“Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, The Earth, and the Politics of Frequency” + grad seminar on MP3: the Meaning of a Format, Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
Category: Itinerary
15-18 November 2012: American Studies Association
Chair, “Sound and the State” panel. San Juan Puerto Rico.
19 October 2012: Carnegie Mellon University
Listening Space Conference. Details TBA.
6 October 2012: Yale University
Speaking at “The Sound of Architecture” conference, presenting “Sampling Space: A Simple Theory of Convolution.”
4 October 2012: Brown University
Conversation on MP3: The Meaning of a Format. Department of Music Speaker Series, 7pm
14 September 2012: Concordia University
Author-meets-critics discussion for Charles Acland’s Swift Viewing. More details TBA.
12 September 2012: Montreal Book Launch
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.
29 August 2012: Pop Montreal
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>
2-6 July 2012: Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris
“Grounding Auto-Tune, ” Vocal Technologies Panel. Date TBA. More details here.
22 June 2012: Supersonix Conference, London
Keynote lecture, “MP3: A Hundred Year History of a 19-Year-Old-Format In Under an Hour.” More details here.