Audio Paper offers a conceptual and practice-based approach for researchers across a wide range of disciplines to integrate auditory culture into their published work in the form of the audio paper.

The audio paper is an academic publication format presented as an audio production. Introducing this new format, the book invites scholars to engage in dissemination of research that integrates aesthetic perspectives with scholarly outcomes through technological mediation. This text builds on the authors' experience developing the audio paper and newly collected insights from researchers who have been involved in the production of audio papers over the past ten years.

By providing the reader with historical perspectives, ranging from early radio production to electroacoustic music and present day podcasts, the audio paper is contextualized as a technologically driven publication format, with a grounding in auditory culture. Through a structural analysis of published audio papers, the authors seek a more robust understanding of the methods for analysis as well as the dramaturgical means employed. For the future development of the audio paper, the book proposes a series of directions, underlining how the audio paper holds a potential to become a subversive intervention in academic publishing and a vehicle for for thinking and doing research through sound.

Sanne Krogh Groth is Associate Professor of Musicology at Lund University, Sweden, Managing editor of the journal Seismograf, author of Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music (2014) and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (2020).

Stefan Östersjö is Chaired Professor of Music Performance at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, co-editor of the journal Seismograf, author of Listening to the Other (2020) and first author of Shared Listenings (2023).