Aaron Trammell

Co-Founder and Multimedia Editor Aaron Trammell is a PhD Candidate at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. He is also a board game designer and musician. His dissertation explores the fanzines and politics of underground wargame communities in Cold War America. You can learn more about his work at aarontrammell.com.

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Posts for Sounding Out!

Video Gaming and the Sonic Feedback of Surveillance: Bastion and The Stanley Parable, 25 March 2013

SO! Reads: Jonathan Sterne’s MP3: The Meaning of a Format, 5 November 2012

Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #8: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop (The Awesomeness)!, 27 July 2012

In the Flesh: Embodiment, Listening, and Transcription, 2 July 2012

Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #6: Spaces of Listening / The Record Shop, 19 April 2012

Orality and Cybernetics in Battleship, 5 March 2012

Pushing Record: Labors of Love, and the iTunes Playlist, 3 October 2011

GLaDOS, the Voice of Postfeminist Control, 1 August 2011

Garageland! Authenticity and Musical Taste, 5 September 2011

Sounding Out! Podcast #3: Awesome Sounds from a Future Boombox, 27 July 2011

Becoming a Bad Listener: Labyrinthitis, Vertigo, and “Passing”, 6 June 2011

Listening to Robots Sing: Garageband on iPad, 4 April 2011

#Tigerblood: Charlie Sheen and Affective Listening, 7 March 2011

Listening to Interiors, Silo #5, 7 February 2011

Y2K, Collective Ritual, and Sound in the New Millenium, 17 January 2011

Bob Seger, Champion of Misfits, 6 December 2010

Remix the Libraries / Collaborative Listening, 1 November 2010

Genre in the Age of Convergence: Mario Paint Composer, 6 October 2010

The Role of Sound in Video Games: Pong, Limbo, and Interactivity, 8 September 2010

What Mixtapes Can Teach Us About Noise: Reading Shannon and Weaver in 2010, 4 August 2010

A Series of Mistakes: Nullsleep and the Art of 8-bit Composition, 15 July 2010

Re: Chuck Klosterman – “Tomorrow Rarely Knows”, 17 June 2010

Formations of Control in Underground Venues, 8 April 2010

Manufacturing Rebellion, Censorship in Music, 22 November 2009

Fandom, Elvis Costello, and Goodbye Cruel World, 10 September 2009

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