Ernst Karel

We luv them Khalils 👯‍♂️

announced for Sundance, a film I’m contributing sound design for:

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

by Adam Khalil & Zack Khalil

festival.sundance.org/program/film...

I don't know yet -- it's a drivable distance from where I live so maybe so.

I'm in the process of digitizing some 8mm films that (my neighbor) Marilyn Laatsch made with John Collier in the 1970s, studies of nonverbal communication in diverse classrooms throughout the Bay Area. Hopefully working with Prelinger Archive.

announced for Sundance, a film I’m contributing sound design for:

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

by Adam Khalil & Zack Khalil

festival.sundance.org/program/film...

The Soundscape of Genocide in Gaza The broadcast of Netanyahu’s speech was not the first time Israel intentionally used sound and speaker systems to intimidate and terrorize the people of Palestine.

Over the past two years, the people of Gaza have been exposed to the sounds of bombs, drones, explosions, destruction, and sirens. How can we attend to the soundscape of a genocide with a critical ear, but also with the care and urgency it deserves?

Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...

Once again, Harvard does Trump's bidding by cutting programming on Palestine while publicly claiming to be fighting the good fight. Craven and duplicitous. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

It makes more sense when you think of it as sabotage (a la @check1check2.bsky.social)

Palantir quietly lands in Education Department through foreign funding portal The company is not publicly listed as part of the new portal project in federal spending records.

👀 Education Department spokesperson confirmed Palantir is a subcontractor to update the foreign funding portal, to monitor potential foreign influence in American schools...in a time when Federal funding is being revoked and watchwords are in place...👇
fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...

@CasualObserver indeed!

Intercom! Zine

I helped organize this memorial zine to my beloved doctoral advisor @jonathansterne.bsky.social. Thanks to all the contributors for their beautiful offerings. Sound ON for silly, apropos page turning sound effects.

intercomzine.com

Intercom! Zine

i was too upset in the moment to submit anything but please read all of these student and faculty reflections, each of which is incredibly special intercomzine.com

year end, looking back, wrapping up, list season, best, worst, & ambivalence, well here's another...

🧵 looking back at the things I made this past year, as much for myself as anything, but if I can interest & entice someone else to listen all the better, and there is one more BC Friday coming up..

Gross, they named it after a far-right wing billionaire www.griffinmsi.org/press-releas...

shanti shanti shanti
peace peace peace

Bien d'accord avec le syndicat de musiciens United Musicians And Allief Workers (UMAW) : il y a bien des meilleures façons d'écouter de la musique que de tendre l'oreilles à Spotify. Ils ont trop de méfaits sur la conscience.
@umaw.bsky.social @dadadrummer.bsky.social

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

On Friday I'm going to release Live 25 - Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. It's a little over an hour of solo soprano sax performances from this year, recorded by audience members. Includes footfalls, chair squeaks, passing vehicles, idling vehicles, idling vehicles with sub woofers, and soprano saxophone.

The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, November 2025 Our guide to the month‘s crucial contemporary classical work.

Thank you @pmargasak.bsky.social for this very nice review of Laura Cetilia - gorgeous nothings (elsewhere 035) in this month's Daily Bandcamp column.

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and their CEO is investing in military “AI”. #BoycottSpotify

FWIW, I celebrate ILL in this recent article :)

His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.

Flyer with the text: Non-Event Year-End PARTY! December 27, 2025, 7-11pm LIVE The Bicentennial Memorial Accordion Choir Rachel Devorah Heathen Shame Isabella Koen Abdul Hamid Sherzai Teignmouth Electron DJS EHRDZ Carl Schmidt FOOD * RAFFLE * CASH BAR American Legion Post 76 280 South Street, Jamaica Plain $20 admission (advance tickets available) NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS Flyer designed by Jeff DiPerna

On the cusp of turning 25, we're throwing a year-end party with a pretty killer lineup: the Bicentennial Memorial Accordion Choir, Rachel Devorah, Heathen Shame, Isabella Koen, Abdul Sherzai, Teignmouth Electron, plus EHRDZ & Carl Schmidt djing.

More info & tix: www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...

ooo I'm tempted --

awe lure

Reteaching my Representing Animals course next term and I’m looking to update the course screening (especially to make it more student-friendly). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Here’s the topics and films from before:

Topic: Introductions
Bestiaire (Denis Côté, 2012)

1/6

I think the point is that there was indeed broad support for holding Bush and Cheney accountable for war crimes (as signs in that photo show). And there was widespread disappointment that the Democratic leadership failed to do that.

Start the new year out with a sea of wondrous sounds! LISTENING WITH POINT REYES, January 10, 2026, 2-4pm. Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...

Join Ernst Karel and Cheryl E. Leonard for a listening session in which we explore Point Reyes National Seashore through audio recordings.

2025 music format ranking:

1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming