Introductions
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- Audacity - Open Source Audio Editing Software (also here)
- LAME plugin for Audacity so you can export MP3s (scroll down the FAQ page)
- Audacity Manual + Tutorials
- Audacity Basics: Recording, Editing, Mixing
- Audacity Tutorials
- DIY $23.00 Mini Sound Booth built in under an hour
- Zoom H1 Handy Recorder (amazon; w/ pack)
- Zoom H4N PRO Digital Multitrack Recorder - 2016 Version
- Mics for Recording with iPhone/iPad
- Simple Mic (app)
- Voice Recorder HD (app)
- Audiobus (apps)
- Reaper - Digital Audio Workstation
- Free Sound Project
- The Public Domain Project
- NASA Space Sounds
- 7 Sources of Creative Commons Audio For Podcasts
- Gear for Starting out Field Recording
- 7 Essential Field Recording Books
- Pisaro, Ten Framing Considerations of the Field
- Making Field Recordings
- A Beginner's Guide to Field Recording
- The Field Recordist
- The Field Recordist
- Creative Field Recording
Voice and Listening
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- The Act of Listening
- RE:Sound The Hearing Show
- Listening to the Processes that Shape the World
- Rev. of Everyday Music Listening
- Rev. of Sonic Possible Worlds
- Sonic Field - Listening
- Is the Sound of Silence the End of the Self?
- MIT Researchers Can Listen via Video
- Neuroscience and Tinnitus
- Hair Cells and the Mechanoelectrical Transduction of Sound Waves
- How to Listen to Music: A Vintage Guide to the 7 Essential Skills
- Sound Journeys
- Unique Copy of First Full-length Audio Book Found in Canada
- Masterclass Pauline Oliveros-1: Introduction and Background of Deep Listening
- Pauline Oliveros 1932–2016
- How a Mother's Voice Shapes her Baby's Developing Brain
- A Sound You Can't Unhear (and What It Says About Your Brain)
- The Hidden Sound Patterns that Could Overturn Years of Linguistic Theory
- Hearing Eugenics
- Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening
- How to Pay Attention: 20 Ways To Win The War Against Seeing
- In Defense of the Lecture (On the benefits of active listening)
- Pettman, Sonic Intimacy
Soundscapes
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- Reverb: The Evolution of Architectural Acoustics
- You Can Hear Hagia Sophia's Sublime Acoustics Without a Trip to Istanbul
- Making Ancient Greek Rhetoric Relevant
- Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
- The Center of the Universe
- Earbuds that Let You Customize How the World Sounds Around You
- Sound is the Forgotten Flavor
- World Listening Day
- World Listening Day - Sonic Terrain Compilation (2013; 2014; 2015)
- Sounds of Our Shores
- Sounds of the British Coast
- Soundstage
- How a New Age Hustler Sold the Sound of the World
- Sonic Revolutions DRC - CW Review
- Harry Bertoia: Clear Sounds/Perfetta (wikipedia)
- Oenosthesia: Sound and Wine Project
- 42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor Who Will Help You Relax and Sleep
- Endless Drone
- How ambient music can help ease the trauma of the ICU
- Until I Die - A sound installation powered with 4.5 liters of the artist's own blood
Noise
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- Noise
- Sound Experts Make Art of the Noise all Around Us
- Christof Migone - Interview
- Women Making Electronic Music
- Turn Songs into 3D-Printed Sculptures You Can 'Listen To'
- Scientists Use Sound Waves to Make Things Levitate (video)
- Now You Can Listen to the Internet's Secret Algorithms
- Listen to Wikipedia
- Christian Wolfe - Interview (companion)
- Abel Grimmer, Spring
- Puce Mary, Courses (Danish Industrial Noise)
- Musician Uses Sound to Manipulate Tesla Coil, Fire, and Matter (Nigel Stanford)
- Body Noise Amp
- Sensory Studies Sound Gallery
- International Noise Conference
- Compilation Record (noise – rap)
- Riot Grrrl, Punk and the Tyranny of Technique
- How Sound Can Be an Ally or an Enemy of a Healthy Brain
- National Noise Map Charts Americans' Aural Misery
- Japanese Experimental Pioneer Phew Is Back with Her First Solo Record in 20 Years
- Pharmakon: The Noisy Sound of Empathy
- Surface Noise
Publics
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- NYPD Uses Military-Grade Sonic Weapon On Eric Garner Protesters
- Acoustic Weapons in the United States: From the G20 Summit to the Black Lives Matter Protests
- Election's Reverb: An Interview with Stefan Helmreich
- "I didn’t say look; I said listen": The People's Microphone, #OWS, and Beyond
- The Sound of Hippiesomething, or Drum Circles at #OccupyWallStreet
- Twitchy Ears: A Document of Protest Sound at a Distance
- SANDRA BLAND: #SayHerName Loud or Not at All
- The Sound of Fear: From Long Range Protester-Deterring Acoustic Devices to Military Drones
- Spaces of Sounds: The Peoples of the African Diaspora and Protest in the United States
- Scenes of Subjection: Women's Voices Narrating Black Death
- Rethinking Protest Music - Conference
- The Torture Playlist
- The sound of 103 micro drones launched from an F/A-18
- Alexa and Google Home Record What You Say. But What Happens to That Data?
- Emergency in Protest
- Four Tet Made a Playlist of Music from Trump's List of Banned Countries (billboard)
- Does Protest Music Matter Anymore?
- Networked Listening
Cities
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- 99% Invisible, Episode 1 - Noise
- Sounds of Street View (gallery; video overview)
- Stereo Public
- Sonic Boom (Burbon Street - NO)
- Rev. of Birdsall, Nazi Soundscapes
- The Photoshop of Sound
- How to Map a City: Part 1
- How to Map a City: Part 2
- Cities and Memory
- What City of Chicago Sounded Like Moment Cubs Won
- Acoustic Infrastructure – Special Issue
- A Planet of Cities
- Interactive Maps That Reveal What Cities Sound Like
- The Sound of 18th-Century Paris
- Making Sense of Sounds
- An Artist's Obsession with the Ruins of his Homeland
- Someone hacked every tornado siren in Dallas
- Prototyping Sounds (Noise Machines)
Technologies
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- How Hardware-Hacking Musicians Turn Tech into a Symphony
- Deantoni Parks: "For me, rhythm is the study of time."
- Tristan Shone - Author & Punisher*
- Skeleton Key (Gravity Is The Enemy - studio sessions)*
- Keith Rowe - Prepared Guitar*
- The Wall of Sound
- Reverb Community: Chris Schlarb and BIG EGO Studio
- An Engineer Takes Us Through The History of Abbey Road, the World's Most Famous Studio
- The Quietest Room in the World
- The World's Quietest Room
- Rhetorical Strategies for Sound Design
- The US woman who revolutionised electronic music
- A Brief History of The Studio As An Instrument: Part 1 - Early Reflections
- PBS Series - Soundbreaking(vid;blog;clip)
- The Distortion of Sound
- Why CDs May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl
- Spooky Music made by Abusing Turntables and Cutting up and Reforming Vinyl Records
- 808s and Heart Eyes
- File Compression Format Found to Alter Timbre of Music Causing Loss of some Emotional Context
- How do Cubans Make Electronic Music Without Reliable Internet?
- It’s Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves
- Forgotten Audio Formats: Wire Recording
- A Trip Through DJ Booths: 1976 - 2016
- How to Buy the Best Home Recording Studio Equipment: A Beginner's Guide
- AA Batteries Power Bastl Instrument's Pocket-sized Synth
- Download 150 Rare Vintage Drum Machines For Free Ninety-Nine
- Flying Eye Productions – Studio Blog
- How to Reimagine a Sound in 10 Easy Steps
- Music for Objects
- Cut-Up Writing (The Cut-Up Method)
- Enculturation, William S. Burroughs Teaches Writing
- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Reflects On William S. Burroughs' Sound Experiments (youtube)
- William S. Burroughs on UbuWeb Sound
- RIP: A Remix Manifesto
- Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the Remix
- NIN Tour Documentary, Part I - NIN Tour Documentary, Part II - NIN Tour Documentary, Teaser - Full show
- This music video was created by an algorithm that turns sound frequencies into landscapes
- This Beautiful Speaker Is Made of Concrete
Archive and Ontology
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- Gloves that turn Gestures into Music
- Scientists say your 'Mind' isn't Confined to your Brain, or even your Body
- Thomas Stanley, Sun Ra Symposium Keynote
- The Drone and the Use of the Drone
- Traveling the Spaceways: The Cult of Sun Ra
- Sun Ra - Night Music 1989
- Sun Ra Interview (Helsinki, 1971)
- Sun Ra Arkestra, Face the Music / Space is the Place
- Washington Park Project (Chicago, Sun Ra)
- Beyond Fela: A Guide to Early African Electronic Music
- The Musical Legacy of Amiri Baraka
- An Interview with Kodwo Eshun
- DJ Spooky Explains How Sound Shapes Our Understanding of Politics
- Reviving Archives through Remix: How a Dutch Archival Project is Reinvigorating Electronic Music
- Clemson doctoral student produces rap album for dissertation
- Audio Culture Syllabus (syllabus)
- This Is What Musical Notes Actually Look Like
- What Does Sound Look Like?
- Scientists Prove Schrodinger's Cat - Superposition like a Guitar String Vibrating
- He Puts His iPhone 4 Inside The Guitar
- The Top Ten Sounding Out! Posts of 2016
- Model of the Human Voice
- New AI Tech Can Mimic Any Voice
- Why Does Music Make Us Feel?
- New, Interactive Web Site Puts Online Thousands of International Folk Songs Recorded by the Great Folklorist Alan Lomax
- How NPR's Research, Archives, and Data Strategy team is saving sounds of the past for the future
- Recording of Kent State shooting reveals order to prepare to fire
- Ikoniadou, Lectures
Anthropocene
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- International Dawn Chorus Day
- When Birds Squawk, Other Species Seem to Listen
- Brazil's Blind Birdman
- Birds of New York: A Soundscape
- Scientists Document Wild Birds 'Talking' with Humans for the First Time
- World's Largest Natural Sound Archive
- World's Largest Natural Sound Archive
- British Library Recordings Available on Soundcloud
- Immerse Yourself in the Sounds of National Parks
- Forest Megaphone
- A Call to Save Natural Soundscapes
- Scientists Document Wild Birds 'Talking' with Humans for the First Time
- The Silencing of the Seas: How our Oceans are Going Quiet
- Campaign for Silent Oceans
- Drowned Out: People are Noisy and that's Bad News for Whales
- Navy Sonar Settlement Brings Historic Win for Whales
- Climate Change Has Produced a New Underwater Sound Superhighway
- Mysterious 'Ping' Sound from Sea Floor Baffles Igloolik
- How Does Katy Payne Record Elephant Infrasound? (The Elephant Listening Project)
- Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot
- A Carnivorous Plant has Learnt how to Communicate with Bats
- Inside the Spiritual World of Plant-Based Instruments
- Plants FM – Live Music Generated by Plants
- Trees Have Their Own Songs
- Radiolab, Argentine Invasion (The Ant War)
- 10 hours of ambient noise from an "icebreaker in the frozen arctic"
- Sound of crickets 'could become a thing of the past'
- Fish recorded signing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds
- Saint Louis Zoo gets a little noisier with new animal recordings project
- What’s It Like to Be an Octopus?
- Amazing Octopus - Most Intelligent Animal on Earth? (documentary)
- Listen to the sounds from the deepest hole ever dug into the Earth crust
- Ambient pioneer Midori Takada: 'Everything on this earth has a sound'
- NASA Discovers Stars and Planets Give off Music - Here's What it Sounds Like
- The Man Who Spent 30 Years in the Rainforest Preserving the Music of the Bayaka
- Sound Matters: Sex And Death In The Rain Forest
- 99% Invisible, Sounds Natural
- Tress Have Their Own Songs
- Meet the Biologist Who Says Trees Have Their Own Songs
- Tuned In: Plant Roots use Sound to Locate Water
- This Is Our First 'Sound' From the Creepy Void Inside Saturn's Rings
- Learning How to Be a Human Bat
- The Bloop – A Call from the Deep (Science Solved It)
- Recording Underwater Ambiences
- Sound as the Protagonist
- BBC Radio - Behind the Ears, Jump Blue
- How To Record Bird Sounds With Your Smartphone
- At South Carolina's only national park, paddle through some of the country's oldest trees
- 10 Ways to Listen to Trees
- Gorillas Make up little Food Songs when They Eat
- Climate Change: How do we Know?
- Temperatures around North Pole leap close to Melting Point
- How the Arctic became the Epicentre of Climate Science
- The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
- Dear Climate
- Global Warming Explained
- A Brief History of Global Warming
- What Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet
- We're Down to Half of the Fish in the Sea
- Can the Planet Support 11 Billion People?
- Scientists declare an Urgent Mission - Study West Antarctica, and Fast
- How Climate Change Shrank the Tongues of Long-Tongued Bumblebees
- Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold blob in the North Atlantic Ocean
- 2015 Likely to Be Hottest Year Ever Recorded
- What is Climate Change?
- Scientists made a detailed “roadmap” for meeting the Paris climate goals
- How Do We Know That Humans Are Causing Climate Change? These Nine Lines of Evidence
- A Song of Our Warming Planet: Cellist Turns 130 Years of Climate Change Data into Music
- The 'simple question' that can change your mind about global warming
- Why we all Need to Learn the Word 'Anthropogenic'
- Deep Mining, Deep Time - Rev. of Parikka's The Anthrobscene
- The Anthropocene Myth
- Anthropocene Fever
- AnthropoScene: A New Book Series from Penn State UP
- The Capitalscene
- Minimal Ethic for the Anthropocene
- The Anthropocene Epoch
- On Deanthropologizing Anthropology
- Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities (overview)
- Tavares, In The Forest Ruins
- Writing the Anthropocene: An Introduction
- Welcome to the Anthropocene: Five Signs Earth Is in a Man-Made Epoch
- Anthropocene Magazine
- Welcome to the Anthropocene – Sloterdijk and Stiegler
- Generation Anthropocene
- All of the Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living in the Anthropocene
- Welcome to the Anthropocene: A Reading List
- The Anthropocene: A Reading List
- Malabou, Anthropocene, A New History? 2015
- New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being
- How Do You Say 'Life' in Physics?
- Why Most Planets Will Either Be Lush or Dead
- A Universal Definition of Life
- Is Humanism Really Humane?
- Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It'll Be Gone
- 3 Big Myths about Modern Agriculture
- Life Is The Network, Not The Self
Virtual
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- What Silence Taught John Cage: The Story of 4'33''
- Is John Cage's 4'33'' music?
- 4'33'' App for iPhone
- Brian Eno Plays the Universe
- Experimental Music Since 1970
- Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music (1920-2007) (Cage, Sun Ra, etc.)
- The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937-2001)
- Survey of Contemporary Ambient Music
- Eco: Interviews about the exploration of sound in Latin America by female artists - Elizabeth Polanco
- Fifty Years of Limitless Possibility at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
- Colloquium: Sound Art and Music
- Striving for Diversity in Experimental Music
- The Composers of Quiet
- Between Music / AquaSonic "Breaking The Surface"
- Christoph Cox on The History of Sound Art
- Sound Art Matters, Full Lectures by Brian Kane, Frances Dyson, Wolfgang Ernst and Cathy Lane
- A Conversation With Brian Eno About Ambient Music
- Why Foucault’s work on power is more important than ever
- Unified theory of evolution (Darwin + Lamarck and epigenetics)
- Sonify Earthquakes Worldwide
- Earthquake
- Schulz, The Really Big One
- Lucier, Alvin Lucier - Sferics
- Helmreich, Gravity's Reverb: Listening to Space-Time, or Articulating the Sounds of Gravitational-Wave Detection
- Smart Skin Patch Listens to your Body Sounds, from Heart to Gut
- Protein Music - Turning Molecular Movement into Music
- Turning Data into Sound
- Melody Discrimination and Protein Fold Classification
- Kahn, Introduction Earth Sound Earth Signal
- Eerie Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions
- Ice Sculptor Creates Frozen Playable Instruments for an Igloo Symphony
Podcasts
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- 100 Outstanding Audio Stories of 2016
- 10 Years of Podcasting: Code, Comedy, and Patent Lawsuits
- This is your Brain on Podcasts
- Can Audio go Viral on Facebook?
- Podcast Producer Nate Dalton On Background Music, Radio's Second Golden Age, and More
- The Podcast Invasion
- The Future Of Podcasting
- Fiction Podcasts are Finally a Thing
- How to Listen to Podcasts: A Guide That Still Has to Be Written in 2015
- Why Listening to Podcasts Helps Kids Improve Reading Skills
- Creating Podcasts with Your Students
- Podcasting in the Rhetoric Classroom
- Podcasting with Students
- Writing with Sound – Ceraso's Podcasting Course
- Writing with Sound – Boyle's Podcasting Course
- Writing with Sound – Hawk's Podcasting Course
- Ever thought of podcasting your research?
- Soundcloud (upload)
- Soundcloud for Podcasters
- How To Share Soundcloud to Facebook
- How To Share Soundcloud to Twitter
- How To Submit a Podcast to iTunes (video)
- iTunes Podcast FAQ
- Submitting a Podcast to iTunes
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