SPRING 2017
February 21: Brian Kane (Associate Prof., Music) on Michel Chion, Sounds: an Acoulogical Treatise
March 7: Daphne Brooks (Professor of American Studies, Theater Studies, Af-Am, Yale) on a chapter from her manuscript Subterranean Blue: Black Women Sound Modernity
April 4: Wills Glasspiegel (Graduate Student, Af-Am and Film and Media Studies) on Jaye Clayton, Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
May 2: Brian Miller (Graduate Student, Music) on Jonathan Sterne, MP3: The Meaning of a Format
FALL 2016
September 27: Brian Kane (Associate Prof, Music) on John Mowitt, Sounds: The Ambient Humanitites
October 11: Kat Slovik (Graduate Student, Music) on Ana Maria Ochoa, Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
November 15: Nick Forster (Graduate Student, Af-Am) on Ashon Crawley, Black Pentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility
December 13: Mary Horn (Graduate Student, Music) on Karin Bijsterveld et al., eds., Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
SPRING 2016
February 1: Readings from Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s Africa in Stereo.
March 7: Ben Glaser (English, Yale), “Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics.”
April 4: Patricia Stuelke (English, Dartmouth), “Sounding Out the Panama Invasion.”
April 8-9: Techniques of the Listener, a Humanity/Humanities project
FALL 2015
November 2: Sara Marcus (English, Princeton), “‘What do you want?’:
Noise and Political Desire in Black Power’s Intermission”
December 7: Michael Denning (American Studies, Yale) speaking about his new book, Noise Uprising.
SPRING 2015
February 16: Pauline LeVen (Classics) “Syrinx’ voice: violence, vibrant materiality, and the musical object.”
March 30: Carter Mathes (English, Rutgers), discussing his new book, Imagine the Sound: Experimental African-American Literature after Civil Rights.
April 6: Screening and discussion of Deconstructing Dad, a documentary about pioneering electronic musician Raymond Scott, with his son, Stan Warnow.
FALL 2014
October 13: Carmel Raz (Music) “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination”
November 3: Julie Beth Napolin, (Eugene Lang Liberal Arts College, The New School) “‘Ravel Out into the No-Wind No-Sound’: The Audiophonic Form of As I Lay Dying”
December 8: Ron Kuivila (Music, Wesleyan) “Big Dada: The Technics of Dissociation”
SPRING 2014
February 10: Joseph Clarke (Architecture), “Reverberation: An Architectural History”
March 3: Joeri Bruyninckx (MIT Science, Technology, and Society), “Scientific Scores: Sound Recording and Trained Listening in Bird Song Biology”
April 15: Screening of Upstream Color
April 21: Amy Herzog (Queen’s College, Film Studies), “Rendering the Audible: Resonance, Order, and Noise in Upstream Color”
FALL 2013
September 11: Allie Kieffer (Department of Music), “Conceptualizing Sound in French Musical Modernism: A Case Study in Bells”
October 9: Richard Prum (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), “Birdsong and Aesthetics”
November 13: David Budries (School of Drama), “Sound and Meaning, or Recognizing Aural Fragments”
December 11: Joseph Klett (Sociology), “Making Space for Sound Out of Place”
SPRING 2013
January 31: Ayla Lepine (Visiting Fellow, Institute of Sacred Music), “Sound Revivalism: William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, George Frederick Bodley, and Victorian Spaces”
February 21: Michael Veal (Music), “The Acoustics of Diaspora”
March 28: Brian Kane (Music), “On Sounds Unseen”
April 25: J.D. Connor (History of Art), “An Oral History of Our Time”
