Digital Sound Studies

“Listen up. Be provoked. This adventurous book offers experiments, meditations, analyses, and ideas for a noisier digital humanities, for creative play with the intersection of print and sound recording, and for humanistic approaches to sound that could be rendered in the digital realm. Teachers, theorists, and scholar-artists who want to take new risks will find it timely and refreshing.” - Louise Meintjes, author of Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid

“This much-needed book inaugurates a new and interdisciplinary field—digital sound studies—at the intersection of sound studies and digital humanities. Its contributors rigorously explore a wide array of methodologies and practices—pedagogy, archival work, computational analysis, deformation, and platform building—to mark out the possibilities and risks of working in an emerging discipline through experimental modes.” - Tara McPherson, author of Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design

"Digital Sound Studies contributors prompt productive conversations even while probing assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academia. . . . These essays explore the urgency and necessity of incorporating sonic experience into scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive." - John F. Barber, Leonardo Reviews

"Digital Sound Studies offers a fascinating variety of perspectives on digital sound studies ... Works that link digital humanities and sound studies are somewhat rare, and the present volume is a rich addition to a growing body of knowledge. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - M. Anderson, Choice

"Sound in this book is interpreted mainly as a tool to accomplish different strategies, and not as the main object of investigation. Its unconventional use in unusual areas is intended to inspire and to enable distinct approaches. And the aim of the editors seems to assemble a wider arena where these different methodologies can communicate to each other, possibly producing further cross-pollinated experiments." - Neural

"Digital Sound Studies fuses theory and critical thinking with creative sonic practices, a fusion that is both promising and very appealing." - Vincent Meelberg, Journal of Sonic Studies

“This text provides a contemporary possibility of classroom and research work that is innovative and communal. The essays in Digital Sound Studies examine how sound is contained but held in the body, held through the body but heard through institutions and a cacophony of additional casual, aural effects.” - Kimberly Williams, Journal for the Society of American Music

“Digital Sound Studies ... is an excellent resource for people interested in non-conventional experiences that defy standard and mainstream methods of learning and teaching within the humanities. It invites critical thought from cultural, social, and artistic frameworks, with a sustained and sustainable focus on the potential of sound and listening.” - Tracey El Hajj, Digital Humanities Quarterly

“Digital Sound Studies is a provocation and a resource: timely in its inquiries and generative in its scope. In chapter after chapter, the reader encounters essays written in a register of experimental play, a quality which enacts a genre-bending intellectual style predicated on listening.” - Joella Bitter, Technology and Culture