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Phantom Power — 88 episodes
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
EMaurice 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
EHow 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