Sound and Technology
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Upcoming Meetings
There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.
Past Meetings
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May 19, 2022
Guest visit: Dr. Mara Mills (Media, Culture and Communication, NYU / personal website)
We'll be discussing Dr. Mills' recent presentation, "Everything is a filter? George Campbell and the development of the electrical filter in the Bell System (1903-1915)."
A link to the lecture is included in the pdf for the meeting.
This will be moderated by Magnus Schaeffer, Ph.D. student in Media and Communication at McGill University.
We'll briefly introduce the visitor, begin with introductory remarks on the reading, then discuss participants' questions as well as topics of interest to the visitor as appropriate.
All are welcome!
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April 8, 2022
Guest: Dr. Peter Sachs Collopy (University Archivist and Head of Archives and Special Collections, California Institute of Technology; personal website)
We'll be discussing Dr. Collopy's essay, "When Computer Animation Was Analog: Scanimate and the Work of Image Processing."
This session will be moderated by Dr. Ted Gordon, professor of Music at Baruch College.
All are welcome!
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March 11, 2022
Guest: Dr. Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Digital Media at King's College (London, UK). Also on Monoskop.
Reading: "Poeticizing Cybernetics:
Jakobson’s Informatic Infrastructure for Structural Linguistics," an excerpt from Dr. Geoghegan's upcoming book, Code: From Information theory to French Theory (Duke University Press, expected 2022).
Guest sessions are moderated. Our respondent this week will be Dr. Ted Gordon (Baruch College, Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts, Assistant Professor of Music).
We'll briefly introduce the visitor, begin with introductory remarks on the reading, then discuss participants' questions as well as topics of interest to the visitor as appropriate.
please note that the reading for this meeting is protected - reach out to ezrateboul@gmail.com for the password.
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February 11, 2022
Guest: Dr. Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University, Department of History)
Reading: Making Muzak Natural: The sounds of life, death, and the lyrebird in the built
environment, 1930–1970
Guest sessions are moderated.
We'll briefly introduce the visitor, begin with opening remarks on the reading, then discuss participants' questions as well as topics of interest to the visitor as appropriate.
All are welcome!
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January 14, 2022
No Meeting.
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December 10, 2021
*Note Special Time*
Guest Visit: Dr. Viktoria Tkaczyk (Humboldt University)
Readings:
"How to turn interior monologues inside out: epistemologies, methods, and research tools in the long twentieth century" (sound studies, 2020)
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"Disciplining Auditory Cognition" - Introduction to Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 (Dr. Tkaczyk's current book project)
Guest sessions are moderated.
We'll briefly introduce the visitor, begin with introductory remarks on the reading, then discuss participants' questions as well as topics of interest to the visitor as appropriate.
All are welcome!
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November 12, 2021
Guest: Dr. David Suisman (History, University of Delaware)
Reading:
G.I.s’ (Real) Soundtrack: A New History of Music in the U.S. War in Vietnam
Although all questions are welcome, please refer to David's opening comments regarding what he's hoping to get feedback on specifically. Don't hesitate to reach out to the conveners ahead of time if you have any questions!
We'll introduce Dr. Suisman briefly and let them introduce the text and context before moving on to discussion.
Looking forward to having you!
content note: some of the materials in this draft contain graphic descriptions of wartime violence and behavior.
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September 10, 2021
Guest Visit: Dr. Deirdre Loughridge (Northeastern University, Personal Website)
Reading: Loughridge, “Automaton Encounters: Vaucanson’s Flute-Player, Graffigny’s Letters & The Pleasure before Anxiety” (work-in-progress)Guest sessions are moderated.
We'll briefly introduce the visitor, begin with introductory remarks on the reading, then discuss participants' questions as well as topics of interest to the visitor as appropriate. If you have trouble viewing the readings after you have downloaded them, please email the convenors.
All are welcome!
Group Conveners
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Eamonn Bell
Eamonn Bell is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Durham University. Most generally, his research examines the history of digital technology in relation to contemporary musical production, consumption, criticism, and analysis. He holds a doctoral degree in music theory from Columbia University (2019) and a bachelor’s degree in music and mathematics from TCD (2013).
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Brian Miller
Brian A. Miller earned his Ph.D. in music theory from Yale University in 2020, where he has also served as a lecturer. His research focuses on the role of computation in both the intellectual history and current practice of music theory, particularly in relation to the work of music theorist Leonard Meyer and his influential theory of musical style. His work on computer improvisation and the stylistic modeling of jazz recently appeared in Music Theory Online. He previously completed a B.S. in Computer Engineering and an M.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas.
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Magnus Schaefer
Magnus Schaefer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Magnus's thesis focuses on digital sound analysis and synthesis in the 1950s and 1960s, tracing practices of formalization that turn simulated acoustic phenomena into objects of knowledge.
Magnus holds an M.A. in Art History from Humboldt University, Berlin.
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Ezra Teboul
I'm a researcher, artist and producer working on practice-based histories of electronic music and electricity-using technology more generally. I have a B.A. from Hampshire College, an A.M. from Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I've authored and co-authored papers in various audio engineering, philosophy, digital humanities, computing, and electronic music outlets, and I've presented at 4S, SHOT, SIGCIS and NESTS, in addition to invited talks at the Berlin University of Arts, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, or the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. I've released three records with Karl Hohn under the name "Passive Tones," exhibited in galleries in the US, Canada, and Germany, and performed in the US, Canada, France, and Denmark. I am currently co-editing a collection on modular synthesis for Routledge (due 2023). You can see a more detailed list of past and upcoming publications and projects here or various updates there.
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