SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS
20. March 2021 / 12 pm
Symposium – ‘The Cold War Continuum: The Role of Sound Systems in the Vibrational Delusions of Sonic Warfare’
Symposium running order/schedule:
Time: Speaker/Title:
12pm – 12:15 Jessica Edwards
Introduction: ‘The Cold War Sonic Continuum’
Part I.
The Politics, Techniques and Frequencies of Sonic Warfare
12:15 – 13:15pm Dr Steve Goodman
Paper presentation:
‘Sonic Warfare: Havana Syndrome, Unsound
and the Ghosts of the Cold War’
Discussion w. Jessica Edwards (Chair)
Audience Q&A
13.30 – 14:30pm Nik Nowak ‘Schizo Sonics’
in conversation w.
Jessica Edwards (Chair)
Audience Q&A
Part II.
Unsound Methods: Eavesdropping and Sonic Inversions in the Escalating of Cold War Terror
14:35 – 15:35 ‘Lauschangriff: Feedback on surveillance practices
during the Cold War in Berlin’
Prof. Helmut Müller-Enbergs and Dr Bodo Mrozek
in conversation w. Martin Kowalski (Chair)
(In German w. English subtitles)
Audience Q& A
Part III.
“War in the East, war in the West”*: The Sonopolitical Diasporisation of Jamaican Sound Systems and their co-option during the Cold War
15:50 – 16:40 pm Sebastien Carayol
In conversation w. Jessica Edwards (Chair)
16:50 – 17:50 Prof. Louis Chude-Sokei
in conversation w. Jessica Edwards (Chair)
Audience Q&A
Part IV.
Interrupting Transmission – Transversal Border Crossings: From the Cold War to the Dance Floor
18:00 – 19:00 Dr Kerstin Meiβner and Sarah Farina
in conversation w. Jessica Edwards (Chair)
Audience Q&A
Part V. Convergences and Futurities
Roundtable: ‘On the eve of a second Cold War? New protagonists, old scores and fugitive possibilities for escaping the sonic impasse’
19:10 – 20:10 Roundtable discussion w. all panellists
Audience Q&A
20:10 – 20:20 Jessica Edwards – Closing remarks & thanks
END