"In this dexterous book, Loughridge traces the seams in our understanding of humans and machines. Gathering examples from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sounding Human illustrates how musical technologies have provided new models for thinking about some of our deepest philosophical questions. Loughridge writes as masterfully about bells and harpsichords as she does about vocoders and neural nets, making clear that the boundary between people and devices has never been as clear as it seems."– "Nick Seaver, Tufts University"