Today we discuss how narrative podcasts work, the role theyve played in American culture and how theyve shaped our understanding of podcasting as a genre and an industry.Neil Vermas new book, Narr

A new podcast called Lowlines takes us to a New Orleans Second Line, the brass band tradition that comes out of Black funeral processions and social clubs and is known not only for the power of the mu

Dr. Michael Heller examines sonic experiences that go beyond listening. Moments when sound overpowers us. When sound is sensed more in our bodies than in our ears. When sound engages in crosstalk wi

Feminist sound scholar and musician Marie Thompson is a theorist of noise. She has also been one of the key thinkers in integrating the study of sound with the study of affect. Continue reading

Learn how computers learned to speak with computer historian Benjamin Lindquist. Ben tells the the fascinating backstory to HAL 9000 and the strange the analog history of digital computing. Continue

Jane Von Mehren, Senior Partner at Aevitas Creative Management and a former Senior Vice President at Random House, explains how to find a literary agent, how to write a query letter to an agent, and h

Ever wonder who's to blame for the noise and distraction of the open office? Architectural historian Joseph L. Clarke has answers! Theories of acoustic communication accidentally inspired the sonic di

Today we bring you a master class in audiobook narration and acting with acclaimed actor, casting director, audiobook narrator and audiobook director, Robin Miles. Beyond technique, we talk about the

Sound and radio scholar Carolyn Birdsall discusses her award-winning bookNazi Soundscapes(AUP, 2012) and her new book,Radiophilia(Bloomsbury, 2023). Continue reading

Today we share a podcast episode on the visual epistemology of astronomy by our friends at The World According to Sound. What kind of knowledge do we really gain when we look at images from space? Co