Category: Itinerary

“Perceptual Coding and the Domestication of Noise,” “Music, Sensory Ecologies and the Body” Lecture Series, Mahindra Humanities Center.

28 Oct: “MP3: The 100-Year History of an 18-Year-Old Format in About 45 Minutes” (Public Panel) 29 Oct: Internal Workshop: “Three Registers of Sonic Technique” (though I will probably change the title)

“Sound Studies and the Digital Humanities: A Work in Progress,” Digital Humanities Series, University of Sussex.

“Perceptual Coding and the Domestication of Noise,” Department of Music Colloquium Series.

Revisiting Extinct Sounds, discussion with artist Sari Carl and Curator Leah Abir. See footage of the world’s only working phonautograph. The invite actually mentions beer.

I will be a Mellon “Alliance for Networking Visual Culture” Fellow at the University of Southern California’s summer institute on digital humanities.

“Music and Consumerism, A Long View” as part of a panel entitled “Whatever Happened to Capitalism?” Experience Music Project Pop Conference, UCLA.

“Perceptual Capital: MP3s, Imagined Auditors, and Real Surpluses”, Department of Music Speaker Series, 4:30pm.

27 Jan: “What’s In a Format?: Some New (Old) Politics of Communication Technologies,” Communication and Society Lecture, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oregon. 28 Jan: “Modulated Subjects: MP3, Telephony and the Imagined Auditor.” Keynote for University of Oregon Symposium on Digital Scholarship.

Keynote: Domesticating Noise (but not the Future of Sound Studies), “Listen Again: The Changing World of Everyday Sound, Audio and Noise.”