Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month, we’re joined by Dr. Jacob Smith, professor of Sound Arts at Northwestern University and author of Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves (2021). Together Jacob and I talk about tricky work of multimodal scholarship in practice from embracing the slowness of working with sound to thinking about audio right from the start of your project ideation.

Find the episode transcript and more at https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/

Guest bio: Jacob Smith is co-founder and director of the Master of Arts in Sound Arts and Industries, and professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film. He is the author of Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media (University of California Press 2008); Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures (University of California Press 2011); The Thrill Makers: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance (University of California Press 2012); Eco-Sonic Media (University of California Press, 2015); and two experimental audiobooks: ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene (University of Michigan Press 2019) and Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves (University of Michigan Press, 2021). He writes and teaches about the cultural history of media, with a focus on sound and the relationship between media and the environment.

Works Referenced:

Smith, J. (2021). Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves. Michigan University Press. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11714652

Smith, J. (2019). ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene. Michigan University Press. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.10120795

Sterne, J. (2019). “Multimodal Scholarship in World Soundscape Project Composition: Toward a Different Media-Theoretical Legacy (Or: The WSP as OG DH), In Sound, Media, Ecology, eds. M. Droumea & R. Jordan. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 85-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_5 

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