The Analog Age
A day and a half of events considering the shift from analog to digital in advance of Digital Humanities Week with special guest
Author and聽聽host Damon Krukowski will be on campus for a series of events sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center in collaboration with The Department of English.聽On Thursday听补迟听4:30聽he鈥檒l discuss聽聽with MHC director Jennifer Moxley in an event that is free and open to the public (Stewart Commons 104). Krukowski will also be visiting CMJ 237: Journalism Across Platforms聽on Thursday聽and ENG 408: Advanced Poetry Workshop聽on Friday. A catered lunch in the Wicks Room is scheduled for聽Friday聽from noon to 2pm; the topic of discussion is 鈥淣egative Capabilities, Cage, noise and poetry.鈥 If you鈥檙e interested in attending the lunch-time discussion please RSVP to english.chair@maine.edu听产测听Wednesday (Septemeber 27th)听补迟听4:30pm.
Damon Krukowski:
Recording technologies can become outdated or obsolescent, but does sound itself have an age? If so, what does it sound like? How do we hear 鈥渁ge鈥 in the temporal medium of sound recording? We may assume that the 鈥淎nalog Age鈥 is gone for good, replaced by the 鈥淒igital Age,鈥 but in his new book , and podcast Ways of Hearing hosted by Radiotopia author and musician Damon Krukowski takes this assumption back to basics to build a thought-provoking argument asserting the necessity of 鈥渘oise.鈥 Krukowski helps us understand how recording technologies can have a huge impact on we are and are not hearing in our world.
Damon Krukowski is the author of The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in the Digital World, which Alex Ross called 鈥渁 radical defense of analog craft in the face of the digital hard sell.鈥 The Kirkus Review said that 鈥淜rukowski turns the basic dichotomy of audio engineering, the ratio of signal to noise, into a complex metaphor for the loss of history and ingenuity represented by the replacement of analog recording and culture with digital media.鈥 Krukowski鈥檚 six-part podcast, Ways of Hearing, went live on Radiotopia鈥檚 Showcase on August 4. Krukowski was in the indie rock band Galaxie 500 and is currently one half of the folk-rock duo Damon & Naomi. He has written for Pitchfork, Artforum, Bookforum, Frieze, The Wire, and on his blog聽International Sad Hits. In addition, he has published two books of prose poetry and serves as co-publisher of the literary press Exact Change.
Schedule:
Thursday September 28:
4:30-6PM A discussion between Jennifer Moxley (MHC Director) and Damon Krukowski on his book聽The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World.聽 This event is free and open to the public.聽Stewart Commons 104.
Friday聽September 29:
12-2PM: Loose round table discussion: Negative Capabilities, Cage, noise and poetry. Catered lunch in Wicks Room,聽please RSVP to聽english.chair@maine.edu听产测听Wednesday (Septemeber 27th)听补迟听4:30pm if you want to attend.聽
The Analog Age is sponsored by the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Department of English and is part of the 2017-2018 year-long symposium: Juvenescence/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging聽across the Ages.