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Item‘All possible sounds’: speech, music, and the emergence of machine listening(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)‘Machine listening’ is one common term for a fast-growing interdisciplinary field of science and engineering that ‘uses signal processing and machine learning to extract useful information from sound’. This article contributes to the critical literature on machine listening by presenting some of its history as a field. From the 1940s to the 1990s, work on artificial intelligence and audio developed along two streams. There was work on speech recognition/understanding, and work in computer music. In the early 1990s, another stream began to emerge. At institutions such as MIT Media Lab and Stanford’s CCRMA, researchers started turning towards ‘more fundamental problems of audition’. Propelled by work being done by and alongside musicians, speech and music would increasingly be understood by computer scientists as particular sounds within a broader ‘auditory scene’. Researchers began to develop machine listening systems for a more diverse range of sounds and classification tasks: often in the service of speech recognition, but also increasingly for their own sake. The soundscape itself was becoming an object of computational concern. Today, the ambition is ‘to cover all possible sounds’. That is the aspiration with which we must now contend politically, and which this article sets out to historicize and understand.
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ItemHow To Run a Writing Workshop? On the Cultivation of Scholarly Ethics in ‘Global’ Legal Education’(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018)This article does two main things. First, it records and shares a methodology for running a writing workshop in the context of transnational doctoral and post-doctoral legal education. Second, it offers a critical reflection on this methodology, and in doing so draws out some more general lessons for thinking about our roles as scholars and teachers in the contemporary university. Our thesis is that the unusually formal, even stylised, structure of the writing workshops we describe not only offers participants an opportunity for detailed feedback on their work, but also helps to foster a certain ethics of scholarly conduct. This ethics emphasises the intimacy of scholarly relations on the one hand, and the importance of listening on the other. Such an ethics may be antithetical to some of the more insidious imperatives of the contemporary university.
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ItemThe soundscape of justice(Informa UK Limited, 2011-01-01)
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ItemThe Trouble with Contemporary Music Criticism: Retromania, Retro-historicism and History(Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
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ItemTowards an acoustic jurisprudence: Law and the long range acoustic device(SAGE Publications, 2018-06-01)This article argues for a shift in how we relate to legal thought, practice and experience. It argues for a specifically acoustic jurisprudence, an orientation towards law attuned to questions of sound and listening. The argument is made in the abstract before moving on to an example intended to establish the political stakes of the intervention. My example is the Long Range Acoustic Device, invented at the turn of the century and used increasingly today by military and police forces as a way of amplifying the authority of the state and, in some instances, enacting serious acoustic violence.
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ItemAcoustic Jurisprudence Listening to the Trial of Simon Bikindi(Oxford University Press, USA, 2015-09-01)All the while, judges, barristers, and witnesses alike spoke into microphones and listened through headphones. As a result, the Bikindi case offers an ideal opportunity to explore what this book calls the 'judicial soundscape'.