Books
The Logic of Filtering. How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music. New York: Oxford University Press (2021). [Open Access]
Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps. New York: Bloomsbury Academic (forthcoming). 33 1/3 Europe Series.
[together with Jan Nieuwenhuis]
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Forthcoming
“‘I Hear a New World.’ Moon Metaphors and Media Music.” In: James Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter (eds.), Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation. London: Open Humanities Press, forthcoming (2022). [Open Access]
2021
“Electronic Contingencies. Goeyvaerts’s Sine Wave Music and the Ideal of Perfect Sound,” In: Caleb Kelly, Jakko Kemper, Ellen Rutten (eds.), Imperfections: Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures. New York: Bloomsbury (2021), pp. 129–148. DOI 10.5040/9781501380303.ch-005. [Open Access]
2020
“The Unmusical Ear: Georg Simon Ohm and the Mathematical Analysis of Sound.” Isis, Vol. 111, No.3 (2020), pp. 471-493. DOI 10.1086/710318. [Open Access]
“Hearing Pastness and Presence. The Myth of Perfect Fidelity and the Temporality of Recorded Sound.” Sound Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2020), pp. 29-44. DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1713524. [Open Access]
2015
“‘Antennas Have Long Since Invaded Our Brains.’ Listening to the ‘Other Music’ in Friedrich Kittler.” In: Maas, Sander van (ed.). Thresholds of Listening. Sound, Technics, Space. New York: Fordham University Press, (2015): 89-104. DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823264377.003.0006.
2014
“The Exceptional Purity of Sound. Noise Reduction Technology and the Inevitable Noise of Sound Recording.” Journal of Sonic Studies, Volume 7 (2014). [Open Access]
2012
“As Distant and Close as Can Be. Lo-fi Recording: Site-Specificity and (In)authenticity.” Soundscapes, Journal on Media Culture, Volume 15 (2012). [Open Access]
2011
“‘Over the Ruined Factory There’s a Funny Noise.’ Throbbing Gristle and the Mediatized Roots of Noise in/as Music. Popular Music and Society, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2011), pp. 23–34. DOI : 10.1080/03007766.2011.539814.
Dissertation
2017: Noise Resonance. Technological Sound Recording and the Logic of Filtering (Dissertation, University of Amsterdam).
- In the press:
- Rien van der Berg. “Ruis is een Vorm van Schoonheid” (article), Noord Nederlands Dagblad, 3 March 2017
- Pernilla Ellens. “De Muziek Slaapt in de Machine” (interview), Gonzo (Circus) Magazine, 4 March 2017
- Dirk Wolthekker. “Ruis maakt muziek juist interessant” (interview), Folia Magazine, 15 March 2017
- Bard van de Weijer. “Ruis essentieel voor goede muziekweergave, pardon?” (interview), De Volkskrant, 16 March 2017
- Anne Stuart – “De volmaakte plaat – wat is ‘ruis’?” in Preludium Maandblad, October 2017
- “Geen mooie muziek zonder ruis” (radio interview), De Nieuwshow at Radio 1, 29 April 2017
- Interview at Musical Material #5, Presented by Rewire Festival and West Den Haag. Watch here.
Other
2019
“The Future of Listening. Making Sense of Sound: Listening to Technical Media,” Naxos Music International, 11 November 2019.
2017
“Wolfgang Ernst. Sonic Time Machines: Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity” (book review), Journal of Sonic Studies, 2017.
2014
An Attempt to Sketch the Main Themes and Ideas – Introduction to Bernhard Siegert’s Passage des Digitalen.
More Things In Theory Than Heaven And Earth Are Dreaming Of. A conversation with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young by Melle Kromhout and Peter McMurray – Interview with media scholar and translator Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, December 2014.
Sound Studies: A Discipline? Sound Signatures Winter School, Amsterdam, January 2014 – Review of the Sound Signatures Winter School, Amsterdam, January 2014 for the “Sounding Out!” sound studies blog.
Lectures / Presentations
2019
“The Sonic Politics of Arca.” Talk at: Regenerative Feedback, 24 May 2019, Worm, Rotterdam.
“What’s That Sound!? How 19th Century Acoustics and 20th Century Media changed the Sound of Music.” Lecture at: Centre for Music and Science Seminar, 21 May 2019, Cambridge UK.
“Sounds, Waves, Signals. On the Intertwining of Music and Media (1843 – 2019).” Lecture at: Musique et Science Sociales Seminar, l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 6 May 2019, Paris.
“Electronic Imperfection. Karel Goeyvaerts’ Sine Wave Music and the Ideal of Perfect Sound.” Paper presented at: Imperfections Conference, 11-12 March 2019, University of Amsterdam.
2018
“In Search of Sonic Purity. How Acoustics and Technology Changed Music.” Lecture at: Stephen Hales Talk, Corpus Christi College, 20 November 2018, Cambridge.
“Ohm’s Unmusical Ear. On the Sine Wave as a Mode of Sonic Representation.” Paper presented at: The Audible Spectrum: Sound Studies, hearing culture and sound arts, Cité de la musique/Philharmonie de Paris, 7-9 June 2018, Paris.
“Resisting Pure Sound. Debunking the Myth of Perfect Fidelity, or Why Humans Will Never Be in Charge.” Talk at: Regenerative Feedback, ISSUE Project Room, 25-27 May 2018, New York, USA.
“Nature Has Completely Denied Me a Musical Ear. Are Musical Notes Sine Waves, and Why (Not)?” Paper presented at: Material Cultures of Music Notation, 20-22 April 2018, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2017
“The Primary Logic of Filtering. Ideal and Physical Filters and the Technical Production of Sound.” Lecture at: Cultural Techniques of Radiophonics Workshop, 19-20 October 2017, Universität Basel, Basel, Switserland.
“Tones That Have Lasted for Eternities. The Ideal Sine Wave between Symbol and Signal” (revised version).Paper presented at The Royal Musical Association’s 53rd Annual Conference, 7-9 September 2017, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
“I Hear a New World. Friedrich Kittler’s Concept of Music in the Age of Technical Media.”Paper presented at: Excavating Media. Devices, Processes, Apparatuses, 30 June/1 July 2017, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
“Tones That Have Lasted for Eternities. The Ideal Sine Wave between Symbol and Signal.” Paper presented at: After Idealism: Sound as Matter and Medium in the 19th Century, 17-18 March 2017, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
2016
“The Sound of the ‘Other Music‘. Music In the Age of Technological Filters.” Presentation at: Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies. Princeton University, 19-26 June 2016, USA.
2015
“The Ever-Present Noise of Sound. On the Inevitability and Necessity of Noise in Recorded Sound and Music.” Lecture at: Musicology Colloquium, 21 May 2015, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2014
“In the Fourier Domain, We Are Immortal. Noise, Time and the Limits of Sound Reproduction.” Presentation at: Sound Signatures Summer School: Part II: Epistemologies and the Order of Sound, 18-22 August 2014, NYU Center/MPIWG Berlin, Germany.
“All Things Must Pass. Some Thoughts on Algorithms, Noise and Temporality.” Presentation at: ‘Algorithm and the Humanities,’ University of Amsterdam, 11 June 2014.
“Noise.” Lecture at iArts Maastricht (Interdisciplinary Bachelor program), 5 June 2014.
“A Soft Landing into a Bed of Noise. Dithering: Hiding Noise with Noise in Digital Sound.” Paper presented at: Bone Flute to Auto-Tune: A Conference on Music & Technology in History, Theory and Practice, 24-26 April 2014, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
“How Much Noise is Necessary? Dithering and the Necessity of Noise in Digital Sound.” Paper presented at: ASCA Workshop 2014: Brains, Maps and Rhythms: Knowledge and Experience in (Bio)political Orders, 16-18 April 2014, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“Dithering. a Different Perspective on Noise in Sound Recording.” Presentation at: Sound Signatures Winter School. Part I: Spaces, Objects and Embodied Practices, 13-17 January 2014, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2013
“The Exceptional Purity of Sound. Noise Reduction and the (Dys)functionality of Noise in Recorded Music.” Paper presented at: Functional Sounds: the 1st International Conference of the European Sound Studies Association, 4-6 October 2013, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany.
2012
“On Friedrich Kittler’s ‘Signal-Rausch-Abstand.’” Presentation at: ‘Discourse Network: 2000 – Reading (Around) Friedrich Kittler,’ University of Amsterdam, 11 December 2012.
“Noise, Sound, Media. Revaluing Noise in the Media Age.” Paper presented at: Supersonix Conference, 21-23 June 2012, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Europe, London, UK.
2009
“As Distant and Close as Can Be. Lo-fi recording: Site-Specificity and (In)authenticity.” Paper presented at: The Fifth Annual Art of Record Production Conference, 13-15 November 2009, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, UK.
Other Writings
2008
“The Mechanics of Destruction. An Analysis of Authorship and Political Engagement in the Work of Matthew Herbert” (MA-thesis in Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam).
2006
“This Was Made to End all Parties. An Investigation of the Work of Einstürzende Neubauten Between 1980 and 1990″ (BA-thesis in Musicology, University of Amsterdam).
Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Reading Groups:
- Sensing the Sonic: Histories of Hearing Differently (1800-Now)
- Conference: 15-16 June 2018, University of Cambridge, UK
- Acoustics of Empire (in preparation for an international conference on 7-8 December 2018, University of Cambridge, UK. Organised by Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay)
- 16-17 March 2018, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- 23-24 March 2018, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- Reading Friedrich Kittler’s Musik und Mathematik I Hellas 1: Aphrodite
- International online reading group together with Peter McMurray (Harvard/MIT), 2015
- Reading Bernhard Siegert’s Passage des Digitalen
- International online reading group together with Peter McMurray (Harvard/MIT), 2014/2015
- Data Drive PhD-seminar
- Reading group at ASCA, together with Geli Mademli (UvA), 2014/2015
- Digital Materialities: tracing the Digital – Reading group at ASCA, together with Christian Olesen (UvA), 2013/2014
- Discourse Network 2000: Reading (Around) Friedrich KittlerReading group at ASCA, together with Sander van Maas) (UvA), 2012/2013
Courses:
- Histories and Theories of Sound and Technology in the 19th Century, University of Cambridge, Co-lecturer, 2018.
- Theoretical Perspectives on Popular Music and Media, University of Amsterdam, Co-lecturer 2010- 2015.
- Sound Cultures, University of Amsterdam, Guest lecturer, 2012-2015.
- Revoluties in Muziek en Muziekwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, Guest-lecturer, 2010-2012.
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