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Hate & Non-Human Listening, an Introduction
In January 2026, WIRED reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun using Palantir’s AI tools to process public tip-line submissions. The system does not simply store or...
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SO! Reads: Alexis McGee’s From Blues To Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s...
From Blues To Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics (SUNY Press, 2024) by Alexis McGee explores Black women’s creative labor and cultural production. The book offers a...
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“Just for a Few Hours, We Was Free”: The Blues and Mapping Freedom in Sinners...
In the 2025 blockbuster Sinners, Ryan Coogler has a vampire story to tell. But before he can begin, he needs to tell another story—a blues one. Sinners opens with a voiceover thesis statement...
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Faithful Listening: Notes Toward a Latinx Listening Methodology
**This piece is co-authored by Wanda Alarcón, Dolores Inés Casillas, Esther Díaz Martín, Sara Veronica Hinojos, and Cloe Gentile Reyes For weeks, we have been inundated with executive orders (220 at...
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The Braids, The Bars, and the Blackness: Ruminations on Hip Hop’s World War...
A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith By now, it’s safe to say very few people have not caught wind of the biggest Hip-Hop battle of the 21st century: the clash between Kendrick Lamar and...
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Sonic Homes: The Sonic/Racial Intimacy of Black and Brown Banda Music in...
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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Listening to MAGA Politics within US/Mexico’s Lucha Libre
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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Technologies of Communal Listening: Resonance at the Museum of Contemporary...
In both sound studies and the sonic arts, the concept of “resonance” has increasingly played a central role in attuning listeners to the politics of sound. The term itself is borrowed from acoustics,...
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Echoes of the Latent Present: Listening to Lags, Delays, and Other Temporal...
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. –Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five On an almost visceral level, we may likewise remark that states of “latency” involve downward movement, as in the...
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Listening to Digitized “Ratatas” or “No Sabo Kids”
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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Xicanacimiento, Life-giving Sonics of Critical Consciousness
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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Ronca Realness: Voices that Sound the Sucia Body
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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The Cyborg’s Prosody, or Speech AI and the Displacement of Feeling
Still from artist’s mock-up of The Cyborg’s Prosody(2022-present), copyright Dorothy R. Santos In summer 2021, sound artist, engineer, musician, and educator Johann Diedrick convened a panel at the...
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“Hey Google, Talk Like Issa”: Black Voiced Digital Assistants and the...
. In summer 2021, sound artist, engineer, musician, and educator Johann Diedrick convened a panel at the intersection of racial bias, listening, and AI technology at Pioneerworks in Brooklyn, NY....
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Beyond the Every Day: Vocal Potential in AI Mediated Communication
In summer 2021, sound artist, engineer, musician, and educator Johann Diedrick convened a panel at the intersection of racial bias, listening, and AI technology at Pioneerworks in Brooklyn, NY....
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SO! Amplifies: Immigrants Wake America Podcast and the Work of Engaged...
SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome! — Conceptualized at a...
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Teaching Soundwalks in a Course on Gentrification, Black Music, and Corporate...
On May 5, 2018, the C-ville Weekly, a newspaper based out of Charlottesville, Virginia, published an article titled “Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll: new apartment complex promises at least one of...
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One Scream is All it Takes: Voice Activated Personal Safety, Audio...
Just a few days ago, London Metro Police Officer Wayne Couzens pled guilty to the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by, a 33-year-old woman he abducted while she walked home from a friend’s house....
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Listen to yourself!: Spotify, Ancestry DNA, and the Fortunes of Race Science...
If you could listen to your DNA, what would it sound like? A few answers, at random: In 1986, the biologist and amateur musician Susumo Ohno assigned pitches to the nucleotides that make up the DNA...
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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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