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Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Afternoon
I am not usually one to listen and tell, but this time I feel the need to publicly confess, Katy Perry-style. A few weeks ago, I heard a symphony orchestra. And I liked it. I might even go so far as to...
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Classical Singing: Cradle for Sorrow and Healing
J. Stoever-Ackerman’s recent exploration of the complicated relationship between classical music and social class in America raised some provocative questions for me personally. I am a professional...
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From Illegitimate to Illmatic: On Tiger Mothers, Ethnoburbs, and Playing the...
“Don’t tell me you’re still listening to that shit.” “I told you, I like it.” “This is why we have so much trouble with you.” “You don’t know anything about it.” “Listen to that cursing…it’s nothing...
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Play it Again (and Again), Sam: The Tape Recorder in Film (Part One on Noir)
Being a teacher, I can’t resist giving out a summer reading list. Being a researcher, I can’t help but want to share the projects that I am working on–which right now includes excavating the cultural...
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How Svengali Lost His Jewish Accent
Diva as Svengali: Beyoncé by Lucas Lopez The pop juggernaut Beyoncé recently made headlines when she confessed her plans for world pop domination to an AP reporter. She said: “I am starting my...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #10: Interview with Theremin Master Eric Ross
Click to view slideshow. In this podcast Sounding Out! interviews Ithaca, New York theremin master Eric Ross. Eric talks here about his background in avant-garde classical music but also waxes...
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Digital Analogies: Techniques of Sonic Play
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Sounding Out!‘s fall forum titled “Sound and Play,” where we ask how sound studies, as a discipline, can help us to think through several canonical perspectives on play. While...
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Musical Encounters and Acts of Audiencing: Listening Cultures in the American...
Editor’s Note: Sound Studies is often accused of being a presentist enterprise, too fascinated with digital technologies and altogether too wed to the history of sound recording. Sounding Out!‘s last...
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Sculptural Dissonance: Hans Zimmer and the Composer as Engineer
Welcome to our new series Sculpting the Film Soundtrack, which brings you new perspectives on sound and filmmaking. As Guest Editor, we’re honored and delighted to have Katherine Spring, Associate...
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Moonlight’s Orchestral Manoeuvers: A duet by Shakira Holt and Christopher Chien
On January 10th, 2017, A24 + AFROPUNK + Wordless Music + Spaceland presented Moonlight at the historic Million Dollar Theater in Downtown Los Angeles with the Wordless Music orchestra as live...
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Beyond the Grandiose and the Seductive: Marie Thompson on Noise
Dr. Marie Thompson is currently a Lecturer at the Lincoln School of Film and Media, University of Lincoln. Her new book Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism has just been...
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Beyond the Grave: The “Dies Irae” in Video Game Music
For those familiar with modern media, there are a number of short musical phrases that immediately trigger a particular emotional response. Think, for example, of the two-note theme that denotes the...
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My Music and My Message is Powerful: It Shouldn’t be Florence Price or “Nothing”
Flashback to the second day of the recent Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference in Melbourne, Australia (6-8 July 2018). In a few hours, I will perform the first movement of the Sonata in E minor...
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Black Excellence on the Airwaves: Nora Holt and the American Negro Artist...
—Co-authored by Chelsea Daniel and Samantha Ege— Nora Holt (c.1885 – 1974) was a leading voice in Black America’s classical music scene. Her activities as a composer, performer, critic, commentator,...
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