" The Audio Paper is both a compelling introduction to an emerging scholarly form and an important contribution to ongoing debates about how knowledge is produced, communicated and experienced. Groth and Östersjö combine thoughtful theoretical reflection with rich practitioner insights to demonstrate that sound is not simply a medium for illustrating research but can itself become a vehicle for rigorous scholarly argument. At a moment when academia is reconsidering the future of writing and publication, this book could not be more timely. While it does not shy away from the challenges that remain-including questions of citation, scholarly lineage and academic convention-it makes a persuasive case for the audio paper as a vibrant, critical and genuinely transformative mode of knowledge production. This is essential reading for anyone working in sound studies, artistic research, multimodal scholarship, or simply interested in where academic publishing may be heading next." -- Linda O''Keeffe, Professor of Art and Sound Artist, Stony Brook University, USA " Audio Paper is a wonderfully vibrant and deeply researched book by two of the leading figures who have shaped this emerging field from its inception. Building on a decade of pioneering practice, Sanne Krogh Groth and Stefan Östersjö offer the first sustained account of the audio paper as a scholarly genre and, more fundamentally, as a mode of sonic argumentation-one in which sound does not merely illustrate research but becomes a vehicle for thinking, reasoning, and producing knowledge in its own right. Richly informed by histories of radio, sound art, text-sound composition, electroacoustic music, and artistic research, the book traces the creative lineages of the audio paper while opening compelling new directions for its future.

Drawing on close analyses of dozens of audio papers alongside interviews with their makers, the authors explore the aesthetic, ethical, and methodological questions raised by sound-based scholarship-from field recording and sonic appropriation to questions of race, gender, voice, listening, agency, and power. Throughout, Groth and Östersjö demonstrate that sound is not simply a medium for communicating knowledge but also a way of generating, activating, and complicating it. Thoughtful, engaging, and full of inspiring examples, Audio Paper is an essential resource for researchers, artists, educators, and students alike, and a compelling invitation to rethink-and to sound-the future of academic knowledge." -- Gascia Ouzounian, Associate Professor of Music, University of Oxford, UK "This book is a vital contribution to a multi-disciplinary range of studies across sound, media and music. Sanne Krogh Groth and Stefan Östersjö challenge the assumption that the written word has some ordained precedence to communicate the outcome of a research investigation. They argue that the ''audio paper'' has the potential to address new ideas, and to express them in an innovative way, beyond and augmenting any possible written account. While the idea has been around for some time, this is the first thorough look at origins and options, different methods and approaches to creation and construction of this type of sonic document, drawing on existing examples examined in detail. It is both a manifesto and an open (non-directive) guidebook.

" -- Simon Emmerson, Professor in Music, Technology & Innovation, De Montfort University, UK " Audio Paper critically positions sonic research and methodologies as generative of unique forms of knowledge production today. By analyzing a range of audio papers, the authors highlight "sonic argumentation" as an embodied, experiential and scholarly approach that advances understandings of sonic materiality and meanings. Importantly, the publication works at clarifying the audio paper as a format and research tool, where sounding, writing and listening entwine into a dynamic form of authorship." -- Brandon LaBelle, Artistic Director, The Listening Biennial.