@mactra.bsky.social goes in on the tired/lazy overuse of McLuhan (and Ong) and offers a long-overdue replacement syllabus (links to earlier posts/pods in this post) www.mackhagood.com/media-beyond...
Wearing a wetsuit, marine biologist Sophie Nedelec drives a motorboat on calm seas with an island in the background.
Do fish have ears? How does aquatic hearing differ from ours? To save the planet, do we need to learn to listen like the fishes? Today's Phantom Power guest is marine biologist and bioacoustics expert Sophie Nedelec. #sound
www.mackhagood.com/how-to-liste...
B's owned and liked both. The 1s battery died, so refurb maybe risky? 2s have noise cancellation and different ear hangers--heard mixed reviews of both. You're an ear hanger guy?
Happy TACO Tuesday!
An old "theory of everything" seems to be everywhere. Media scholars left it for dead decades ago. Reporters keep giving it new life. What is "the Great Divide" and how does it hold us back from understanding our digital dilemma?
www.mackhagood.com/oral-residue...
Image from Al Jazeera: a Minneapolis protester blows a whistle in the face of ICE's Gregory Bovino.
This week on Phantom Power: Yellow Swans' Gabriel Mindel on #sound, power, and Minneapolis. His research and criticism on noise, protest, and settler-colonialism couldn't be more relevant.
www.mackhagood.com/podcast/nois...
@mactra.bsky.social From white noise apps and noise-cancelling headphones to tinnitus and sound therapy, Mack helped me understand the complex relationship between media, technology, and the human need to tune in (or out).
www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mac...
Mack Hagood How We Cancel the Noise: Sound, Tech, and Attention Conversaitons with Musicians with Leah Roseman. Photo of Mack Hagood
I really enjoyed this opportunity to speak with Mack Hagood, author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control, to explore how we use sound to manage our minds, moods, and modern lives. 🎧 Listen now and rethink the sounds you live with. www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mac...
@mactra.bsky.social
Graham was such a blast to talk to—loved this conversation with a great multi-hyphenate artist!
Did an episode of the podcast Phantom Power which you can enjoy here:
blubrry.com/phantompod/1...
@mactra.bsky.social , who runs it, is a sound studies legend and wonderful guy. I kept forgetting we were recording because I just really like talking to Mack.
Ben, the pleasure was mine! It was a fantastic conversation that I’m glad we documented for the ages!
As a long-time listener of @mactra.bsky.social’s "Phantom Power" podcast, it was an honor to have the opportunity to explore Egypt's cassette culture with a couple of colleagues on an episode that takes the form of a mixtape. phantompod.org/cassette-the...
It’s like watching a troop of chimpanzees smashing a watch
On Friday, I dropped by #CBC studios in #Edmonton to talk about #SiriusXM and subscription music listening, and the book launch for Music In Orbit, taking place tomorrow at Audreys Books at 7pm.
Event details here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...
Folks mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne may enjoy revisiting his chats with @mactra.bsky.social. Jon's insatiable curiosity, passion, humor, and general joie de vivre are on full display.
phantompod.org?s=sterne
Just saw someone reading one on a plane two days ago.
I always imagined @mactra.bsky.social with Barry Gibb's style long hair and beard. Video podcasts ruin everything!
If only I could grow chest hair like that!
I feel like I’ve heard the same error but it must’ve been a different audiobook.
Book title?
I am listening to the inspiring podcast with @eryk.bsky.social about the age of noise (or rather diffusion?).
You were a Mermaid denizen? When did you live in NOLA? We probably rubbed elbows
My podcast about #sound + #audio, Phantom Power, recently dropped an excellent interview with @eryk.bsky.social on #AI in art, music, and culture. In the pod app of your choice or on YouTube.
youtu.be/d6CXBZ2eAAU?...
#soundstudies, #soundart, #mediastudies
Publishers Marketplace announcement: "Miami University professor of media and communications and author of HUSH Mack Hagood‘s THE END OF LISTENING: WHAT WE LOSE WHEN WE CANCEL NOISE, about the unintended consequences of the rise of "the orphic industries"—from white noise machines and noise-canceling headphones to nature sound apps and in-ear, AI-driven "hearables"—whose stories raise urgent ethical, political, and societal questions, not the least of which is whether the very technologies we rely on to help control our stress-inducing environments might be eroding our emotional resilience and connection to society, to Penguin Press, at auction."
My next book, The End of Listening, is now under contract with Penguin Press!
We'll meet the developers of emerging technologies intended to give us complete control of the sounds around us. The dream of vanquishing noise is as old as antiquity--but what would it mean to actually succeed?
How terrible. I greatly appreciate Nicolas's work — including these two books I have in my own collection:
So it’s a white noise chamber as well?
It looks rather… porous?
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
