#TigerBlood: Charlie Sheen and Affective Listening
What is going on with Charlie Sheen? Banking almost 1.5 million dollars per episode of Two and a Half Men, there seems to be very little reason for Sheen to say things like: “I am on a drug. It’s...
View ArticleBecoming a Bad Listener: Labyrinthitis, Vertigo, and “Passing”
For the past three weeks I have been sick with labyrinthitis. It started with a bout of vertigo while picking up some essentials at a local pharmacy and has since recurred in various other locations....
View ArticleIn the Flesh: Embodiment, Listening, and Transcription
The Fleshtones Setlist, 9/11/12 show in Bilbao, Spain, Editor’s Note: July 18th, 2012 has been designated as World Listening Day by the World Listening Project, a nonprofit organization founded in...
View ArticleYellow Rain and The Sound of the Matter: Kalia Yang’s Sonorous Objection to...
The critically acclaimed WNYC program Radiolab found itself embroiled in a controversy for its recent broadcast segment “Yellow Rain.” Released on September 24, 2012 as part of the episode entitled...
View ArticleBlinded By the Sound: Marvel’s Dazzler – Light & Sound in Comics
Trying to reproduce the popularity of KISS-themed comics: Marvel Super Special #5 (1978) I recently got my hands on a complete set of Marvel Comics’ Dazzler, a comic from the early to mid-80s that...
View ArticleQueer Timbres, Queered Elegy: Diamanda Galás’s The Plague Mass and the First...
Welcome to the final week of our February Forum on “Sonic Borders,” a collaboration with the IASPM-US blog in connection with this year’s IASPM-US conference on Liminality and Borderlands, held in...
View ArticleExperiments in Aural Resistance: Nordic Role-Playing, Community, and Sound
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Sounding Out!‘s fall series titled “Sound and Play,” where we ask how sound studies, as a discipline, can help us to think through several canonical perspectives on play....
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Game Audio: The Sounds of Mimetic Control and Affective...
It’s an all too familiar movie trope. A bug hidden in a flower jar. A figure in shadows crouched listening at a door. The tape recording that no one knew existed, revealed at the most decisive of...
View ArticleSounding Out! Podcast #49: Sound and Sexuality in Video Games
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View ArticleMediated Sexuality in ASMR Videos
“Why does it feel so good when someone else is touching you?” she asks, fluttering her fingers up her forearm in demonstration. The cheerful blond woman smiles brightly. “Is it because of the physical...
View ArticleSounding Out! Podcast #50: Yoshiwara Soundwalk: Taking the Underground to the...
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View ArticleSO! Podcast #71: Everyday Sounds of Resilience and Being: Black Joy at School
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View ArticleSO! Podcast #81: The Intimacy and Public Feeling of a Post-Troika Emotional...
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