Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 01, 2009, 09:53 AM

Emily Thompson is one of the best thinkers out there on how we hear and the relationship between aurality and culture.  Her lecture on "The Soundscape of Modernity" is now available on video from MIT Press which also published her book,  The Soundscape of Modernity:  Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933.   

Submitted by michael.a.gavin on Oct 20, 2008, 09:47 AM
Oct. 23, 2008: The Center for Cultural Analysis (Rutgers University)

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 06, 2008, 01:24 AM
Last night we Bogliasco Fellows had the pleasure to attend a concert by a former fellow, the composer and pianist Robert Levin. He played the exact same two sonatas by Beethoven on the fortepiano and then on the pianoforte, the latter being the huge grand piano on which modern audiences have heard Beethoven played many times. Beethoven was not Beethoven on the fortepiano for which he composed. Hmmm . . . was McLuhan really right in that technodeterminism, that the medium is the message? (Short answer: no, but, well, let's think about it).