All are welcome to come to the first meeting of Yale’s Sound Studies Working Group, on September 11, 5-7 PM in 106 Stoeckel Hall.

We will be reading two essays by Mara Mills (NYU):

Mara Mills, “Modulation”

Mara Mills, “Evocative object: auditory inkblot”

April 25: In the Break (2)

The final meeting of the Sound Studies Working Group for the academic year will be held on Wednesday, April 25, from 1 – 3 PM in 210 Stoeckel Hall.

For this session, and the next, we will be continuing our reading of  Fred Moten’s In the Break. Our focus is on Chapters 2 and 3, and the pages on Adrian Piper. A link to the reading is available below:

• Fred Moten, In the Break
• Fred Moten, Abstract from his dissertation

Supplementary reading:

• Amiri Baraka, “Dark Lady of the Sonnets” (from Black Music)
• Amiri Baraka, The Burton Greene Affair

We will have plenty of food and drink and conversation. All are welcome to attend, even if you haven’t completed the readings. Don’t be shy. Join us!

March 28: In the Break (1)

The fifth meeting of the Sound Studies Working Group will be held on Wednesday, March 28, from 1 – 3 PM in the Stoeckel Hall Faculty Lounge. The lounge is located on the 2nd floor of Stoeckel Hall, just past room 201.

For this session, and the next, we will be reading Fred Moten’s In the Break. For this meeting, our focus is on the Introduction and Chapter 1, with some supplementary readings. Next session, on Wednesay, April 25 will cover Chapter 2 and 3. A link to the reading is available below:

• Fred Moten, In the Break
• Fred Moten, Abstract from his dissertation

Supplementary reading/listening:

• Intro to Sadiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection
• Jacques Derrida, “Law of Genre”
• Cecil Taylor, Chinampas
• Billy Strayhorn sings Lush Life

We will have plenty of food and drink and conversation. All are welcome to attend, even if you haven’t completed the readings. Join us!

February 28: Modernity’s Ear

The fourth meeting of the Sound Studies Working Group will be held on Wednesday, February 28, from 1 – 3 PM in 107 Stoeckel Hall (on the corner of College and Wall).

We will be reading chapters 1, 2, and 3 from Roshanak Kheshti’s Modernity’s Ear.  A link to the reading is available below:

• Chapters 1, 2 and 3 from Modernity’s Ear. 

The session will be lead by Prof. Brian Kane (Music).

Nota bene: Prof. Kheshti will be presenting a public lecture, “We See with the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Synesthetic Hermeneutics,” on Thursday, March 1, at 5 PM in WLH 309. This event is sponsored by the Black Sound and the Archive Working Group.

We will have plenty of food and drink and conversation. All are welcome to attend, even if you haven’t completed the readings. Join us!

The second meeting of the Sound Studies Working Group we will be held on Wednesday, November 15, from 1 – 3 PM in 107 Stoeckel Hall (on the corner of College and Wall).

We will be discussing Jennifer Lynn Stoever’s The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening. The introduction, chapter 1, and chapter 5 are available below:

Stoever, Sonic Color Line (intro, ch1, ch5)

The session will be lead by Prof. Brian Kane (Music).

We will have plenty of food and drink and conversation. All are welcome to attend. Join us!

The first meeting of Yale’s Sound Studies Working Group will be held on Wednesday, October 25, from 1-3 PM in 107 Stoeckel Hall (located on the corner of College and Wall).

On the agenda, we will read the introduction and two essays from a recent issue of Parallax (vol. 23, no. 3, 2017) on the theme “Sounding/Thinking,” edited by James Lavender.

Here are links to the issue:

James Lavender, Introduction Sounding Thinking

Marie Thompson, Whiteness and the Ontological Turn in Sound Studies

Mickey Vallee, Possibility Performance Politics On the Voice and Transformation

Anyone and everyone with an interest is sound studies is encouraged to attend, even if you haven’t completed the readings. (And there will be food.) Join us!