Nate Sloan quoted on NPR’s Morning Edition

Nate Sloan, a USC Thornton Musicology faculty member, made an appearance on NPR’s Morning Edition on Oct. 7 about Bop Spotter, a box-shaped device programmed to capture the soundscape of a San Francisco neighborhood.

According to NPR, the box contains an old phone that logs about 150 tracks each day, including Nipsey Hussle, Celine Dion, The Temptations and Peso Pluma. Sloan said that Bop Spotter can preserve music’s imprint on a particular landscape.

“This kind of captures those sounds and records them in a way that makes it this really wonderful archive of a specific intersection,” he said.

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