In this episode, I chat with Dr. Olivia Lucas (Louisiana State University) all about her musical upbringing as a vocalist, her time studying music theory at Harvard, and what she’s teaching at LSU. We also chat about how her early interest in metal music led to her current research on Lingua Ignota, who blends references to art music and classical vocal training with noise and extended techniques.


TW: domestic violence, religious trauma


Olivia’s SMT-Pod Episode

Olivia’s 2018 Meshuggah article

Olivia’s 2021 Meshuggah article

Olivia’s 2014 article on experience of extreme loudness at a Sunn O))) concert

2024 Teaching Difficult Topics book 

Olivia’s forthcoming chapter on Lingua Ignota and Eminem

“That He May Not Rise Again” by Lingua Ignota

Jonathan Pieslak’s article on Meshuggah

Assimilate by S. Alexander Reed

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