@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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

I always imagined @mactra.bsky.social with Barry Gibb's style long hair and beard. Video podcasts ruin everything!

I am listening to the inspiring podcast with @eryk.bsky.social about the age of noise (or rather diffusion?).

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

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:

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.

Anyone else had this stuck in their head for the past 48 hours?

About to resurrect this motherfucker.

GRANDillusions UNTITLED 1961 a #soundimage homage to #agnesmartin #painting #music #ambient youtu.be/ddboMMhSnUg?...

Worst Final Boss ever.

I hate to think bluesky is going to make that same mistake but if they don’t have a proactive plan in place for bots flooding the zone w/shit we are all fucked. And since so many of y’all already left the other site, well… are you starting to see what that means? What the end informational goal is?

New Orleans has always been intimately acquainted with death—a psychological advantage for the embrace of climate realism.

I use parts of this film in the history section of my Smartphone and Society class. Highly recommend!

Very cool to see some scholarship on this South Vietnamese rock band, who performed for local youth and American GIs alike in the early 1970s.

Currently writing a script for the forthcoming podcast How to Listen. In this scene, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, describes "noise" as objective and "sound" as intersubjective. #noise #sound #zen

I went clubbing in New Orleans with Allen Ginsberg once in 1988. Producer Mark Bingham drove. I was just a kid who'd asked Ginsberg to sign my LP of HOWL at a reading. He later invited me back to his hotel but I politely declined. I was 18, he was 62. Different times!

ICYMI: Merch Table hypem.com/merch-table still works for turning Spotify playlists into lists of albums you can get on Bandcamp

If you've never tried Radio Garden, you're in for an adventure. It's the shortwave radio of our time!

Excited to share my new contrapuntal poem with you all! 🎙Listen to it here: Issue #11 stanzacannon.com/issues/issue... 'Writer's Block' stanzacannon.com/issues/issue... With thanks to EIC Andrew "Ink" Feindt 🙏🏻 #poetry #poem #spokenword #audio #PoetsOnBlueSky #PoetryCommunity #writersonbluesky

Just a reminder that this awesome virtual #gameaudio talk with Barney Oram (GoW Ragnarok, Halo Infinite, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart) is happening this coming Saturday 👾👾👾 #gamedev #sounddesign #fieldrecording #foley meetu.ps/e/NzvNC/XBbr...

bird sounds

It was Cincinatti, Ohio by the great band Wussy

🤞 robhorning.substack.com/p/blue-sky-m...

#academicSky, can u tell me about serving as an external PhD diss examiner in Australia? I've done it for universities in a few other countries and the amount of work/involvement really varies. Thanks!

Hi, I'm a scholar of sound and media. Working on a book titled The End of Listening: What We Lose When We Cancel Noise. I host Phantom Power, a podcast about sound. Work in sound production/art, acoustic ecology, experimental music or humanities? Lmk! #academicsky #sound #media #books #podcasts