Mack Hagood

Graham was such a blast to talk to—loved this conversation with a great multi-hyphenate artist!

Maurice Rocco and the Psychedelic Roots of Thai Music: Race, Queerness, and Urban Chang… With movie star looks and a raucous piano style, Maurice Rocco made a splash in the 1940’s, influencing future rock and rollers Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. By the 60s, however, he was a has-be...

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!

Cassette Theory: A Mixtape (Eleanor Patterson, Rob Drew, and Andrew Simon) Three top media scholars discuss the impact of the cassette tape in American and Egyptian music and culture.

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

Are AI art and music really just noise? Artist and theorist Eric Salvaggio explores the technical aspects of AI art, its impact on culture, and the 'age of noise' he says it has ushered in.

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YouTube video by Phantom Power Podcast Are AI art and music really just noise? (Eryk Salvaggio)

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.

Album cover of Chuck Mangione's Feels So Good. It displays a bearded, longhaired man in black fedora and red shirt, smiling and hugging a flugelhorn.

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

Portrait of self with fur hat and deflated snowman on ground

About to resurrect this motherfucker.

I interviewed Eryk for Phantom Power. Should drop by January.

YouTube video by Jan Swinburne GRANDillusions UNTITLED 1961

GRANDillusions UNTITLED 1961 a #soundimage homage to #agnesmartin #painting #music #ambient

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Amazon list of Boss music devices ends with a Boss slipper.

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?

Opinion | New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change (Gift Article) Unlike the other major cities that appear on lists of unsafe places, New Orleans has a striking competitive advantage.

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!

Would love to be added. Thanks!