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The Noise You Make Should Be Your Own
Before I suggested the name VIBE, even before the magazine was being called Volume, it was known as NOISE. I never liked that name. I mean, I knew what they were going for: “Noise” was meant to imply...
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Como Now?: Marketing “Authentic” Black Music
With all the excitement over the new release of Mavis Staples’s You Are Not Alone (Anti-, produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy), I can’t help but be skeptical of the outpouring of Indie love for the album,...
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Sound at ASA 2010
A Cast of the Statue of Liberty’s Ear Normally you would see a brand-new post from Sounding Out! on a Monday like this one, but this week I am traveling to the American Studies Association Conference...
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Classical Singing: Cradle for Sorrow and Healing
J. Stoever-Ackerman’s recent exploration of the complicated relationship between classical music and social class in America raised some provocative questions for me personally. I am a professional...
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Sound at MLA 2011
MLA 2011 offers almost an embarrassment of riches for the sound studies scholar in the new year, testifying to the remarkable recent growth of the field. I have scoured PMLA in order to bring you...
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“Sensing Voice”*
*a longer version of this piece is forthcoming in Senses & Society 6 (2), July 2011. Bathroom Recital 2007 In 2007, I received an invitation to a recital that would take place in my bathroom; the...
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Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #2: Building Intimate Performance Venues on the...
The podcast is (or, can be) an intimate performance venue on the internet because it allows you to whisper into the ears of your fans. It allows you to grow close to communities of listeners. And...
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Experiments in Agent-based Sonic Composition
John Cage’s “Music of Changes,” which was composed using a random component from the iChing. . I perform and write music, normally acoustic, and usually for a single guitar, harmonica, and voice. I am...
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“Everyone I listen to, fake patois. . .”
It may seem a little crazy to take Das Racist seriously. Their songs are deep in the realm of the ridiculous, but I can’t help but feel that “Combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell” is a commentary on how the...
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Further Experiments in Agent-based Musical Composition
Photo by whistler1984 @Flickr. Editor’s Note: WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST IS INTERACTIVE!!! This week’s post is especially designed by one of our regulars, Andreas Duus Pape, to spark conversation...
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Manufacturing Rebellion, Censorship in Music
As someone who actively self-identifies against the form of cinema, I sure write a lot about it. I saw Pirate Radio last Thursday and it was great! Here’s the plot: Set in 1966, a group of British DJs...
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Reading the Politics Of Recorded Sound
Just released this past month, Social Text 102: The Politics of Recorded Sound is the latest special issue to take the temperature of the field of sound studies. Answering the provocative question...
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From the Archive #1: It is art?
So it looks like concerns about truthiness and tape been with us a lot longer than all the press about Ke$ha’s recent beef with Britney’s lip-synching and Jay-Z’s self-declared (and apparently one-man)...
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Sounds of Home
Last month, I braved hail, snow, and just about every kind of plague-like spring weather to hear Karen Tongson’s talk at Cornell about her soon-to-be-released book, Relocations: Emergent Queer Suburban...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #26: Wobbling the Speakerspace
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Sounding Out! Podcast #27: Interview with Jonathan Sterne
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Revising the Future of Music Technology
This is the opening salvo in Sounding Out!‘s April Forum on “Sound and Technology.” Every Monday this month, you’ll be hearing new insights on this age-old pairing from the likes of Sounding Out!...
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This is Your Body on the Velvet Underground
“Everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.” Brian Eno’s remark about the Velvet Underground’s brilliant but commercially lackluster 1967 debut album was re-circulated widely last...
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Sounds of Science: The Mystique of Sonification
Welcome to the final installment of Hearing the UnHeard, Sounding Out!‘s series on what we don’t hear and how this unheard world affects us. The series started out with my post on hearing, large and...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #47: Finding the Lost Sounds of Kaibah
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Culture Jamming and Game Sound: An Interview with foci + loci
Guest Editors’ Note: Welcome to Sounding Out!‘s December forum entitled “Sound, Improvisation and New Media Art.” This series explores the nature of improvisation and its relationship to appropriative...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #50: Yoshiwara Soundwalk: Taking the Underground to the...
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Can You Hear What I Hear?
Recently I read Meta Wagner’s article on listening to music in public, “A Lament on the Deafening Silence of iPods.”Wagner reminds readers that there was a time where people actually listened to their...
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On Hand-Made Music
I’ve recently opened up a little online record shop focusing on what I like to call “Hand-Made” music. To me, that ranges from the DIY punk that I grew up with to the oldest kinds of rural music to...
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A Day at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex
When I went down to NYC at the beginning of the summer, I saw an ad for the John Lennon exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in Soho. The exhibit focuses on Lennon’s stay in New York and the...
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Gendered Ears
While there is a rich discussion in cultural studies about gendered representation in popular music, there remains very little about gendered listening experiences—or, more accurately—gendered...
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Juno and Antifolk: Pro-life?
This post is a bit out of date, considering that The Moldy Peaches were relevant about ten years ago, and that the movie Juno was released almost two years ago. The upswing to this is that if you...
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How not to listen to Lemonade: music criticism and epistemic violence
With the premier last month of Lemonade, her second visual album, Beyoncé didn’t make the world stop so much as she make it revolve: around her, around her work, around black women. For all of the...
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Gendered Sonic Violence, from the Waiting Room to the Locker Room
This past August 2016, professional “pick-up artist” Dan Bacon caused a stir with his article “How to Talk to a Woman Who is Wearing Headphones.” The article was published on TheModernMan, a site...
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Technological Interventions, or Between AUMI and Afrocuban Timba
Editors’ note: As an interdisciplinary field, sound studies is unique in its scope—under its purview we find the science of acoustics, cultural representation through the auditory, and, to perhaps...
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SO! Podcast #74: Bonus Track for Spanish Rap & Sound Studies Forum
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What is a Voice?
Welcome to Voices Carry. . . a forum meditating on the material production of human voices the social, historical, and political material freighting our voices in various contexts. What are voices?...
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Won’t Back Down: Tom Petty, Jason Aldean and Masculine Vulnerability
October 2017: a week after a Las Vegas gunman killed 58 people at an outdoor festival during a Jason Aldean set, Aldean squared up to the Saturday Night Live mic and soldiered through then-recently...
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SO! Amplifies: Memoir Mixtapes
. SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome! — “The mashup of the...
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Vocal Anguish, Disinformation, and the Politics of Eurovision 2016
Eurovision—that televisual song pageant where pop, camp, and geopolitics annually collide—started last week. This year’s competition is hosted in Tel Aviv, and continues a recent trend in the...
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Listen to yourself!: Spotify, Ancestry DNA, and the Fortunes of Race Science...
If you could listen to your DNA, what would it sound like? A few answers, at random: In 1986, the biologist and amateur musician Susumo Ohno assigned pitches to the nucleotides that make up the DNA...
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