Academic Work

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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

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 19^th 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.