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Mack Hagood
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Sound scholar. Author. Subscribe to Phantom Power, a podcast + newsletter about sound at mackhagood.com.
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New on Phantom Power: synth legend Suzanne Ciani, New Age pioneer and second woman to score a Hollywood film. She tells us quadraphonic sound is superior, synths shouldn't have keyboards, and more. Spicy takes from the Diva of the Diode!

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May 29, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Do fish have ears? How does aquatic hearing differ from ours? To save the planet, do we need to learn to listen like the fishes? Today's Phantom Power guest is marine biologist and bioacoustics expert Sophie Nedelec. #sound

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Wearing a wetsuit, marine biologist Sophie Nedelec drives a motorboat on calm seas with an island in the background.
April 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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This week on Phantom Power: Yellow Swans' Gabriel Mindel on #sound, power, and Minneapolis. His research and criticism on noise, protest, and settler-colonialism couldn't be more relevant.

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Image from Al Jazeera: a Minneapolis protester blows a whistle in the face of ICE's Gregory Bovino.
January 31, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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My next book, The End of Listening, is now under contract with Penguin Press!

We'll meet the developers of emerging technologies intended to give us complete control of the sounds around us. The dream of vanquishing noise is as old as antiquity--but what would it mean to actually succeed?
Publishers Marketplace announcement: "Miami University professor of media and communications and author of HUSH Mack Hagood‘s THE END OF LISTENING: WHAT WE LOSE WHEN WE CANCEL NOISE, about the unintended consequences of the rise of "the orphic industries"—from white noise machines and noise-canceling headphones to nature sound apps and in-ear, AI-driven "hearables"—whose stories raise urgent ethical, political, and societal questions, not the least of which is whether the very technologies we rely on to help control our stress-inducing environments might be eroding our emotional resilience and connection to society, to Penguin Press, at auction."
January 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Anyone else had this stuck in their head for the past 48 hours?
Album cover of Chuck Mangione's Feels So Good. It displays a bearded, longhaired man in black fedora and red shirt, smiling and hugging a flugelhorn.
December 11, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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About to resurrect this motherfucker.
Portrait of self with fur hat and deflated snowman on ground
December 7, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Worst Final Boss ever.
Amazon list of Boss music devices ends with a Boss slipper.
December 1, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Currently writing a script for the forthcoming podcast How to Listen.

In this scene, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, describes "noise" as objective and "sound" as intersubjective.

#noise #sound #zen
Black and white film still of a thin Asian man with a beaming smile and a shaven head, wearing black robes. Behind him is an altar with a Buddha statue.
November 21, 2024 at 3:28 PM