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Notes
1. Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 2 [Citation1970], Side B: Dawn At New Hope, Pennsylvania.
2. Environments App, Google Play Store Description. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id = com.numerogroup.environments&hl = de&gl = US
3. Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 1 [Citation1969].
4. Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 1 [Citation1969], Liner notes.
5. Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 1 [Citation1969], Liner notes.
6. Environments App, Google Play Store Description. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.numerogroup.environments&hl=de&gl=US
7. Endel´s promotional “Manifesto” promises to bring forth “Human evolution through technology”. https://manifesto.endel.io/
8. Environments App, Google Play Store Description. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.numerogroup.environments&hl=de&gl=US
9. Spotify´s structural, aesthetic, and market parallels to the functional background music model of providers like Muzak have been highlighted by various authors. See: Pelley, L., 2017. The Problem with Muzak. Spotify’s bid to remodel an industry. The Baffler, 37 [online], Dezember 2017. Available at: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly [Accessed 2 May 2021]
See also: Eriksson, M., Fleischer, R., Johansson, A., Snickars, P., Vonderau, P., 2019. Spotify Teardown. Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music. Cambridge, London: MIT Press.
10. See: Sprenger, F., 2014. Zwischen Umwelt und milieu – Zur Begriffsgeschichte von environment in der Evolutionstheorie. Forum Interdisziplinäre Begriffsgeschichte [e-journal], 3 (2). pp.7–18. Available at: <https://www.zfl-berlin.org/tl_files/zfl/downloads/publikationen/forum_begriffsgeschichte/ZfL_FIB_3_2014_2_Sprenger.pdf>
11. Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 1 [Citation1969], Liner notes.
12. Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 1 [Citation1969], Liner notes.
13. Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 1 [Citation1969], Liner notes.
14. See Roquet, P., 2016. Ambient Media. Japanese Atmospheres Of Self. London, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Also: Lanza, J., 2007. Elevator Music. A Surreal History of Muzak®, Easy Listening and Other Moodsong®. 4th ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
15. “Thus the stage of intercourse where the male heart rate greatly increases can be consciously restrained, which extends and intensifies the pleasure of the act without artificial devices or anesthetics.” Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 5 [Citation1974], liner notes.
16. “Imagine how nice lovemaking would be in a meadow, without mosquitos and burrs to contend with. Imagine making love aboard a schooner on the high seas, without worrying about a hurricane or a reef.” Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 9 [Citation1979], liner notes.
17. “Have you ever been aboard a trim, lithe, ocean-going sailing vessel, with the sing of salty spray on your face?” Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 8 [Citation1974], liner notes.
18. See Degeling, J., Haffke, M., eds., 2021. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 24: Medien der Sorge, 13 (1), DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15762
19. See: Hagood, M., 2019. Hush. Media and Sonic Self-Control. Durham, London: Duke University Press. See also: Turner, F., 2006. From Counterculture to Cyberculture. Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press.
20. “The dawn sounds superbly preserved on this disc are sounds which are gradually vanishing from the North American countryside” Environments New Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 2 [Citation1970] liner notes.
21. Environments totally new Concepts in Stereo Sound, disc 3 [Citation1971], liner notes.
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Maren Haffke
Maren Haffke holds the position of a lecturer [“Akademische Rätin”] for Sound and Digital Sound in the department for Digital and Audiovisual Media at the University of Bayreuth. She is a media scholar and member of the editorial board of “Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft”. Her PhD Archäologie der Tastatur. Musikalische Medien nach Friedrich Kittler und Wolfgang Scherer was published in 2019. She currently works on the epistemology of materialist media theories, the media history of acoustic ecologies and media of care.