Phantom Power

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

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Arts Music Society & Culture

69 Episodes

  1. How Music Became an Instrument of War (David Suisman)

    Published: 3/28/2025

  2. Remembering Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)

    Published: 3/23/2025

  3. How Spotify Dulls the Musical Mind (Liz Pelly)

    Published: 2/28/2025

  4. Are AI art and music really just noise? (Eryk Salvaggio) 

    Published: 1/29/2025

  5. Podcasting’s Obsession with Obsession (Neil Verma)

    Published: 5/24/2024

  6. Second Line: Footwork in New Orleans (Lowlines by Petra Barran)

    Published: 5/10/2024

  7. Beyond Listening: The Hidden Ways Sound Affects Us (Michael Heller)

    Published: 4/26/2024

  8. Noise and Affect Theory (Marie Thompson)

    Published: 4/12/2024

  9. From HAL to SIRI: How Computers Learned to Speak (Benjamin Lindquist)

    Published: 3/29/2024

  10. Publishing for Nonfiction Authors (Jane Von Mehren)

    Published: 3/15/2024

  11. Noise and Information in the Office (Joseph L. Clarke)

    Published: 3/1/2024

  12. Robin Miles: Talking Books

    Published: 2/16/2024

  13. Radiophilia (Carolyn Birdsall)

    Published: 1/26/2024

  14. Cosmic Visions in Sound

    Published: 1/12/2024

  15. Tinnitus Stories

    Published: 12/16/2023

  16. Warren Zanes: Rockstar Biographer

    Published: 12/1/2023

  17. Making Radio History (Elena Razlogova)

    Published: 11/17/2023

  18. The Audiobook’s Century-Long Overnight Success (Matthew Rubery)

    Published: 11/3/2023

  19. Going Public

    Published: 10/19/2023

  20. A Philosophy of Echoes with Amit Pinchevski

    Published: 5/24/2023

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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.