Mack Hagood
@mactra.bsky.social
Sound scholar. Author. Host of Phantom Power, a podcast about sound: phantompod.org
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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?
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?
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@mactra.bsky.social From white noise apps and noise-cancelling headphones to tinnitus and sound therapy, Mack helped me understand the complex relationship between media, technology, and the human need to tune in (or out).
www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mac...
www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mac...
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
@mactra.bsky.social From white noise apps and noise-cancelling headphones to tinnitus and sound therapy, Mack helped me understand the complex relationship between media, technology, and the human need to tune in (or out).
www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mac...
www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mac...
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I really enjoyed this opportunity to speak with Mack Hagood, author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control, to explore how we use sound to manage our minds, moods, and modern lives. 🎧 Listen now and rethink the sounds you live with. www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mac...
@mactra.bsky.social
@mactra.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I really enjoyed this opportunity to speak with Mack Hagood, author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control, to explore how we use sound to manage our minds, moods, and modern lives. 🎧 Listen now and rethink the sounds you live with. www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mac...
@mactra.bsky.social
@mactra.bsky.social
Graham was such a blast to talk to—loved this conversation with a great multi-hyphenate artist!
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...
www.mackhagood.com/podcast/insi...
October 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Graham was such a blast to talk to—loved this conversation with a great multi-hyphenate artist!
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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.
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
August 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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.
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.
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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
April 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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...
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It’s like watching a troop of chimpanzees smashing a watch
April 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It’s like watching a troop of chimpanzees smashing a watch
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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...
Event details here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...
March 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
Event details here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...
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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
phantompod.org?s=sterne
You searched for sterne - Phantom Power
phantompod.org
March 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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
phantompod.org?s=sterne
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I always imagined @mactra.bsky.social with Barry Gibb's style long hair and beard. Video podcasts ruin everything!
February 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I always imagined @mactra.bsky.social with Barry Gibb's style long hair and beard. Video podcasts ruin everything!
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I am listening to the inspiring podcast with @eryk.bsky.social about the age of noise (or rather diffusion?).
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
youtu.be/d6CXBZ2eAAU?...
#soundstudies, #soundart, #mediastudies
Are AI art and music really just noise? (Eryk Salvaggio)
YouTube video by Phantom Power Podcast
youtu.be
February 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I am listening to the inspiring podcast with @eryk.bsky.social about the age of noise (or rather diffusion?).
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
youtu.be/d6CXBZ2eAAU?...
#soundstudies, #soundart, #mediastudies
Are AI art and music really just noise? (Eryk Salvaggio)
YouTube video by Phantom Power Podcast
youtu.be
February 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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
youtu.be/d6CXBZ2eAAU?...
#soundstudies, #soundart, #mediastudies
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?
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?
January 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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?
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?
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How terrible. I greatly appreciate Nicolas's work — including these two books I have in my own collection:
January 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
How terrible. I greatly appreciate Nicolas's work — including these two books I have in my own collection:
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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.
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?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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.
Anyone else had this stuck in their head for the past 48 hours?
December 11, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Anyone else had this stuck in their head for the past 48 hours?
About to resurrect this motherfucker.
December 7, 2024 at 9:27 PM
About to resurrect this motherfucker.
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GRANDillusions UNTITLED 1961 a #soundimage homage to #agnesmartin #painting #music #ambient
youtu.be/ddboMMhSnUg?...
youtu.be/ddboMMhSnUg?...
GRANDillusions UNTITLED 1961
YouTube video by Jan Swinburne
youtu.be
December 1, 2024 at 7:54 PM
GRANDillusions UNTITLED 1961 a #soundimage homage to #agnesmartin #painting #music #ambient
youtu.be/ddboMMhSnUg?...
youtu.be/ddboMMhSnUg?...
Worst Final Boss ever.
December 1, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Worst Final Boss ever.
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I hate to think bluesky is going to make that same mistake but if they don’t have a proactive plan in place for bots flooding the zone w/shit we are all fucked. And since so many of y’all already left the other site, well… are you starting to see what that means? What the end informational goal is?
December 1, 2024 at 12:20 AM
I hate to think bluesky is going to make that same mistake but if they don’t have a proactive plan in place for bots flooding the zone w/shit we are all fucked. And since so many of y’all already left the other site, well… are you starting to see what that means? What the end informational goal is?
New Orleans has always been intimately acquainted with death—a psychological advantage for the embrace of climate realism.
Opinion | New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change (Gift Article)
Unlike the other major cities that appear on lists of unsafe places, New Orleans has a striking competitive advantage.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:48 PM
New Orleans has always been intimately acquainted with death—a psychological advantage for the embrace of climate realism.
I use parts of this film in the history section of my Smartphone and Society class. Highly recommend!
What I'm watching for research (and fun) today. For heaven's sake, avoid lengthy conversations Susie! And cede the line to people whose babies have swallowed pins. Try not to use the telephone when housewives are doing their telephone shopping. www.youtube.com/watch?v=acyp...
Along Party Lines
YouTube video by Old TV Time
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2024 at 3:03 AM
I use parts of this film in the history section of my Smartphone and Society class. Highly recommend!
Very cool to see some scholarship on this South Vietnamese rock band, who performed for local youth and American GIs alike in the early 1970s.
The CBC Band Searches for the “Filmore”: some ongoing questions about music & protest. A brief talk delivered for Music & Protest in Historical Perspective, LePage Center for History in the Public Interest, Villanova University. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-cbc-band...
November 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Very cool to see some scholarship on this South Vietnamese rock band, who performed for local youth and American GIs alike in the early 1970s.
I went clubbing in New Orleans with Allen Ginsberg once in 1988. Producer Mark Bingham drove. I was just a kid who'd asked Ginsberg to sign my LP of HOWL at a reading.
He later invited me back to his hotel but I politely declined.
I was 18, he was 62.
Different times!
He later invited me back to his hotel but I politely declined.
I was 18, he was 62.
Different times!
Ginsberg looked into my eyes as we shook hands.
"Haven't we met before?" he asked.
"Well, yes, you did come to my school once," I replied awkwardly."
He shook his head.
Maybe, I thought, he meant in a past life. Maybe I was and old friend. Kerouac reincarnated.
No.
He was just hitting on me.
"Haven't we met before?" he asked.
"Well, yes, you did come to my school once," I replied awkwardly."
He shook his head.
Maybe, I thought, he meant in a past life. Maybe I was and old friend. Kerouac reincarnated.
No.
He was just hitting on me.
November 19, 2024 at 5:04 PM
I went clubbing in New Orleans with Allen Ginsberg once in 1988. Producer Mark Bingham drove. I was just a kid who'd asked Ginsberg to sign my LP of HOWL at a reading.
He later invited me back to his hotel but I politely declined.
I was 18, he was 62.
Different times!
He later invited me back to his hotel but I politely declined.
I was 18, he was 62.
Different times!
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ICYMI: Merch Table hypem.com/merch-table still works for turning Spotify playlists into lists of albums you can get on Bandcamp
November 13, 2024 at 6:05 PM
ICYMI: Merch Table hypem.com/merch-table still works for turning Spotify playlists into lists of albums you can get on Bandcamp