Phantom Power

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Listening in the Afterlife of Data (David Cecchetto)
David Cecchetto is a media theorist, artist, and musician who creates strange sonic experiments for understanding our computer-driven lives. Continue reading
(Re)Making Radio with Shortwave Collective
The Shortwave Collective--an international group of feminist radio artists--teach you how to make your own radio with found materials! We talk about play, experimentation, failure, community, and open
In One Ear, Out The Other (Jacob Danson Faraday On Cirque du Soleil)
On todays show, we address a performers nightmarethe nightmare of not being able to hear yourself onstage. My guest is ethnomusicologist Jacob Danson Faraday, who takes us behind the scenes of the
Season Four Trailer
Get ready for Season Four of Phantom Power, where we study sound in the arts, music, and culture! On Phantom Power, weve got an ear to the groundlistening to the subterranean rats of New York Wev
Fela Kuti and the Black Atlantic (Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert)
This month, we are preparing for the launch of Season Four of the podcast in September. Lots of fascinating topics on deck, as we double our output with a semi-monthly format. We are also about to off
Awfully Viral (Paula Harper on Will Robin’s Sound Expertise)
Will Robin interviews Dr. Paula Harper about her work on viral music videos and taste, specifically that terrible Rebecca Black video "Friday" that's probably still rattling around in some dark recess
Ep. 37 | Awfully Viral (Paula Harper on Will Robin’s Sound Expertise)
Will Robin interviews Dr. Paula Harper about her work on viral music videos and taste, specifically that terrible Rebecca Black video "Friday" that's probably still rattling around in some dark recess
Voices Pt. 3: Dork-o-phonics (Jonathan Sterne)
Jonathan Sterne is one of the most influential scholars working on sound and listening. His 2003 book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, had a formative influence on the then-n
Voices Pt. 2: The Sound of My Voice (Stacey Copeland)
In part two of our three-part series Voices, we feature an exciting new voice in the world of sound studies, Stacey Copeland. In part one last month, we examined the role voices play in professiona
Voices Part 1: Hut-hut-hike! (Travis Vogan, Jonathan Sterne)
In this first episode of a three-part series calledVoices, were listening to the sound of American footballspecifically the role of voices in the NFL. We start with a rather quirky story from NFL h