Event overview
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We're bringing together sound system operators across the country to celebrate and exchange the culture and practices performed, preserved and changed across the generations
Through three reasoning sessions, we will learn how different practitioners started their sound systems; their approach to their practice and how various political and social situations have influenced their sound system approach.
The event will discuss key issues, targeting culture transformation, gate-keeping, appropriation and how sound systems practices are being preserved to pass down through generations. being passed down and preserved, or being gatekept, or appropriated? What are the responsibilities of youngers and elders? What does the future hold?
We will also explore how broader cultural landscapes and technological changes inform practitioners’ experiences. Indeed, is the traditional definition of a sound system still fitting, given technological and media platform changes in sound systems’ social and musical functions? The sessions are for sound system practitioners - artists, DJs, selectors, engineers, musicians, and activists - to reason with each other. Researchers and anyone else who participates directly or indirectly in sound system culture are welcome as an audience with some limited time for questions.
Sound System Outernational #8 is staged in association with Sonic Street Technologies (SST), an ongoing initiative of practitioners and researchers, in association with Goldsmiths, University of London and funded by the European Research Council, dedicated to recognizing, stimulating and supporting sound system culture worldwide.
Programme:
10.30-11.00: Check-in and light refreshments at Professor Stuart Hall Building
11.00-11.15: Welcome from SSO and SST
11.15-12.45: Younger and Veteran reasoning sessions run in parallel
12.45-13.45: Lunch (Caribbean buffet in the atrium, music provided by Nzinga Soundz)
13.45-15.15: Intergenerational reasoning session (Youngers and Veterans together)
15.15-15.30: Break
15.30-16.45: Film screening: In A Vanguard Style: A Documentary On Iration Steppas
16.45-17.00: Break
17.00-19.00: Dinner
19.00-22.00: Afterparty in the Atrium, powered by Lewisham-based sound system Unit 137
22.00-01.00: After-afterparty with DJ Tiny T and Lucky Cat at Isla Ray Cafe, 37 Deptford High Street SE8 4AD
Sonic Street Technologies
https://sonic-street-technologies.com/
Sound System Outernational
https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sound-system-outernational/
*Please note this event will be video recorded.
Sound System Outernational website
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2022 | 10:30am - 10:00pm |
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