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Cybernetics, listening, and sound-studio phenomenotechnique in Abraham Moles’s Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958) (2021)
Journal Article
Bell, E. (2021). Cybernetics, listening, and sound-studio phenomenotechnique in Abraham Moles’s Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958). Resonance (Oakland, Calif.), 2(4), 523-558. https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2021.2.4.523

In his Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958), the sociologist of culture Abraham Moles (1920–1992) set out to demonstrate the applicability of information theory—a mathematical linchpin of cybernetics—to the arts more generally. Mo... Read More about Cybernetics, listening, and sound-studio phenomenotechnique in Abraham Moles’s Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958).

Two musical episodes at the piano keyboard in the study of human information-processing: Information as ‘cognitive good’ in interdisciplinary research (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bell, E. (2021). Two musical episodes at the piano keyboard in the study of human information-processing: Information as ‘cognitive good’ in interdisciplinary research.

In the early 1950s, the biologist Henry Quastler asked pianists to sight-read randomly generated musical scores as quickly and as accurately as possible. Quastler computed their performance as their “information transmission rate,” measured in bits-p... Read More about Two musical episodes at the piano keyboard in the study of human information-processing: Information as ‘cognitive good’ in interdisciplinary research.

Interleaving as Cultural Technique in the Audio CD and the End of Archaeophonography (2021)
Journal Article
Bell, E. (2021). Interleaving as Cultural Technique in the Audio CD and the End of Archaeophonography. Media theory, 5(1), 115-146

This article discusses a significant if imperceptible feature of how audio compact discs (CDs) inscribe sound: interleaving. It shows how CDs materialize interleaving—the microtemporal re-ordering of data—as a cultural technique of contemporary digit... Read More about Interleaving as Cultural Technique in the Audio CD and the End of Archaeophonography.