Vibrations and how they get to your ears.
Noise for airports is a blog about culture, sound, music, and technology.
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Updated (sometimes) by Nick Seaver.
School starts up for me in a few days.
I’ve been trying to avoid too much metablogging on here, because I have found it to be a black hole that sucks up all my posting energy into posts about posting. But, since I’m about to get a whole lot busier, I wanted to make an effort to connect my coursework to the content on this blog.
That way, work on my thesis might count as work on the blog and (hopefully) vice versa. In the spirit of connecting things together, here is my recently freshened up bio from my program’s web site.
Nick Seaver graduated with a BA in interdisciplinary literature from Yale (2007). As an undergraduate, his interest in sonic media led him to research the relationship between the technology of sound reproduction and social conceptions of “noise.” At CMS, he is studying indeterminacy and control in sound transmission, the role of “skill” in aesthetic judgments, and the history of automatic musical instruments.
His academic work is supplemented by experiments in computer-aided composition that combine experimental music processes with pop music materials. In addition to his work in sonic media, Nick has a longstanding interest in the history of the book, which led him to spend a year training full-time as a hand bookbinder at Boston’s North Bennet Street School.
If any of that sounds interesting to you, I hope you’ll keep checking up on the blog for more updates from my academic work, as the posts here will probably take a little shift from “nifty youtubes” to “thoughts about the piano as an interface.” And, if it sounds really interesting to you, I hope you’ll drop me a line in the comments or through email.
It’s going to be a good year, I hope.
