It’s been over a decade since MIT published The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Emily Thompson, who won a MacArthur grant a few years later. Paleofuture’s Matt Novak recently shared news of the Roaring Twenties soundscape project, which Thompson developed with Scott Mahoy. There’s something deliriously recursive about considering the recorded sound inherent in modernity, since the dawn of modernity in some sense can be tracked back to the dawn of recorded sound — the two are deeply intertwined.
https://gizmodo.com/what-new-york-city-sounded-like-in-the-1920s-1445950942
