Very few podcasts have grabbed my attention like Attention Lab. It's a 3-part series about reclaiming our attention in response to the multibillion dollar companies trying to harvest it. Read my interview with producer Sara McCrae today in the newsletter: fieldnoise.com/attention-pl...

If you need to escape somewhere in your headphones today, here's a list of audio documentaries, field recordings, and music that came out last year that I think can really take you places. These are some of my favorite listens of 2025. fieldnoise.com/field-noise-...

In today's newsletter, I muse on the relationship between nature and culture in terms of how we listen to the world, thanks to a wonderful children's book where a fox finds a radio and then starts to appreciate the sounds of the environment. Read / share / subscribe here—

I've been messing around with some Whisper-based transcription tools to make quick, free transcripts of audio files for a while now, and today I finally took the time to write up the workflow in my newsletter. If you want to nerd out on the command line, have at it!

Damn, I love Soft Cell. Discovering their weird and wonderful catalogue beyond their big hit completely rewired my brain in terms of what I thought "80s music" was or could be. Dave Ball was a synthesis and production genius.

It's not just that I wrote a newsletter about the piece I made for @audioflux.bsky.social — it's that I also figured out how to include an image on the link down there ⬇️ even though the image is not in the post itself. Small wins! Or, if you will, periodic triumphs… fieldnoise.com/new-work-per...

This, but for podcasts.

Took some time in the newsletter this week to reflect back on the WPR radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge. It was the first radio job I ever had, and it changed my life. fieldnoise.com/remembering-...

I'm getting my newsletter going again. It's going to be about sound and science and history and music. It will have recommendations, podcasts and otherwise. I'm self-hosting it because I hate Nazis and algorithmic feeds. If any of that speaks to you, let's jam: fieldnoise.com/field-noise-...

Today in retro technology / The Revenge of the 90s: the new Black Moth Super Rainbow album that came out today was released on vinyl, CD, and...MiniDisc.

Hey! Thrilled to share that my piece—about the Folkways record "Sounds of the Office"—is an @audioflux.bsky.social circuit select. Honored to be among this group of producers. In-person debut of the piece is on June 1st at @soundscene.bsky.social, and it will drop online a bit later. Stay tuned!

Came back from a run, opened my phone, and saw this. This letter is everything: the joy of running, the hardships of high school, the fact that what we are talking about is kids playing sports. Trans women are women, trans runners are runners, trans kids are kids.

Hey! I'm thrilled to be among this group of producers, and I wouldn't be here without the help of my awesome friends and collaborators: @sepulchra.bsky.social, Theo Balcomb, and Marc Bianchi. If you want to hear these pieces (and you do!), there is a listening party in June — details in the thread.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

This week's Song Exploder is a great glimpse into the nature of songwriting and collaboration. Gracie Abrams and Audrey Hobert are co-writers, roommates, and childhood friends, and the pure *fun* they have making music together is adorable and contagious. Check it: songexploder.net/gracie-abrams

I have loved the Camera Obscura song, “Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbroken,” since the moment I heard it, but just today I came across the song that it is obviously in conversation with: the 1984 Lloyd Cole song, “Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?” It’s great! music.apple.com/us/album/are...