When the COVID-19 global pandemic began, news reports and studies throughout the world began citing a lot of sound-based statistics: drastic reductions in noise pollution in urban centres, AI rec...
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Fund...
In summer 2021, sound artist, engineer, musician, and educator Johann Diedrick convened a panel at the intersection of racial bias, listening, and AI technology at Pioneerworks in Brooklyn, NY....
. In summer 2021, sound artist, engineer, musician, and educator Johann Diedrick convened a panel at the intersection of racial bias, listening, and AI technology at Pioneerworks in Brooklyn, NY....
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! — Conceptual...
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“A focus on listening shifts the idea of freedom of speech from having a platform of expression to having the possibility of communication” (K. Lacey) One of the biggest social media event o...
Welcome to Next Gen sound studies! In the month of November, you will be treated to the future. . . today! In this series, we will share excellent work from undergraduates, along with the pedagog...
For a number of semesters, I invited composition students to explore the idea of using the mixtape as a lens for envisioning a writing assignment about themselves. Initially called “The Mixtape...
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: SO! Podcast #78: Ethical Storytelling in Podcasting SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST Here at Sounding Out! we t...
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Education is never politically neutral. Many of us advocate for social justice when we’re outside of the classroom but struggle to continue that work inside as well, especially with issues that...
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I developed the text I recite in this post as the theoretical framework for an article I’m working on about audio compression. As I was working on the article, I wondered about the role of gend...
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**This post was co-authored by Marit J. MacArthur and Lee M. Miller Like it or not, we are now accustomed to contemporary pop vocalists manipulating their voices using Autotune and other tools or...
Suddenly we heard a Tereng! tereng! teng! teng! We looked round, and now found the reason why the postilion had not been able to sound his horn: his tunes were frozen up in the horn, and came out...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the second installment in the “DH and Listening” blog series for World Listening Month, our annual forum that prompts readers to reflect on what it means to listen...
Editor’s Note: Today we start off a series, a propos for World Listening Day 2016 on digital humanities and listening. As I mentioned in my Call for Abstracts in March, this forum considers the...
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Each of the essays in this month’s “Medieval Sound” forum focuses on sound as it, according to Steve Goodman’s essay “The Ontology of Vibrational Force,” in The Sound Studies Reader,...
A text arrives and the buzz of a cell phone jolts you from your idle thoughts. The sound–like an alarm, another kind of bell to mark out the day–shifts you from one audition to another. The s...
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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! Thank you to...
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! — Inspired by...
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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! — This Novemb...
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! — I founded t...
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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! — Several yea...
klatsch KLAHCH , noun: A casual gathering of people, esp. for refreshments and informal conversation (Dictionary.com) Dear Readers: Fall is almost upon us and the SOCK is back! Today’s...
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klatsch KLAHCH , noun: A casual gathering of people, esp. for refreshments and informal conversation (Dictionary.com) Dear Readers: ¡Regina Bradley, Presente! —J. Stoever-Ackerman, ...
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Last month, T.M. Luhrmann compared the experience of reading a written book versus listening to books in the New York Times article “Audiobooks and the Return of Storytelling.” Lurhmann poin...
klatsch KLAHCH , noun: A casual gathering of people, esp. for refreshments and informal conversation (Dictionary.com) Dear SO! Community: Our SOCK this month comes to us from Mike D’E...
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Happy new year, dear Sounding Out! readers! Early January brings about New Year’s resolutions, specials on bins for holiday ornaments, Three Kings’ Day, and our yearly MLA sound studies panel...
klatsch KLAHCH , noun: A casual gathering of people, esp. for refreshments and informal conversation (Dictionary.com) Dear Readers: It’s a new year, and the SOCK returns with our now...
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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: War of the Worlds Revisited (Part 1) SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST In case you missed our special “War of the W...
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“It’s a city, not a cemetery. You can’t tell everybody to go around wearing earplugs.” Ex-New York City Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern, quoted in “Many Pleas for Quiet, but City Stil...
klatsch KLAHCH , noun: A casual gathering of people, esp. for refreshments and informal conversation (Dictionary.com) Dear Readers: Today’s Sound Off!//Comment Klatsch question comes ...
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Happy SO! Blog-o-Versary 4.0 to readers, writers, and supporters! Before I once again have the privilege of counting down some of the blog’s many blessings, I want to extend a big welcome to ou...
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Listen. I’m hearing Shakespeare. Taking four of Shakespeare’s tragedies (Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear), I hear Shakespeare in and around another anachronistic soundscape – the blues....
https://soundstudiesblog.com/2013/04/18/sounding-shakespeare-in-seoul/
**Co-authored by Emmanuelle Sonntag and Bronwen Low Are you listening? Because sound specialist Julian Treasure argues, “We are losing our listening” due to the invention of multiple methods ...
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As the practice of sound design becomes ever more refined as a key factor in the immersive aspects of gameplay, it is essential to develop a conceptual vocabulary of the ways that sound is implem...
For the 2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies meeting in Chicago, Sounding Out! enlisted one of our favorite guest writers, radio scholar Neil Verma (whom you’ll remember from our excell...
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In September of 2012, the team behind the SoundBox Project hosted an event online called #Tweetasound. Supported by the Sounding Out! blog and with help from many audiophiles on Twitter, the even...
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