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Art of Noise

A multi-sensory exploration of how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years.

Sound Obsessed — collection

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians

tracklist:// — the world is listening

music without limits

Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ... - Freakonomics

Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ... - Freakonomics

Geese

Artist · 1.5M monthly listeners.

Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering

Another dance around fears of open-source.

Jeff Mills Drifts Into the Cosmos

AI is the latest of a long succession of tools trying to make things easier for us, and it’s always been there, and it’s always affected the music. Maybe we didn’t fear as much, but musicians just have to be more creative and to be more elusive.

Noise — binaural beats generator

Binaural beats, Shepard tones, harmonic overtones, and noise generator. Keeps playing when your phone sleeps.

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The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology. Reading time: ~4 minute read | Published: Aug 18, 2026 | Updated: Sep 12, 2026

Digital feeds, malnourished students — Phantom Power

Today we’re doing one of our occasional episodes where host Mack Hagood talks about a new essay he’s written for our newsletter “Feed Logic and the Failure to Thrive” Mack writes that students and professors are struggling, both academically and spiritually. He tries to diagnose the issue he felt in his classrooms this year and the role technology may play in it. For new listeners, Mack is a writer and researcher who studies sound, technology, and culture. He is the author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control, a book on noise-canceling headphones, white noise, tinnitus, and the ways people use sound to manage modern life. He is currently writing a new book for Penguin Press, and he also hosts this podcast Phantom Power, where he interviews artists, scholars, musicians, and sound designers about the invisible power of sound in everyday life. Besides all that, Mack is a university professor and that’s what his most recent essay is about. Click here to read the newsletter for free. Cited Media: Film:Mary…

Appreciating Alan Wake’s Adverb Apocalypse

Alan Wake wears the veil of pulp horror with all the silliness it entails, hiding a valuable message about art under its surface.

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