Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University – Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures; Sound, Media, Technology; Poetry, Songwriting, Avant-gardes | Posts in English, Portuguese & Spanishhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3muhzd6bb722hHere's my new article, “The Sound of Political Critique in Augusto de Campos’s Popcretos,” just published in the journal Humanities (Vol. 15, No. 8, 2026), as part of the special issue on Literature and Sound. It's open access, feel free to download the PDF and check it out: https://doi.org/10.3390/h1508011201 Sep 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhzd6bb722hhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3mtty7lef7s2bIci sont les Dragons - À partir du 30 septembre 2026 https://www.theatre-du-soleil.fr/fr/notre-theatre/les-spectacles/ici-sont-les-dragons-2024-247024 Aug 2026 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtty7lef7s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3mtejm7qmyk2xLina https://youtu.be/fU6n3QzqOdQ?si=Xghh5ByaiSkwjb7e18 Aug 2026 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtejm7qmyk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3msvh5quqos2uNew translations, both in English and German, of the extraordinary "Grande Sertão: Veredas" by Guimarães Rosa are coming next Jan 2027. Here the German one by Berthold Zilly (who also translated Euclides da Cunha's "Os Sertões"). In pre-order: https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/joao-guimaraes-rosa-grosser-sertao-querungen-978310397615112 Aug 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvh5quqos2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3m64ouybc222tHow to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/20/us/typewriter-repair-seattle-bremerton.html?rsrc=flt&smid=bs-share21 Nov 2025 06:49 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m64ouybc222thttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3m47ryjli422dLucrecia Dalt (@lucreciadalt.bsky.social) is coming to Baltimore to release her new album, A Danger to Ourselves (2025). At Hopkins, Dalt will join me for a conversation & listening session of tracks directly from her vinyl records. Oct. 29, 2025, 12:00 PM, at the Levering Arellano Theater.28 Oct 2025 01:32 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m47ryjli422dhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3m2c4fgphq22nToday at noon in Gilman 479, Johns Hopkins hosts an open class by art historian Tatiana Flores (UVA) on Mexican avant-gardes, examining the intersections of art and literature in Maples Arce’s landmark manifesto "Actual No. 1" (1921)—open to all.03 Oct 2025 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2c4fgphq22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3lwyckqpxik2wCeci n'est pas une livre [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2025 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwyckqpxik2whttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3ltxososznc2pThe only conceivable GG biopic ever: https://youtu.be/aZU4qJsujjo?si=qAQQjS_P8mIlaFxy15 Jul 2025 00:52 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltxososznc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3ltjtrjjhdk2lLike an artist’s book, artists’ records are fascinating objects. In my latest article, I examine the long trajectory of the renowned Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles with vinyl records. The article is available as open access and can be downloaded for free. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2025.249895709 Jul 2025 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltjtrjjhdk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3lt2sx7l3ls2yMy new article, "Disculpture: Cildo Meireles’s Vinyl Records as Sculptural Objects," has just been published in the latest issue of the JLACS (Vol. 34, No. 2)—and the PDF is available as open access for free download. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2025.249895703 Jul 2025 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt2sx7l3ls2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3loy7n7o5322wElis Regina and Tom Jobim: two giants in one record. The 16mm footage is a lasting gift. Pure joy, music as high art. Now free to watch. Don’t miss it. https://youtu.be/469gcz-oyBA?si=y4Jdti_TeMGgPOoe12 May 2025 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3loy7n7o5322whttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3loqdumwrl22bOpportunity for MA and PhD students in the US—deadline on May 16. https://islaa.org/updates/research-fellowship-program/09 May 2025 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqdumwrl22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3lngpniqdg22dTrue. I've been off Spotify for three months now, and my music-listening habits are doing great—better now, actually. Opting out looked impossible at first, but let me tell you this: it is not only possible, it is liberating and transformative. Just do it! https://open.substack.com/pub/littledoor/p/ghosting-spotify-a-how-to-guide?r=tqok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false22 Apr 2025 22:21 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lngpniqdg22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3ln6eyv6zi22sMovie theaters are struggling because people no longer assemble in front of the big screen. I went to Baltimore's coolest place for “One to One: John & Yoko” just to find an empty room. The film is magnificent, inspiring, galvanizing; but people were “absolutely elsewhere.” https://youtu.be/Oiw_WJeiv4Q?si=k_6q9qr2Ckau7oX719 Apr 2025 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln6eyv6zi22shttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3lmb7ucmni22oBillie Holiday 110 today and we're making our annual April 7 late at night pilgrimage to Billie’s Alley here in Baltimore—which is literally 3 blocks from home. Gonna drop a few of her tunes out there with a portable speaker. Lady Day's day! https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/billie-holiday-all-or-nothing-at-all-verve-acoustic-sounds-vinyl/08 Apr 2025 00:30 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmb7ucmni22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3lloows5kmk2iMy daily memento/mantra—to be recited every morning for the foreseeable future: "The world changes according to the place we place our attention. This process is additive and energetic." John Cage31 Mar 2025 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lloows5kmk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3llcpsgzjes2nBack from spring break here at the office—spent the afternoon with my old copy of Sterne’s groundbreaking masterpiece, the book a friend gave me when I was still a grad student at Duke and that changed my life.26 Mar 2025 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3llcpsgzjes2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3lkz4r673ok2bProfoundly sad with such untimely loss. Sterne has changed the way we listen to the world. Audible past, present, and future! Rest in power! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Mar 2025 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkz4r673ok2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3lk4m72xflc2iBaltimore's High Zero experimental music festival will throw a fundraising event this Wednesday at Fadensonnen! See you there! https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-night-at-fadensonnen-2/11 Mar 2025 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4m72xflc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3ljil7zteyk2pAdrien Brody took home the award for Best AI-Assisted Overacting and didn’t even bother to thank the software Respeecher that made him “sound authentic” in Hungarian. No need to learn anything when you can just have the editor, a native speaker, feed his own voice into an AI and patch over your act.03 Mar 2025 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljil7zteyk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/marcelonoah.bsky.social/post/3ljfsr6fmoc27Bernie Krause is such a wonderful person. I am glad his lifelong pursuit of listening to nature keeps drawing the attention of other creators. He needs to be heard. An excellent short film about him is just out. https://youtu.be/w-0IzU1EDdk?si=7qk6auOqb4iOk17K02 Mar 2025 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:qtaatga3m2d5nvirity6wvdd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfsr6fmoc27