Aaron Trammell

Co-Founder and Multimedia Editor Aaron Trammell is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar for Faculty Diversity in Informatics and Digital Knowledge at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He earned his doctorate from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information in 2015. Aaron’s research is focused on revealing historical connections between games, play, and the United States military-industrial complex. He is interested in how military ideologies become integrated into game design and how these perspectives are negotiated within the imaginations of players. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analog Game Studies and the Multimedia Editor of Sounding Out!

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Posts for Sounding Out!

Sounding Out! Podcast #48: Sound and Sexuality in Video Games, 19 November, 2015

Sounding Out! Podcast #39: Soundwalking New Brunswick, NJ and Davis, CA, 26 February, 2015

The Dark Side of Game Audio: The Sounds of Affective Control and Mimetic Conditioning, 13 October 2014

Revising the Future of Music Technology, 13 March 2014

Sounding Out! Podcast #27: Interview with Jonathan Sterne, 27 March, 2014

Sounding Out! Podcast #25: Interview with Aram Sinnreich, 30 January, 2014

Experiments in Aural Resistance: Nordic Role-Playing, Community, and Sound, 7 October 2013

Sounding Out! Podcast #19: Solid Gold Summer, 27 July, 2013

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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