World According to Sound offers immersive audio experience March 23
A sonic experience where the audience sits blindfolded is returning to Cornell March 23 for a 6 p.m. performance in Sage Chapel.
Media are the means through which society is reflected, tested, challenged, and changed. Our Media Studies program encompasses a broad historical reach and encourages collaborative interaction among the disciplines from classics to information science. Exploring diverse modes of communication from hieroglyphs to algorithms, Media Studies allows students to gain skills in interpretation, evaluation and formal media production.
Just launched: Media Objects Podcast
Media Objects is a new podcast produced by The World According to Sound and Cornell Media Studies. Each episode considers a different media object, from office plants and listservs, to hieroglyphs, HTML, and mixtapes. Featuring the voices of thirteen Cornell Media Studies faculty, each sonic essay comprises a series of scenes, quotes, vignettes, and other fragments, all threaded together through sound.
Subscribe to The World According to Sound on your podcast feed, stream the episodes from their website, or listen here:
Upcoming Events
Mar
19
Thursday
05:15 PM
An Evening with Nona Hendryx: A Conversation on Life, Music, and Creative Practice
Milstein Hall
Milstein Auditorium
Mar
23
Monday
06:00 PM
The World According to Sound: Ways of Knowing
Sage Chapel
Apr
20
Monday
04:30 PM
Collaborative Filmmaking; Indigenous Media
Cornell Cinema
Apr
27
Monday
04:30 PM
Sensory Ethnography
Cornell Cinema
Media Studies News
Professor’s book probes afterlife of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela
In 2013, Latin American studies scholar Irina R. Troconis went back to Venezuela after the death of Hugo Chávez to find herself trapped in the presence of the leader’s ghostly eyes.
The Chronicle spoke with Troconis about the book “The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.”
Poets in Japan experiment at the edge of media
During the past century, experimental poets in Japan have been stretching the conventional definition of the genre by creating poems in unexpected places: augmented reality apps, manipulated tape recorders, music videos, protest performances and other hybrid forms.
In “Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media,” Andrew Campana, assistant professor of Asian studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, writes about several of these poets and their work.
A&S spoke with Campana about the book.
Nintendo music app ‘rivals major record labels,’ not just for gamers
Some of Nintendo's music has attained classic status, says music professor Roger Moseley.
Crowdfunding launch supports Ways of Knowing podcast at Cornell
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique
In his new book, “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums,” published this month by University of California Press, Jeremy Braddock, associate professor in the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences, explores the group’s evolution and its legacy.
The Chronicle spoke with Braddock about the book.
Cornell crafts multifaceted game studies program
The field of game studies is growing at Cornell, including an expanded set of classes, workshops and symposia and a growing library collection of games.
CIVIC Interactive Media and Games, Spring Symposium
CIVIC Interactive Media and Games, Spring Symposium
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Affirming the centrality of media to our times
Cornell Media Studies is unique for its broad historical reach, and for the collaborative interaction among the disciplines from Classics to Information Science.