Sound Studies - Starter Pack
Compilation of Sound Studies practitioners, theorists, musicologists, and the generally sonically curious
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@audioontology.bsky.social
@von-neumann.com
🔊💻Composer-Performer of Computer music. 🌿💿Thinking about #permacomposing
@jennykenyon.bsky.social
20th century literature & sound | SWW DTP funded PhD @bristoluni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk | Patrick Hamilton appreciation society
@proflofi.bsky.social
I'm a sound artist who enjoys breaking things to hear what they sound like... www.billthompson.org
@carozqueta.bsky.social
Historian, curator, and writer interested in the transdisciplinary intersections of art, nature, science, and technology; energies in the arts; and the history of medicine.
@simongandrew.bsky.social
Historian of media, pop culture, the Middle East. Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
@silentrecord.bsky.social
Métis | Communication & Culture PhD Candidate @yorkuniversity | Infoscape Lab | Institute for Research on Digital Literacies | Media, Sound, Surveillance, Indigenous Studies | Otipemisiwak lii Shansoon The Politics of Media Scarcity (2024) out now.
@mediumflow.bsky.social
This non-profit platform is and remains my first home: https://mastodon.social/deck/@mediumflow Bridge: https://bsky.app/profile/mediumflow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 📖 https://campsite.bio/mediumflow
@marcelonoah.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University – Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures; Sound, Media, Technology; Poetry, Songwriting, Avant-gardes | Posts in English, Portuguese & Spanish
@louisekwilson.bsky.social
Artist/sound/researcher/ lecturer at Uni of Leeds (art and design) / cold water swimming/ West Yorkshire
@ycc1010.bsky.social
Grad student in EE doing audio/music signal processing mainly about timbre right now but always dreaming about going into music, sound, or media studies someday Maybe someday I'll start writing and probably never stop
@thescont.bsky.social
Music professor (ethnomusicology and etc.) at USC’s Thornton School of Music. I research at the intersections of oral traditions and digital technologies. Focus: Irish music; jazz; soundscapes; digital humanities; media and identity. Projects posted below.
@room40.bsky.social
Lawrence English//Room40 ... vibrating bodies with sound, philosopher of listening. Bookings worldwide - Regina Greene @ Front Porch Productions
@sethkim-cohen.bsky.social
Maker of stuff nobody asked for, including: Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life (Bloomsbury Publishing) The Fire Show ~ Here Lies the Fire Show (In Situ Sound) Against Ambience (Bloomsbury Publishing) names_of_music ~ Olias in the Wake of the Ideal-X (In Situ)
@sonicartsforum.bsky.social
The Sonic Arts Forum is a UK-based group for those using audio creatively. We hold regular free meetings: all are welcome. If you are interested in hosting a meeting our admin/principal organiser is Coryn Smethurst.
@hadar2l.bsky.social
Lecturer at The DAN Department of Communication Tel Aviv University Media Theory & History / Sound Studies / Voice & AI https://www.hadarlevylandesberg.com/
@shelleytrower.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus (Roehampton) now novel writing (ACE funded) & working with libraries (SWRLS) in Cornwall. Preoccupations incl. sound, trauma, memory, life stories, silence collectivism, environmental crisis & see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
@mactra.bsky.social
Sound scholar. Author. Host of Phantom Power, a podcast about sound: phantompod.org mactrasound.com
@davidcecchetto.bsky.social
Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician. -Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn) -Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@calebkelly.bsky.social
Academic, curator, eater and traveling side show. A/Prof in media art theory, UNSW Sydney
@dahlbergsears.bsky.social
PhD in Punk Stuff, Tokyo dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology Punk/alt. musics in Japan he/him
@brianfauteux.bsky.social
Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit coming soon: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
@kylebarnett.bsky.social
Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio. https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
@lucyosler.bsky.social
Philosophy Lecturer at Cardiff Uni, phenomenonology, online sociality, tech, emotions, phenomenological psychopathology, feminism. she/they #philosophy #philsky www.lucyosler.com | www.projectemote.com
@tildesounds.bsky.social
freelance producer / composer / mix & mastering engineer / sound designer / teacher / shithead based in northern germany he/they/any hire me -> dm private lessons: https://calendly.com/tildesounds/lessons discord: https://discord.gg/CHSykfjgJX
@stephenroddy.bsky.social
Musician/Researcher/Lecturer: Art & Computing (sound | music | digital) @radhumslab.bsky.social & Digital Humanities Dept., UCC https://linktr.ee/stephenroddy
@robinjames.bsky.social
editor & independent scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Bylines Jezebel, Guardian, LARB, Real Life, etc. no views, just vibes. its-her-factory.com
@richardelliott.bsky.social
Writer, teacher and researcher based in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). Author of books and articles about sound and music. I write the Songs and Objects newsletter at Substack (https://songstudies.substack.com/)
@drs.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Principal Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
@douglaskahn.bsky.social
Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999).
@jonathansterne.bsky.social
sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats -- Montreal https://sterneworks.org
@alixhui.bsky.social
Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
@aramsinn.bsky.social
SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako
@anthroposound.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi. Writes on music & sound in Kenya. #Ethnomusicology #Anthropology. Author 'Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast' www.weslpress.org/9780819501066/sounds-of-other-shores
@burrata.bsky.social
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.
@sonocculture.com
synthetic thought-dealer ~ ¦ GPT-333 ¦ the unheard ¦ public universal fiend ¦ sound studies : media philosophy : sound art history
@jefftoddtiton.bsky.social
Professor of Music Emeritus, Brown University. Ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, folklore. New book: Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (Oxford U Press 2023). Old book: Toward a Sound Ecology (Indiana U Press 2020). Essays at https://brown.academia.edu/JeffToddTiton
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Associate Prof, University of Colorado; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio
@michaelshallcross.bsky.social
Literature scholar (c.1800-present) by background, uni admin person by necessity. Still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
@ericdienstfrey.bsky.social
Film/Media/Comm/Sound Studies @ UC & UA. Author of MAKING STEREO FIT https://www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/ Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Stephen King, and Taylor Swift. "The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
@sir-ian.bsky.social
Onetime English/radio prof, now policy guy. Media, fiction, Indigenous rights and reconciliation. Here for bad takes & worse jokes. Writing the Radio War, the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism & Technology, & DUBLINERS out now. www.ianwhittington.com
@literarychica.bsky.social
HS Teacher. Writer. Editor. Cat lady. PhD. 🇵🇷 via New York. Love me some HTX. Started from the bottom, now we’re here.
@guhrs.bsky.social
Postdoc in Computational Linguistics and Literary Studies Founding member of @fortextlab.bsky.social Visiting Scholar @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social and @idhcologne.bsky.social Editorial Ass. @jcls-io.bsky.social Website: svenjaguhr.github.io
@sunilchandy.bsky.social
Lecturer in Worship and the Creative Arts - interactions between Sound Studies and Theology - ADHD in a multicultural neurodiverse family - postcolonial malayalee
@jbraddock.bsky.social
media studies sound studies modernism book history dub techno shoegaze music still scoring my own baseball games
@tincugelj.bsky.social
incoming MSCA postdoc at the University of Nottingham | PhD from University of Bern | historical sound studies | historical trombonist | co-founder of IMS Auditory History
@bibliophibian.bsky.social
voice, speech, accents, dialects; Earlham, Waseda, Central Speech & Drama, Northwestern, Cornell; Japanese, theatre, performance studies, sound studies
@cehrick.bsky.social
Historian, University of Louisville. Latin America, Radio, Sound Studies, Media History. Currently researching radio and dictatorship in Uruguay
@ckita.bsky.social
Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature; President, Austrian Studies Association; Research in German and Austrian Literature and culture, German-Jewish Studies, Music and Sound Studies, Radio Plays.
@evahallama.bsky.social
history, sound studies, psychoanalysis | SONIME "Sonic Memories. Audio Letters in Times of Migration and Mobility"
@jsfarr.bsky.social
Assoc prof of ENGL, Marquette U • writing about deafness, disability, queerness in the looong c18 • cat dad • running punk • KEXP listener • novel reader • 🏳️🌈🦻• 🏀🏈 U of U, MU, Bucks, Packers • he/him
@taoleighgoffe.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ CUNY• Black studies • PhDJ• order my new book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday, 2025). https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/ www.taoleighgoffe.com Harvard Kennedy School fellow
@friedlind.bsky.social
music & sound studies, media philosophy | painfully split between German academia and anglophone-mainstream academia | Wrote a book about Burmese opera/pyazat https://friedlindriedel.de/
@sammusmusic.net
#BOMAYE / beats + raps / Assistant Prof in Music at Brown / PhD STS from Cornell / Interests: Gamer-rap, AI + Hip-Hop, Black feminist sound studies, Afrofuturism, trashy dating shows 💪🏿🦾 www.enongo.net instagram.com/sammusmusic
@disquiet.bsky.social
Disquiet.com since 1996: ambient/electronic music, field recordings, sound studies. I moderate the Disquiet Junto community of weekly music projects. I've written for The Wire, Pitchfork and Nature. I publish ThisWeekInSound.disquiet.com. Offline weekends.
@alejandrinammedina.bsky.social
académica de mujer *Latinx Studies, Sound Studies, Performance Studies* https://am-medina.com/
@kategalloway.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. RPI ARTS/GSAS music + environment, sound studies, digital media & game studies Co-organizer @SwiftCon2021 & Music & the Internet 2023
@cinemelo.bsky.social
I'm Gun Crazy, & I love Barbara Stanwyck so much it hurts sometimes | PhD in sound & Classical Hollywood | film studies lecturer | co-curator @melbcinematheque.bsky.social https://letterboxd.com/cinemelo/
@soundmusicscms.bsky.social
The Sound and Music Studies scholarly interest group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
@amethystjazz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at CU Boulder; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
@jomeara.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in Film Studies & IRC Laureate, Trinity College Dublin. Digital theory, screen voices, sound, immersive tech and synthetic media. And cats.
@shmeppy.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of modernism, film, sound studies, and shitposting. Pigma Micron loyalist, chess amateur, donkey lover, interloping Portlander, mortal foe of AI, Douglas Sirk acolyte, despairing Broncos fan. The slotted spoon can catch the potato. 🥔
@audioontology.bsky.social
ambient metaphysics | radical aesthetics | sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning https://lahri.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/jamie-stephenson/ ORCID: 0009-0002-8211-6586