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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · 5d

Graham was such a blast to talk to—loved this conversation with a great multi-hyphenate artist!

Graham Reznick @grahamreznick.bsky.social · 11d

A total honor to be a guest on @mactra.bsky.social ’s esteemed PHANTOM POWER podcast, going deep on RABBIT TRAP sound design process, DEADWAX, guitar pedals, and insidious audio. Phantom Power is essential listening for anyone into in sound, music, & audio theory!

www.mackhagood.com/podcast/insi...

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · Aug 29

Did an episode of the podcast Phantom Power which you can enjoy here:

blubrry.com/phantompod/1...

@mactra.bsky.social , who runs it, is a sound studies legend and wonderful guy. I kept forgetting we were recording because I just really like talking to Mack.

Maurice Rocco and the Psychedelic Roots of Thai Music: Race, Queerness, and Urban Chang…

With movie star looks and a raucous piano style, Maurice Rocco made a splash in the 1940’s, influencing future rock and rollers Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. By the 60s, however, he was a has-be...

blubrry.com

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · 28d

Ben, the pleasure was mine! It was a fantastic conversation that I’m glad we documented for the ages!

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · Apr 27

As a long-time listener of @mactra.bsky.social’s "Phantom Power" podcast, it was an honor to have the opportunity to explore Egypt's cassette culture with a couple of colleagues on an episode that takes the form of a mixtape. phantompod.org/cassette-the...

Cassette Theory: A Mixtape (Eleanor Patterson, Rob Drew, and Andrew Simon)

Three top media scholars discuss the impact of the cassette tape in American and Egyptian music and culture.

phantompod.org

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Apr 3

It’s like watching a troop of chimpanzees smashing a watch

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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · Mar 25

On Friday, I dropped by #CBC studios in #Edmonton to talk about #SiriusXM and subscription music listening, and the book launch for Music In Orbit, taking place tomorrow at Audreys Books at 7pm.

Event details here:

www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

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Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social · Mar 21

Folks mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne may enjoy revisiting his chats with @mactra.bsky.social. Jon's insatiable curiosity, passion, humor, and general joie de vivre are on full display.

phantompod.org?s=sterne

You searched for sterne - Phantom Power

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Mar 9

Just saw someone reading one on a plane two days ago.

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Feb 21

I always imagined @mactra.bsky.social with Barry Gibb's style long hair and beard. Video podcasts ruin everything!

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Feb 21

If only I could grow chest hair like that!

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Feb 12

I feel like I’ve heard the same error but it must’ve been a different audiobook.

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Feb 9

Book title?

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Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de · Feb 5

I am listening to the inspiring podcast with @eryk.bsky.social about the age of noise (or rather diffusion?).

Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Feb 4

My podcast about #sound + #audio, Phantom Power, recently dropped an excellent interview with @eryk.bsky.social on #AI in art, music, and culture. In the pod app of your choice or on YouTube.

youtu.be/d6CXBZ2eAAU?...

#soundstudies, #soundart, #mediastudies

Are AI art and music really just noise? (Eryk Salvaggio)

YouTube video by Phantom Power Podcast

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Feb 5

You were a Mermaid denizen? When did you live in NOLA? We probably rubbed elbows

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Feb 4

phantompod.org/are-ai-art-a...

Are AI art and music really just noise?

Artist and theorist Eric Salvaggio explores the technical aspects of AI art, its impact on culture, and the 'age of noise' he says it has ushered in.

phantompod.org

Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Feb 4

My podcast about #sound + #audio, Phantom Power, recently dropped an excellent interview with @eryk.bsky.social on #AI in art, music, and culture. In the pod app of your choice or on YouTube.

youtu.be/d6CXBZ2eAAU?...

#soundstudies, #soundart, #mediastudies

Are AI art and music really just noise? (Eryk Salvaggio)

YouTube video by Phantom Power Podcast

youtu.be

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Jan 8

My next book, The End of Listening, is now under contract with Penguin Press!

We'll meet the developers of emerging technologies intended to give us complete control of the sounds around us. The dream of vanquishing noise is as old as antiquity--but what would it mean to actually succeed?

Publishers Marketplace announcement: "Miami University professor of media and communications and author of HUSH Mack Hagood‘s THE END OF LISTENING: WHAT WE LOSE WHEN WE CANCEL NOISE, about the unintended consequences of the rise of "the orphic industries"—from white noise machines and noise-canceling headphones to nature sound apps and in-ear, AI-driven "hearables"—whose stories raise urgent ethical, political, and societal questions, not the least of which is whether the very technologies we rely on to help control our stress-inducing environments might be eroding our emotional resilience and connection to society, to Penguin Press, at auction."

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jan 5

How terrible. I greatly appreciate Nicolas's work — including these two books I have in my own collection:

Dr. Smartphone: An Ethnography of Mobile Phone Repair Shops

Black cover depicting an eagle and a drone, with the title "A Bestiary of the Anthropocene"

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Dec 18

So it’s a white noise chamber as well?

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Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social · Dec 18

It looks rather… porous?

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Dec 11

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?