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Sound Studies
Interviews with scholars of Sound Studies about their new books.
November 4, 2024
R. Murray Schafer (1933-2021), Part 1
R. Murray Schafer recently passed away on August 14th 2021. If you’re someone who works with sound or enjoys sound art or experimental music–or you’ve…
October 28, 2024
On Listening In
Today, in honor of World Listening Day, we rebroadcast our story on renowned Australian sound composer, media artist and curator Lawrence English. Th…
October 21, 2024
Emotional Rescue
What can sound technologies tell us about our relationship to media as a whole? This is one of the central questions in the research of Phantom Power‘…
October 14, 2024
Lightning Birds
Today we present the first episode of Jacob Smith’s new eco-critical audiobook, Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves. In this audio-only bo…
October 7, 2024
For Some Odd Reason
Today’s guest, Kate Carr, is an accomplished sound artist and field recordist whose recent work grapples with issues of communication and longing—them…
September 30, 2024
Voice of Yoko
Today, Phantom Power‘s Amy Skjerseth brings us the story of perhaps the most famous vocal performance artist and avant-garde musician whose actual wor…
September 29, 2024
Listenings
Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illu…
September 23, 2024
Forest Listening Rooms
What would happen if you took red state rural voters on a walk into the woods with left-wing environmental activists and experimental music fans? Our …
September 16, 2024
Hey, Robot!
Today, we’re playing with voice assistants and thinking about the role of voices in gaming with our guest, game designer and NYU professor Frank Lantz…
September 9, 2024
A Life Based on an Experiment
Episode 21 presents a portrait of Iranian experimental composer Siavash Amini. His music, which moves seamlessly between contemplative ambience, menac…
September 2, 2024
What is Radio Art?
What is radio art? It’s a rather unfamiliar term in the United States, but in other countries, it’s a something of an artistic tradition. Today’s gues…
August 19, 2024
The Sounds of Silents
What did going to the movies sound like back in the “silent film” era? The answer takes us on a strange journey through Vaudeville, roaming Chautauqua…
August 12, 2024
Soar and Chill
Why do certain musical sounds move us while others leave us cold? Are musical trends simply that—or do they contain insights into the culture at large…
August 10, 2024
Interspecies Communication
In Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity (U Chicago Press, 2024), music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of atte…
July 29, 2024
Resonant Grains
In the 1950s, a schoolteacher named Carleen Hutchins attempted a revolution in how concert violins are made. In this episode, Craig Eley of the Field …
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…