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Phantom Power

Phantom Power

Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer

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Mack Hagood explores how sound works in the arts, music, and culture. Deep but accessible, each episode features the sounds and ideas of a contemporary artist, musician, or sound scholar. Detailed production makes these more than just interviews–they’re movies for your mind.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Phantom Power episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Phantom Power for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Phantom Power episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Phantom Power - Dead Air (John Biguenet and Rodrigo Toscano)
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03/12/18 • 36 min

On our first episode of Phantom Power, we ponder those moments when the air remains unmoved. Whether fostered by design or meteorological conditions or technological glitch, the absence of sound sometimes affects us more profoundly than the audible. We begin with author ... Continue reading →

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The World According to Sound is the brainchild of two rogue audionauts who rebelled against the NPR mothership: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett. It began as a micro podcast that held one unique sound under the microscope for 90 seconds ... Continue reading →

The post The World According to Sound (Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett) appeared first on Phantom Power.

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This episode, we take you behind the scenes of Phantom Power. Producer/host Mack Hagood was invited by Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead to be a guest on their show, The Podcast Studies Podcast. As you may or may not know, ... Continue reading →

The post How Our Sonic Sausage Gets Made (Mack Hagood w/ Dario Llinares & Lori Beckstead) appeared first on Phantom Power.

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Phantom Power - Bonus Episode: Jonathan Sterne [excerpt]
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11/18/22 • 24 min

Today we feature an excerpt from our nearly 2-hour bonus episode for Patrons. In the full interview from last season's episode "Dork-o-Phonics," Jonathan Sterne discusses topics such as the early days of sound studies, how his upbringing and a music school rejection led him to sound, his illness and vocal impairment, and a lot of fascinating ideas about voice, media, disability, and more. Continue reading →

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Phantom Power - A Philosophy of Echoes with Amit Pinchevski
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05/24/23 • 58 min

Amit Pinchevski challenges the notion that echo is mere repetition. Instead, echo is a generative medium. Just as a baby first learns to speak by repeating the sounds of others, a philosophy of echoes reminds us that our own agency and creativity reside in repetitions that respond to the past. Continue reading →

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Phantom Power - HEY, ROBOT! (Frank Lantz)
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01/08/21 • 25 min

Today, we’re playing with voice assistants and thinking about the role of voices in gaming with our guest, game designer and NYU professor Frank Lantz. Over the past nightmare year of the coronavirus, many of us have been hunkered down, ... Continue reading →

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Phantom Power - Cosmic Visions in Sound
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01/12/24 • 21 min

Today we share a podcast episode on the visual epistemology of astronomy by our friends at The World According to Sound. What kind of knowledge do we really gain when we look at images from space?

Longtime listeners to this show will remember The World According to Sound. As we referred to them two years ago, WATS is a team of two rogue audionauts who rebelled against the NPR mothership: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett. Tired of sound playing second fiddle to narrative on NPR, they launched a micro podcast that held one unique sound under the microscope for 90 seconds each episode. Later, WATS became much more ambitious, producing live sonic odysseys in 8-channel surround sound and live online sound journeys during the pandemic.

Since then, Harnett and Hoff have embarked on another project. For the past couple of years, they have been partnering with different universities to translate humanities research into compelling sound-designed narrative podcasts. The first season of Ways of Knowing was produced in partnership with the University of Washington and it focused on different analytical methods and disciplines in the humanities, from close reading, deconstruction, and translational analysis, to black studies, material culture, and disability studies. The second season just wrapped up. It’s called Cosmic Visions and it’s produced in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University and that’s what we’ll hear an episode from today. Just this week, they dropped the last episode of season two and now the entire series is available on The World According to Sound website.

We wanted to draw your attention to this series because turning humanities research and sound art into a sonic narrative experience was the original mission of Phantom Power. We know that many of you are interested in this area of humanities podcasting as well, so if you’re not already a fan of Chris and Sam’s work, check it out. We also wanted to share this particular episode because it also provides one answer to a tricky question: How do you do a sonic explication of something that is entirely visual?

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Phantom Power - Under Construction

Under Construction

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02/21/20 • 7 min

It’s been a minute, so in this short episode, we update you on what’s happening with Phantom Power and what’s coming in 2020. The big (and sad) news is that co-host cris cheek is departing. After two years of lending ... Continue reading →

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Phantom Power - A Book Unbound (Jacob Smith)
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03/28/19 • 39 min

What would it be like if scholars presented their research in sound rather than in print? Better yet, what if we could hear them in the act of their research and analysis, pulling different historical sounds from the archives and ... Continue reading →

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Phantom Power - What is Radio Art (Colin Black)
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03/13/20 • 40 min

What is radio art? It’s a rather unfamiliar term in the United States, but in other countries, it’s a something of an artistic tradition. Today’s guest, Dr. Colin Black is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning radio artist and composer. He speaks ... Continue reading →

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FAQ

How many episodes does Phantom Power have?

Phantom Power currently has 65 episodes available.

What topics does Phantom Power cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Music and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Phantom Power?

The episode title 'The World According to Sound (Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett)' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Phantom Power?

The average episode length on Phantom Power is 43 minutes.

How often are episodes of Phantom Power released?

Episodes of Phantom Power are typically released every 22 days, 20 hours.

When was the first episode of Phantom Power?

The first episode of Phantom Power was released on Mar 12, 2018.

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