I am Chair of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. I am not teaching any courses this term. I have a heavy travel schedule, but when in town and not running the department, I will continue working on my book manuscript MP3: The Meaning of a Format.

2009

2-4 January, “The Algorithm of the Voice: Suzanne Vega’s ‘Tom’s Diner,’” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City.

23 January, Two events, Department of Music, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Panelist on the future of sound studies and public lecture, “Is Music a Thing?”

12 February, Title TBA, New York University.

13-14 February, Title TBA, Listening In, Feeding Back conference, Columbia University, New York City.

20 February, “The Historical Emergence of Perceptual Coding: Listening and Noise Across Field 1955-1979,” STS Colloquium, Stanford University

24 February, Music/Ethnomusicology combined colloquium, University of California Los Angeles (title TBA)

2 March, STS colloquium at University of California, San Diego (title TBA)

7 March, “Is Music a Thing?” Keynote at UN-Music Conference, Harvard University.

13 April, “Sound Reproduction After Noise,” STS Colloquium at Cornell University.