7 September: AUDINT: GHOSTCODE - Album Launch + An Exploration of Sci-Fi Soundtracks from 1970-2020
A durational audio-visual event featuring sci-fi film soundtracks and film work curated by: Lois MacDonald (PINS/Grave Goods), Michael England (Skam), Matteo Polato (Mamuthones), Joe Beedles (WEȽ∝KER), Paul Jones (Cloudwater), and Thomas Couziner (AUDINT/Kouz Prod).
Introduction to GHOSTCODE by Toby Heys and Thomas Couziner (AUDINT) with special thanks to Cloudwater Brewery.
Previous iterations
9 May – The Man of Any Past: New ‘World’ Music with Paul Rekret
6 June – Like Deepening Thunder into Our Hearts: South African Jazz Exiles in Britain with Francis Gooding and Akshi Singh
Francis Gooding led this session on the music, voices and images of South African jazz artists exiled in Britain during the apartheid era.
11 July – Dub as Method: A Conversation with Edward George
Edward George led a conversation on dub, which he described as “a sonic process, a way of making new music from existing music”; a music “waiting to be excavated and discovered for the first time” that “has at its heart a concern with ideas of emptiness and silence, being and presence, space and repetition.” These ideas intersect with themes, especially in reggae, of Diaspora, ‘race’ history and memory, longing, and loss.
The Artists
Akshi Singh is a writer and psychoanalyst based in Glasgow. Her memoir of reading Marion Milner, In Defence of Leisure, is due next year. She wrote about psychoanalysis and colonial history for her PhD and teaches at Glasgow University.
Edward George is a writer and broadcaster. Founder of Black Audio Film Collective, George wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History (1996). George is part of the multimedia duo Flow Motion, and the electronic music group Hallucinator. He and hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio), Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows). 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. Edward George lives and works in London.
Francis Gooding is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and a columnist at The Wire.
Paul Rekret is the author of Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis (Goldsmiths/MIT Press 2024), Down With Childhood: Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence (2017); Derrida and Foucault: Philosophy, Politics, Polemics (2018) and editor of George Caffentzis’s Clipped Coins, Abused Words & Civil Government (2021). He is a member of Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective and teaches in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster.