All Episodes

The Talking Dead: Our Live Experiment with Instrumental Transcommunication

Analog Revolutionaries with Theodore Gordon

Animal Collective’s Geologist: Still Digging Up Sonic Gems

Tashi Dorji: The Radical Openness of Improvisation

Disquiet in Tehran (Siavash Amini)

Audiobook Superstar Robin Miles: The Full Interview

Noise, Tinnitus and Affect Theory: Marie Thompson Extended Interview Recast

Podcasting's Politics of Empathy with Jason Loviglio

Digital feeds, malnourished students

Did Moog ruin synths? Suzanne Ciani reveals analog's original sin

Anonymous Sounds: Library Music

William Basinski: From 'NASA Brat' to Space Cowboy

How to Listen Like a Fish with Marine Biologist Sophie Nedelec

Talking Back to the “The Oral Theory of Everything”

The Internet Promised Creative Freedom. What Happened?

What makes a podcast great? Legendary producer Julie Shapiro shows us.

Noise, power, and Minneapolis: Gabriel Mendel interview (Part 2)

Gabriel Saloman Mindel Pt. 1: Yellow Swans, Noise, and the Art of Pushing Boundaries

African Music Technology: Branding, Identity, and the Global Music Market w/ Kingsley Kwadwo Okyere, Louise Meintjes, and Reginold Royston

Irv Teibel’s Environments, AI Audio, and the Future of Listening w/ Machine Listening

Horror Film Sound Designer Graham Reznick on Crafting the Uncanny

Maurice Rocco: Race, Queerness, and Thai Music Culture w/ Benjamin Tausig

Phantom Power Trailer

Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier on Critical Listening (Ciritcal Listening By Liz Pelly, and Max Alper)

Radio Opera Redefined: Immersive Sound, Improvisation, and Sonic Freedom w/ Yvette Janine Jackson

The Global History of Cassette Culture: Bootlegging, Indie Rock, and the Media of the Masses w/ Eleanor Patterson, Rob Drew, and Andrew Simon

How Music Became an Instrument of War: Military Music, Morale, and the American War Machine w/ David Suisman

Remembering Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)

The Perfect Playlist Problem: Advertising, Ghost Musicians, and the Manipulation of Listeners w/ Liz Pelly

Navigating the Age of AI Noise: Art, Datasets, and the Cultural Impact of Generative Models w/ Eryk Salvaggio

Why We’re Obsessed with Podcasts: Genre, Intimacy, and Narrative Audio w/ Neil Verma

Second Line: Footwork in New Orleans (Lowlines by Petra Barran)

On the Borderlands of Sound: Loudness, Affect, and the Multisensory Experience of Listening w/ Michael Heller

Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect Theory, and the Limits of Acoustic Ecology w/ Marie Thompson

How Computers Found Their Voice: Film Sound, Computer Science, and Text-to-Speech w/ Benjamin Lindquist

Navigating the Publishing Industry: Trade Press, Book Proposals, and Author Platforms w/ Jane Von Mehren

How Sound Shaped the Modern Office: Acoustic Space, Architectural History, and Open Plan Working w/ Joseph L. Clarke

Mastering Audiobook Narration: Acting, Audiobook Technique, and Vocal Representation w/ Robin Miles

Why We Love Radio: Affect, Media History, and Radiophilia w/ Carolyn Birdsall

Cosmic Visions in Sound (The World According to Sound by Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett)

Listening to Tinnitus: Stories, Science, and the Lessons from a Life Lived with Constant Sound w/ Mack Hagood

From the Stage to the Page: Music, Memory, and the Evolution of the Rock Biography w/ Warren Zanes

Hacking Music and Media: Freeform Radio, Audience Agency, and Digital History w/ Elena Razlogova

Audiobooks and the New Reading Public: Disability, Neurodiversity, and Literary Criticism w/ Matthew Rubery

Going Public: Podcasting, Book Writing, and Humanities Outreach w/ Mack Hagood

A Philosophy of Echoes: Repetition, Response, and Relationality w/ Amit Pinchevski

John Cage and the Anechoic Chamber: Echoes, Silence, and Philosophies of Sound w/ Mack Hagood

The Promise and Peril of AI Voices: Custom Speech, Identity, and the Future of Music Creation w/ Steph Ceraso, and Hussein Boon

The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes: The Voice, Silence, and the Self w/ Brian Harnetty

Listening Deeply (extended interview excerpt): Field Recording, Soundwalking, and the Poetics of Place w/ Hildegard Westerkamp

The Sound World of Harriet Tubman: Music, Faith, and Resistance w/ Maya Cunningham

Listening Deeply: Field Recording, Soundwalking, and the Poetics of Place w/ Hildegard Westerkamp

The Making of a Sound Scholar: Rejection, Resilience, and Research w/ Jonathan Sterne

The Secrets of Next-Level Podcast Audio on Twenty Thousand Hertz w/ Dallas Taylor

How Data Shapes Our Listening: Algorithms, Technology, and Incommunication w/ David Cecchetto

Radio as Art and Activism: Feminist Radio, Community, and DIY Technology w/ Shortwave Collective

Behind the Scenes at Cirque du Soleil: Live Sound, Performer Anxiety, and Sonic Hierarchies in Touring Productions w/ Jacob Danson Faraday

Season Four Trailer

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture (Love is the Message by Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert)

The Internet’s Most Hated Song? Musicology, Misogyny, and Internet Fame Explored w/ Paula Harper

Voices Pt. 3: Rethinking Voice, Disability, and Sound Technology w/ Jonathan Sterne

Voices Pt. 2: Gender, Voice, and Podcasting w/ Stacey Copeland

Voices Pt. 1: Gender, Disability, and the Auditory Arena of the NFL w/ Travis Vogan, and Jonathan Sterne

The Making of Phantom Power: Academic Podcasting, Sonic Scholarship, and Audio Storytelling w/ Mack Hagood, Dario Llinares, and Lori Beckstead

Inside The World According to Sound: Exploring Micro Podcasts Narrative Critique, and Surround Sound Audio w/ Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett

Sonic Warfare and Animal Control (Re-Cast): Empathy and the Human-Animal Relationship in Sound Art w/ Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Robbie Judkins, and Colleen Plumb

Remembering R. Murray Schafer Pt.2: Criticism, Contradiction, and Cultural Impact w/ Jonathan Sterne, Mitchell Akiyama, and Hildegard Westerkamp

Remembering R. Murray Schafer Pt.1: Soundscape, Acoustic Ecology, and the Tuning of the World w/ Ellen Waterman, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Eric Leonardson

The Embodied Experience of Sound: Musique Concrète, Field Recordings, and Relational Listening w/ Lawrence English

Why Media Matters: The Overlooked Role of Sound, Comfort, and Control in Digital Life w/ Mack Hagood

Exploring the Avian Aerosphere: Bird Migration, Radio, and Eco-Sonic Storytelling w/ Jacob Smith

Communicating Across Distance: Field Recording, Loneliness, and Covid-19 w/ Kate Carr

The Art and Activism of Yoko Ono: Racim, Feminism, and Avant-Garde Music w/ Amy Skjerseth

Fracking, Forests, and he Art of Environmental Healing: Sound Walks, Silence, and Social Change w/ Brian Harnetty

How Voice Assistants Are Changing the Way We Play: Language, Technology, and Boardgames w/ Frank Lantz

Making Music in the Shadow of Censorship: Politics, Identity, and Experimental Music w/ Siavash Amini

How State-Owned Radio Shaped Australia’s Experimental Sound Art Scene: The Listening Room, and Sonic Innovation w/ Colin Black

Under Construction

Houston’s Slab Scene (Re-Cast): DJ Screw, Car Culture, and Chopped and Screwed Hip Hop w/ Langston Collin Wilkins

The Lost Sounds of Silent Cinema: Vaudeville, Magic Lanterns, and Movie Palaces w/ Rick Altman, and Eric Dienstfrey

How EDM and Pop Music Reflect Neoliberalism: Resilience, Melancholy, and the Beat w/ Robin James

Podcasting the Gothic: Frankenstein, Academia, and Critique w/ Anna M. Williams

The Woman Who Disrupted Violin Making: Stradivarius, Science, and Acoustic innovation w/ Craig Eley

Malagasy Music and Memory: Field Recordings, Cultural Encounters, and Postcolonial Listening w/ Chris Cheek

Reimagining Research: A Sonic Exploration of Radio Drama, Ecology, and Sound Art w/ Jacob Smith

The Power of Language and Belonging: Multilingual Poetry, Ritual, and Queer Feminist Politics w/ Caroline Bergvall

Sonic Warfare and Animal Control: Empathy and the Human-Animal Relationship in Sound Art w/ Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Robbie Judkins, and Colleen Plumb

The Experimental Pulse: This Heat, Camberwell Now, Collaborative Music, and Embracing Change w/ Charles Hayward

The Strange History of Auditory Projective Tests: Disability, Sonic Diagnosis, and the Invention of Psychological Disabilities w/ Mara Mills

Houston’s Slab Scene: DJ Screw, Car Culture, and Chopped and Screwed Hip Hop w/ Langston Collin Wilkins

Celebrating World Listening Day 2018: Global Acoustic Ecology, and Biosphere Soundscapes of the future w/ Leah Barclay and Teresa Barrozo

How Racism Shapes What we Hear: An American History of the Sonic Colour Line w/ Jennifer Stoever

Secret Soundscapes: Art That Brings the Sounds of Rats and the Biosphere Alive w/ Brian House

The Evolution of Urban Media: Sonic Communication from Caves to the Smart City w/ Shannon Mattern

Dead Air: Exploring Silence in Literature, Hurricanes, and Media w/ John Binguet, Rodrigo Toscano, and Chris Cheek