Sound System Tactics for Social Change

Soundsystems are a custom stack of speakers created for amplification with a strong grass roots history beginning in Jamaica in the 1960’s, having developed into a huge cultural phenomenon since. 

This curriculum will be designed and grounded on communal listening and understanding sound systems as part of a larger cultural/social and political/technological space of amplification and collectivity, and think through sound. 

We often forget, soundsystem culture comes from a space of politics, self representation, amplification and sovereignty. Soundsystems emerge as an often overlooked anti-colonial and solidarity practice and through this course we want to explore and surface what interdisciplinary tactics and learnings can come from this approach to self organising. This curriculum is for everyone interested in these ideas. 

Key questions underpinning this course:

1. What role are soundsystems playing right now in Narrm?

2. What are their possibilities for the future?

3. Why and how is this grassroots ethos so important at this socio-cultural-political moment?

Delivery mode: In person at 5 Munroe ST, Coburg, Wurundjeri Country