Session Two: Gathering Place
Towards Listening Dub and Memory
Edward George
Date: Wednesday 25 January 2023 Time: 12pm – 1pm
In this online session, George will speak on listening, dub, and memory, and will reference both his The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) and Sound of Music (Threads Radio) shows.
Biography:
Edward George is a writer, broadcaster and photographer. A founder of Black Audio Film Collective, George wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History. He hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio), and Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows/NTS). George’s series The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) dives into reggae, dub, versions and versioning, drawing on critical theory, social history, and a deep and a wide cross-genre musical selection. The series will form the basis of a book. George's completed, yet-to-be published photo-poetry book, Dub Housing, forges a relation between photography, architecture and dub against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic. Recent work includes Genealogies of Rock Against Racism, a live broadcast of The Strangeness of Dub at London's Barbican Centre and The Strangeness of Jazz, a live presentation at London's Cafe Oto.
Image credit: Edward George: Used with permission.
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This programme is supported with funding from: Consortium for the Humanities and Arts South-East England (CHASE) - Cohort Development Fund (CDF)
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Our first online session will be with Carson Cole Arthur, Dr. Petero Kalulé and AM Kanngieser, 18th January, 12-1pm (GMT). Free to attend. Book now.
Our third online session will be with Nisha Ramayya and James Goodwin, 3rd February, 12-1pm (GMT). Free to attend. Booking TBA.
Biog:
Edward George is a writer, broadcaster and photographer. A founder of Black Audio Film Collective, George wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History. He hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio), and Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows/NTS). George’s series The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) dives into reggae, dub, versions and versioning, drawing on critical theory, social history, and a deep and a wide cross-genre musical selection. The series will form the basis of a book. George's completed, yet-to-be published photo-poetry book, Dub Housing, forges a relation between photography, architecture and dub against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic. Recent work includes Genealogies of Rock Against Racism, a live broadcast of The Strangeness of Dub at London's Barbican Centre. Forthcoming projects include The Strangeness of Jazz, a live presentation at London's Cafe Oto.
Session Details:
The event will taking in listening, dub, and memory, with reference to both George's Strangeness of Dub and Sound of Music shows.
AuralDiversities:
An interdisciplinary programme addressing the ‘auraldiverse turn’ in Arts and Humanities research and theory, questioning how and what we hear, what we listen to and why, as situated within our contemporary milieu and its associated crises.
These multimodal sessions trouble accepted norms in audio technology, sound culture and Western epistemologies and question the extent of human perception, our relation in and through the vibratory world, and whether hearing and listening is ever an individual act.
Entanglement Sessions:
By troubling assumptions around a distinct locus for hearing, and the notion of a presumed "singular" or discrete listener, we come to discern a colonisation of the senses, and prickle at arbitrary classifications that categorise and define into a certitute of disconnection. Working outside the assumption of hearing as "individualised" in the sense of separation, and instead vibrating towards the perceived individual’s hearing as necessarily co-constituted and sympoietic, we sit with the notion of hearing and listening as always with…