Sound Movements is a Reframe project that exploress forgotten, hidden and lost sound cultures across space and time. Our innovative forms of non-fiction storytelling remix our academic research to tell new stories about the movement of sound within and between communities, diasporas and generations. Sound Movements will run as a digital sound system, operatedby Dr John Doyle from the University of Sussex and Dr Dan Burdsey from the University of Brighton.
About
Following the traditions of sound system culture, in which the operators of sound systems organised and produced sonic innovations alongside collaborators, our work on Sound Movements reworks our academic research into different forms, that both explore remix culture while also paying homage to the technical innovations of sound systems. By remixing our academic research within digital spaces, our stories can evolve through sound, while also engaging with new audiences.
We utilise the multi-faceted concept of sound movements, that has different meanings and applications: it applies to the movement of sound within and between communities, diasporas and generations; but it also refers to forms of sonic politics, and social organisation and collaboration, that are literally sound: positive, trusted and well-founded. Sound Movements is influenced by Paul Gilroy’s work on transnational multiculture, Josh Kun on sound culture and Les Back and Michael Bull on sociological “deep listening”. In an overarching sense, we explore the possibilities, potentialities and positionalities that exist within sound and space.
Our work entails finding an area of sound culture that has been obscured or underexplored and developing a thread of academic inquiry, then we reimagine, recontextualise and remix our academic work for a range of different outputs. These outputs include forms of non-fiction storytelling and various sound products that track how sound moves, while shifting the forms of knowledge production. These movements of sound emphasise the iterative and situated characteristics of cultural production, as well as the fluid nature of sound. Our work evolves in a way that may challenge the conventional end points of academic output and knowledge dissemination. We set up processes of production, reflection and revision that allows new constructions of different stories and sounds. These reworks, remixes and versions allow us to work in association with guests, organisations and partners.
Sound Movements
SM1. Football and the sounds of the Black Atlantic (remix)
The first collection of Sound Movements is based on our current academic work. Our objective is to remix the journal article from the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Burdsey and Doyle (2021) Football and the sounds of the Black Atlantic, and current academic works in-progress, into a range of reworked multimedia products, that range from long-form non-fiction stories, audio versions, multimedia reworks and sonic maps.
A Note on Site Content
The audio, visual and textual content for this project is currently under production. An update on this content can be provided on monthly basis in 2023 to plan for the launch of the website.