Keywords: Digital Rhetorics, Sound, Methods, Community Literacy, Digital Humanities. Trent Wintermeier is a PhD student in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests broadly include sound, digital rhetorics and digital humanities methods, and community literacy. Currently, he’s an Assistant Director for the Digital Writing and Research Lab, and he’s a Presentations Coordinator for UT Austin’s University Writing Center. Besides his research on the hum phenomenon, which has been published by Sounding Out!, he’s working on projects concerning the sound of data center cooling equipment and building DIY radio receivers with found objects. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.