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In this listening session Dave Haslam journeys from the art of Picasso to Keith Haring, from Weimar Germany to 90s rave, tracing the music that has soundtracked these decades and centuries. The human need to gather, listen to music, and feel a sense of life and community has b...
This listening session will draw inspiration from the German saint and polymath Hildegard of Bingen, considering how we can remix her lessons in the present. Bingen was a nun, poet, composer, visionary, prolific letter writer, herbalist, and scholar who wrote books on botany, ...
This session will be led by Steve Goodman (Kode9) and will explore themes of sound, science fiction, colonialism and utopia through a close listening to, and contextualisation of, his recent work Astro-Darien, a 26 minute sonic fiction which plays with the medium and method of...
In August 1952, the ground of western music subtly shifted. When David Tudor walked onto the stage of the Maverick Concert Hall in upstate New York, opened the score to his friend John Cage's newest composition 4'33'' and proceeded to play no notes at all for the duration of t...
This informal session will explore the sonic and social legacy of David Mancuso’s Loft, the influential invitation-only, audiophile community party that came into being on Valentine’s Day 1970, sometimes referred to as the Love Saves the Day party.
Hollows, spheres, caves and chambers are the resonant, amplifying spaces out of which sound emerges and intimate listening takes place. Resonance amplifies and enhances but it also acts as both metaphor and agent of empathy, intimacy and fellowship. David Toop's participatory ...
This session will bring forward the history of Palestinian music through deep listening and storytelling and will interlink radical historical and social movements of and through music. An archive of rare tapes and vinyl from Palestine and beyond, spanning field recordings of ...
This session will look into dub and its association with both communal reverie and spiritual transformation. Led by Edward George, it will dwell on the influences, dimensions, and spaces of dub by combining critical theory, social history, and live dub mixing. It will bring fo...
‘We left a riot and went to one’, eleven theses on p-funk
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