Below are selected articles and other writings organized by theme.

Instruments and Cultural Meaning

Why is the sight of pianos going to the dump so stirring? >> “Piano Death and Life,” Keyboard Perspectives 10 (2017): 1-18 (expanded in Sounding Human)

“Marvelous Illusions: Visual and Musical Beauty from the Renaissance through the 18^th Century,” in Art or Sound, ed. Germano Celant (Milan: Progetto Prada Arte, 2014), 30-32.

Historical Perspectives on Music Technology and Contemporary Culture

Why was algorithmic music recommendation so disturbing? >> “The Robot’s Mixtape,” Even Magazine Issue 3 (February 2016)

What does subscription history tell us about streaming?
→ “Streaming Swift, Lending Liszt: 250 Years of Music Access and Ownership” (2015)

“The Auto-tune Debate Before Auto-tune” (2011), “Voices of the Dead: From Edison to Tupac via Sonovox” (2012), “Spawn Songs: How AIs find their Voices” (2019) and more blog posts