J Sterne
Biographic Data
| ID | 9304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Sterne |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sterne |
| SIGNATURE | STERNE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6618-0898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Audible Past
Why did sound reproduction technologies emerge at the end of the 19th century, and not at another time, given that some practices, ideas, and concepts of sound reproduction existed even before the advent of machines? What made them possible, sought-after, and significant, and why did they acquire these particular forms and functions? As long as sound was conceptualized in terms of idealized entities such as “voice” or “music,” it remained a mere …
Tuning sound for infrastructures: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering
This paper traces the infrastructural politics of automated music mastering to reveal how contemporary iterations of artificial intelligence (AI) shape cultural production. The paper examines the emergence of LANDR, an online platform that offers automated music mastering, built on top of supervised machine learning branded as artificial intelligence. Increasingly, machine learning will become an integral part of signal processing for sounds and …
Scenes from an Imaginary Country: Test Images and the American Color Television Standard
American analog color television—so-called NTSC color—is likely the most pervasive image standard of the twentieth century, yet it is infamous for its technical shortcomings. Through a history and analysis of the National Television System Committee (NTSC) standard, this article argues that the political presuppositions of engineers shaped the representational capacities of television for nearly sixty years. In particular, the test images used to…
Space within Space: Artificial Reverb and the Detachable Echo
July 01 2015 Space within Space: Artificial Reverb and the Detachable Echo Jonathan Sterne Jonathan Sterne Jonathan Sterne is Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology at McGill University. He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke, 2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003), and numerous articles on media, technology, and culture. He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge…
O5-6.5 Lifecourse measures of body composition and the risk of kidney cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
The Pedagogy of the Job Market
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJonathan SterneJonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. He is author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003), and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture. His next book is tentatively entitled MP3: The Meaning of a Format
The mp3 as cultural artifact
The mp3 lies at the center of important debates around intellectual property and file-sharing, but it is also a cultural artifact in its own right. This article examines the design of the mp3 from both industrial and psychoacoustic perspectives to explain better why mp3s are so easy to exchange and the auditory dimensions of that process of exchange. As a container technology for recorded sound, the mp3 shows that the quality of 'portability' is …
Remote Sensing
The mp3 as cultural artifact
The mp3 lies at the center of important debates around intellectual property and file-sharing, but it is also a cultural artifact in its own right. This article examines the design of the mp3 from both industrial and psychoacoustic perspectives to explain better why mp3s are so easy to exchange and the auditory dimensions of that process of exchange. As a container technology for recorded sound, the mp3 shows that the quality of 'portability' is …
Space within Space: Artificial Reverb and the Detachable Echo
July 01 2015 Space within Space: Artificial Reverb and the Detachable Echo Jonathan Sterne Jonathan Sterne Jonathan Sterne is Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology at McGill University. He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke, 2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003), and numerous articles on media, technology, and culture. He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge…
Remote Sensing
The mp3 as cultural artifact
The mp3 lies at the center of important debates around intellectual property and file-sharing, but it is also a cultural artifact in its own right. This article examines the design of the mp3 from both industrial and psychoacoustic perspectives to explain better why mp3s are so easy to exchange and the auditory dimensions of that process of exchange. As a container technology for recorded sound, the mp3 shows that the quality of 'portability' is …
The Pedagogy of the Job Market
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJonathan SterneJonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. He is author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003), and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture. His next book is tentatively entitled MP3: The Meaning of a Format
O5-6.5 Lifecourse measures of body composition and the risk of kidney cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Scenes from an Imaginary Country: Test Images and the American Color Television Standard
American analog color television—so-called NTSC color—is likely the most pervasive image standard of the twentieth century, yet it is infamous for its technical shortcomings. Through a history and analysis of the National Television System Committee (NTSC) standard, this article argues that the political presuppositions of engineers shaped the representational capacities of television for nearly sixty years. In particular, the test images used to…
Space within Space: Artificial Reverb and the Detachable Echo
July 01 2015 Space within Space: Artificial Reverb and the Detachable Echo Jonathan Sterne Jonathan Sterne Jonathan Sterne is Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology at McGill University. He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke, 2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003), and numerous articles on media, technology, and culture. He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge…
Tuning sound for infrastructures: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering
This paper traces the infrastructural politics of automated music mastering to reveal how contemporary iterations of artificial intelligence (AI) shape cultural production. The paper examines the emergence of LANDR, an online platform that offers automated music mastering, built on top of supervised machine learning branded as artificial intelligence. Increasingly, machine learning will become an integral part of signal processing for sounds and …
The Audible Past
Why did sound reproduction technologies emerge at the end of the 19th century, and not at another time, given that some practices, ideas, and concepts of sound reproduction existed even before the advent of machines? What made them possible, sought-after, and significant, and why did they acquire these particular forms and functions? As long as sound was conceptualized in terms of idealized entities such as “voice” or “music,” it remained a mere …
Computer Science (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Active listening (1 works) · Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (1 works) · Artifact (error (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Automation (1 works)