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Readings 12 – Empiricism(s) (Tkaczyk, Mills and Hui (eds.); Volmar) – Next meeting, Friday April 9th 2020 @ 1 p.m. (Eastern) / 6 p.m. (Dublin)

March 16, 2021

Hello everyone, Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. This month we are reading around the theme of Empiricism(s). We’ll be reading: Tkaczyk, Viktoria, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui, eds. 2020. Testing Hearing: The Making of … Continue reading →

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Readings 11 – Non-anthropocentric histories of sound and technology (Mundy, Born) – Next meeting, Friday March 12th 2020 @ 1 p.m. (Eastern) / 6 p.m. (Dublin)

February 20, 2021

Hello everyone, Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. This month we are reading around the theme of Non-anthropocentric histories of sound and technology. The assigned readings are: Born, Georgina. “On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation.” In … Continue reading →

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Readings 10 – Adorno on Radio – Next meeting, Friday February 12th 2020 @ 12 p.m. (Eastern) / 5 p.m. (London)

January 19, 2021

Hi everyone, We’re looking forward to kicking things off for 2020 with Adorno’s essay “Radio Physiognomics”, which Adorno prepared while he was affiliated with the long-running Princeton Radio Project in the late 30s to the early 1940s. Adorno was never … Continue reading →

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Readings 09 – Kromhout – Next meeting October 23 @ 12 p.m. (Eastern) / 5 p.m. (Dublin/London)

October 19, 2020

Hello all, A note to say that our next meeting is this Friday October 23 at 12p.m. / 5p.m. as usual. Following the results of the poll below, we’ll be reading Melle Kromhout’s recent publication, “Hearing Pastness and Presence” (2020), … Continue reading →

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Bell response to McKittrick/Weheliye, “808s & Heartbreak”

September 15, 2020

I know I made it seem like I would write up some thoughts on this in the thread, but they are so diffuse… I broadly really enjoyed this piece and I think there is a way to tie this into … Continue reading →

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Readings 08 – McKittrick/Weheliye – Next meeting September 15 @ 12 p.m. (EDT) / 5 p.m. (BST)

September 8, 2020

Hi all, Just a post to say that the next reading will be McKittrick and Weheliye’s “808s & Heartbreak” and we’ll be meeting meet.jit.si/taxis for at 12 noon (Eastern) / 5 p.m. (London) on Tuesday, September 15 to discuss. Please … Continue reading →

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Readings 07 – Next meeting August 10 @ 12 p.m. (EDT) / 5 p.m. (BST)

August 3, 2020

Hi all, Our next meeting will be August 10, 2020 at 12 p.m. (EDT) / 5 p.m. (BST) and we’ll be discussing Robin James’s recent book, The Sonic Episteme. This time we’ll all be reading the introduction plus one chapter … Continue reading →

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Readings 06 – Next meeting on 7/11

July 6, 2020

We’ll be meeting on Saturday July 11th at noon (EDT) / 5 p.m. (BST) to discuss the introduction and third chapter of Marie Thompson’s Beyond Unwanted Noise. Reach out ot us for a pdf and/or a link for the meeting. … Continue reading →

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Readings 05 – [RESCHEDULED] 6/20, 11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. BST — Watkins (excerpts from Musical Vitalities)

June 8, 2020

Hi everyone, As we agreed, we’ll go with excerpts from Holly Watkins’s book, Musical Vitalities (Chicago, 2018). We’ll be reading the introduction and Chapter 6, “On Not Letting Sounds Be Themselves”, which you can download from here. Here’s the blurb … Continue reading →

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Readings 04 ­– Next meeting 5/29, noon Eastern / 5pm London : intro and ch.4 of Iverson’s “Electronic Inspirations”

May 21, 2020

On Friday next week (5/29) at noon (Eastern Time) / 5pm (London) we’ll be discussing the intro and chapter 4 of Jennifer Iverson’s Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde, that chapter is titled “Reclaiming Technology: From Information … Continue reading →

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