Melle Jan Kromhout is an independent scholar working on the intersection of musicology, sound studies, and media studies. After completing his PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Music and Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.
"""Melle Kromhout is one of a new wave of scholars who are acutely attentive to the forces at work within the sound reproduction chain. In The Logic of Filtering, he first invites us to listen to so-called 'silence' anew, then unveils it as teeming with sonic life, historiography, and meaning."" -- Richard Beaudoin, Dartmouth College ""Could there be a philosophy of dithering? A sonic guide to living with transience? A political critique of the sine wave? Yes and yes and yes. In this elegant book, Kromhout explains the logic of filteringDLour cultural logic, in an era of technical mediation."" -- Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University"