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Mack Hagood

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Scholar, writer, and creator who specializes in sound and listening. Podcast and newsletter at mackhagood.com.
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Who is this person trolling me so expertly at work?!
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11 days ago
My newsletter series on mobile listening technology puts on the Walkman today. Website in bio!
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15 days ago
Self proclaimed NASA brat, William Basinski, shares his childhood celebrity encounter. Make sure to subscribe to my newsletter for the latest Phantom Power episodes and bonus content! @spectrevisionradio @musex1 @tempresltd @neilarmstrongofficial
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16 days ago
In trying to digitally preserve his 1980s tapes, Basinski discovered a piece of his career defining work: The Disintegration Loops. Make sure to subscribe to my newsletter for the latest Phantom Power episodes and bonus content! @spectrevisionradio @musex1 @tempresltd
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18 days ago
Ambient legend William Basinski joins me in the latest episode of Phantom Power, a podcast about sound. We discuss everything from his childhood as a NASA brat to his famed Disintegration Loops to his current North American tour. Make sure to subscribe to my newsletter for the latest Phantom Power episodes and bonus content! Listen to this episode and more with the link in my bio.
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22 days ago
Do fish have ears? How does sound work differently underwater? If humans are the evolutionary descendants of ocean creatures, do we retain any fishy traces in the way we hear the world? Find answers to all these questions and more in the latest episode of Phantom Power with guest Dr. Sophie Nedelec. Make sure to subscribe to my newsletter for the latest Phantom Power episodes and bonus content! #PhantomPower #UnderwaterSound #MarineBiology #Acoustics #Evolution #Podcast #Hearing #Science @spectrevision
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1 month ago
A quote from the latest episode of Phantom Power featuring Julie Shapiro, as we consider how the internet and social media has changed both the creative industry and our own ways of thinking. Listen to ‘The Internet Promised Creative Freedom. What Happened?’ and many more like it on my page. Make sure to subscribe to my newsletter for the latest Phantom Power episodes and bonus content using the link in my bio! 🔗
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2 months ago
‘The Internet Promised Creative Freedom. What Happened?’ Check out the latest episode of Phantom Power, a podcast about sound. Julie Shapiro joins me again in the latest episode of Phantom Power, where we discuss what it means to be creative in the year 2026. From indie roots and zines, to finding the balance between art for art’s sake and economic security, how do we support independent audio creation and intriguing narrative stories? Make sure to subscribe to my newsletter for the latest Phantom Power episodes and bonus content! Listen to this episode and more with the link in my bio. 🔗
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2 months ago
Do you use white noise or other ambient sounds to relax, sleep or concentrate? Sound scholar Mack Hagood joined me for a fascinating conversation from white noise apps, to tinnitus, to Irv Teibel's forgotten Environments series. Listen now and rethink the sounds you live with! (Linktree and website in bio @conversations_with_musicians ) #soundstudies #mediastudies #conversationswithmusicians #societyandculturepodcast
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5 months ago
Out now on @phantompowerpodcast , we talk to Mack Hagood on the episode: ’Irv Teibel’s Environments, AI Audio, and the Future of Listening w/ Machine Listening’. Listen by Phantom Power podcast, at mackhagood.com @mactra for the full audio, video and transcript, or wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧 ‘How did we humans become so dependent on white noise machines, noise-canceling headphones, lo-fi girl and other technologies that help us privatise and individualise our soundscape? An important character in that cultural history is Irv Teibel, whose Environments series helped change how we listen… [by using] recorded natural soundscapes as technologies to change how we feel and function. ‘ Machine Listening’s Environments 12 album reimagines Teibel’s 1970s Environments albums—those “relaxation records” made for stressed-out people—as a set of soundscapes made for the stressed-out environment itself. You can get Environments 12 @futura_resistenza at @naturestriprecords_naarm @repressedrecords 🌀
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