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Garageland! Authenticity and Musical Taste
First show with The Carpetbaggers! @The Manor. Today’s post is a bit of a confessional. Reflecting on Andreas Duus Pape’s post a few weeks back, Building Intimate Performance Venues on the Internet, I...
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“I didn’t say look; I said listen”: The People’s Microphone, #OWS, and Beyond
Papier-mâché Bullhorn Spotted at Zuccotti Park, Photo by Author On a Tuesday right after Valentine’s Day in 2011 thousands of people marched on the Wisconsin capitol and good-naturedly, but firmly,...
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Quebec’s #casseroles: on participation, percussion and protest
en francais suivant NOTE: Due to the ongoing nature of the protests and the official bilingualism of Quebec, Sounding Out! wanted to ensure Jonathan Sterne’s work could be read by as many participants...
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“I Love to Praise His Name”: Shouting as Feminine Disruption, Public Ecstasy,...
Well, if you don’t believe in shouting, That’s alright with me Some folk don’t believe in shouting, That’s alright with me… Doubt and ignore it, But I belong to the Lord’s crew. David said rejoice in...
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Music Meant to Make You Move: Considering the Aural Kinesthetic
“Dance!” by Flickr user Clearly Ambiguous, under Creative Commons License 2.0 In the two weeks prior to my drafting this piece, the world lost Adam “MCA” Yauch, Robin Gibb, Donna Summer, and Chuck...
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Radio’s “Oblong Blur”: Notes on the Corwinesque
Miguel Covarrubias, untitled iIlustration to “Radio I: A $140,000,000 Art,” Fortune (May, 1938). Editor’s Note: Today, Neil Verma kicks off our summer series “Tune In to the Past,” which explores the...
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The Sound of Radiolab: Exploring the “Corwinesque” in 21st Century Public Radio
Editor’s Note: Today, radio scholar Alex Russo, author of Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio Beyond the Networks , continues our summer series “Tune In to the Past,” which explores the life and...
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One Nation Under a Groove?: Music, Sonic Borders, and the Politics of Vibration
Welcome to week three of our February Forum on “Sonic Borders,” a collaboration with the IASPM-US blog in connection with this year’s IASPM-US conference on Liminality and Borderlands, held in...
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Queer Timbres, Queered Elegy: Diamanda Galás’s The Plague Mass and the First...
Welcome to the final week of our February Forum on “Sonic Borders,” a collaboration with the IASPM-US blog in connection with this year’s IASPM-US conference on Liminality and Borderlands, held in...
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Radical Listening and the People’s Microphony: A Conversation with Elana Mann
Members and collaborators of ARLA (Paula Cronan, Juliana Snapper, and Elana Mann) participating in a General Assembly at Occupy LA City Hall, November 11, 2011 Listen to everything all the time and...
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Can You Hear Me Now?
The New York Times' Brian Stelter posted this tweet earlier this week. It serves as an example of the importance of sound to the media coverage of the protests in Egypt. And Gil-Scott Heron thought the...
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Head Games?: The Strategic View of Liveness and Performance
When I tell people that I am an economist and a musician, they usually have one of two reactions. Either they tell me that I must be crazy, or conflicted—that the two things can’t possibly go...
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Listening to Robots Sing: GarageBand on the iPad
I recently had the opportunity to fool around with the iPad2’s new GarageBand suite. Enticed by the intuitive touch interface I soon found myself lost within the device’s labyrinthine architecture....
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Hearing Queerly: NBC’s “The Voice”
“Brittany and Santana Lesbian Kissing Scene from Glee” by Flickr user LesMedia available under Creative Commons license 2.0 Tuesday, April 26, 2011 turned out to be a red-letter day for prime time...
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Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #2: Building Intimate Performance Venues on the...
The podcast is (or, can be) an intimate performance venue on the internet because it allows you to whisper into the ears of your fans. It allows you to grow close to communities of listeners. And...
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Pentecostal Song, Sound, and Authentic Voices
"Altar Call" by Richard Masoner) I grew up the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ in the Northeast. . .New Jersey, to be exact. And it was this particular religious and cultural world that gave me an...
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Calling Out To (Anti)Liveness: Recording and the Question of Presence
Editor’s Note: Even though this is officially Osvaldo Oyola‘s final post as an SO! regular–his brilliant dissertation on Latino/a identity and collection cultures is calling–I refuse to say goodbye,...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #22: Remixing War of the Worlds
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Sounding Out! Podcast #23: War of the Worlds Revisited
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Live Electronic Performance: Theory And Practice
This is the third and final installment of a three part series on live Electronic music. To review part one, “Toward a Practical Language for Live Electronic Performance” click here. To peep part two,...
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