This episode features a recording of James Parker’s talk The Planetisation of Machine Listening, delivered after Machine Listening’s multichannel performance of Environments 12 at the inaugural Deep Assignments in June 2025. The talk delves into the work’s key research themes and is followed by a Q&A with James Parker and Joel Stern, hosted by Angela McArthur.
The talk and lively discussion covered a lot of ground, this recording offers a welcome chance to revisit some of the ideas explored. It was captured with a Reynolds A-Type 8 ambisonic microphone and rendered binaurally here — best experienced with headphones.
The recording captures the sound of Studio Two at Apiary Studios, including the quietly shifting bodies of attentive listeners, spontaneous vocalisations of surprise and enquiry, and the sounds of passersby on a warm June evening just off Hackney Road.
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