Author: Jonathan Sterne

Conversation on MP3: The Meaning of a Format. Department of Music Speaker Series, 7pm

Author-meets-critics discussion for Charles Acland’s Swift Viewing. More details TBA.

Join us at 7pm, Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard Ouest.  There will be wine & cheese, some background audio, and the launch of MP3: The Meaning of a Format The Sound Studies Reader and a retroactive launch of Carrie Rentschler’s Second Wounds: Victim’s Rights and the Media in the U.S.

Panelist, “Noise Creates Meaning: A Panel Discussion on Music and Social Movements,” espace Pop Montreal (cosponsored by McGill PACE program).   With Eric Lewis and Bronwen Low.</a>

“Grounding Auto-Tune, ” Vocal Technologies Panel. Date TBA. More details here.

Keynote lecture, “MP3: A Hundred Year History of a 19-Year-Old-Format In Under an Hour.” More details here.

“Who Tunes Whom?” Presentation in departmental speaker series, details TBA.

Limited Definition(s) and Sound Cultures, a Public Conversation with Licia Fiol-Matta.

(tentative) “Who Tunes Whom: Auto-Tune and the Politics of Frequency,” AHCS Annual Faculty Symposium.

“MP3: The Meaning of a Format”, sound studies series, Department of Music.  Details TBA.