Phantom Power

A podcast by Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer - Fridays

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62 Episodes

  1. Noise and Affect Theory (Marie Thompson)

    Published: 4/12/2024
  2. From HAL to SIRI: How Computers Learned to Speak (Benjamin Lindquist)

    Published: 3/29/2024
  3. Publishing for Nonfiction Authors (Jane Von Mehren)

    Published: 3/15/2024
  4. Noise and Information in the Office (Joseph L. Clarke)

    Published: 3/1/2024
  5. Robin Miles: Talking Books

    Published: 2/16/2024
  6. Radiophilia (Carolyn Birdsall)

    Published: 1/26/2024
  7. Cosmic Visions in Sound

    Published: 1/12/2024
  8. Tinnitus Stories

    Published: 12/16/2023
  9. Warren Zanes: Rockstar Biographer

    Published: 12/1/2023
  10. Making Radio History (Elena Razlogova)

    Published: 11/17/2023
  11. The Audiobook’s Century-Long Overnight Success (Matthew Rubery)

    Published: 11/3/2023
  12. Going Public

    Published: 10/19/2023
  13. A Philosophy of Echoes with Amit Pinchevski

    Published: 5/24/2023
  14. John Cage: Echoes of the Anechoic

    Published: 4/28/2023
  15. Sonic AI: Steph Ceraso & Hussein Boon

    Published: 4/17/2023
  16. Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes

    Published: 3/14/2023
  17. Westerkamp: The Unedited Interview [excerpt]

    Published: 2/17/2023
  18. The Sound World of Harriet Tubman

    Published: 2/1/2023
  19. Hildegard Westerkamp: A Life in Soundscape Composition

    Published: 1/9/2023
  20. Bonus Episode: Jonathan Sterne [excerpt]

    Published: 11/18/2022

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Sound is all around us, but we give little thought to its invisible influence. Dr. Mack Hagood explores the world of sound studies with the world's most amazing sound scholars, sound artists, and acoustic ecologists. How are noise-cancelling headphones changing social life? What did silent films sound like? Is listening to audiobooks really reading? How did computers learn to speak? How do race, gender, and disability shape our listening? What do live musicians actually hear in those in-ear monitors? Why does your office sound so bad? What are Sound Art and Radio Art? How do historians study the sounds of the past? Can we enter the sonic perspective of animals? We've broken down Yoko Ono's scream, John Cage's silence, Houston hip hop, Iranian noise music, the politics of EDM, and audio ink blot tests for blind people. Phantom Power is the podcast that both newcomers and experts in sound studies, sound art, and acoustic ecology listen to--combining intellectual rigor and great audio.