of contemporary music based on the premise that it is suffering from a distinct lack of attention. It inspects and evaluates what is happening to musical experimentation, where things…
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Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer Trevor Pinch & Frank Trocco Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new–an extraordinary rarity…
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Listen: A History of Our Ears Peter Szendy In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but…
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Listening (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) Jean-Luc Nancy In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? Can philosophy…
