subversive sound
subversive space

Royal Albert Hall
*royalty?
*reputation?
*radicalism?

Wendy Carlos used the RAH organ in Tron soundtrack (1982)

Pioneer in electronic music, a visible and hugely successful trans artist during 20th century

22 May 1972 John Cage and David Tudor – Concert of Electronic Music

some visitors were shocked at the radical nature of the music

The Times reviewer reported the next day that “the sound grew progressively louder and more violent with ferocious bursts of sound assaulting the senses. After about half an hour, reckoning my duty to readers being rather to preserve my hearing for future occasions than to see this concert through, I left.”

Display of photographs on RAH walls - who is part of the space, story?

Kelani Abass - ‘how an archive contributes to the practice of memory and historical recall’

Sufragettes? Meetings at RAH. Political activity, meeting... is there potential for the space to support radical action, alternative voices and histories and cultures??

Exhibition space
- common ground at Tate
- relaxing space to unwind, connect, reflect
- warm, homely, unlike royal and imposing nature of RAH? Interesting to have this in loading bay set up

DJ, sound clash, sound system, VJing, archival projections - opportunities for interactivity?

workshop aspect - opportunity for people to learn, engage w the music, history..

partner w charity?

síbín - sound system culture....
creating a SPACE for community, culture... outside of the official parameters... in diaspora communities... power - sound... síbín - a hidden space away from public authority... presence of police...
social gathering, a space to belong to and to creatively express yourself and keep culture and music alive... and connections to another space, home, memory, identity

the connections between space, culture and identity... - in music..

síbín collective doing interactive, creative and collaborative events... - pairing artists, using scents and teas in events, exploring these questions while partnering w projects, youth groups, charities... sound system trail in lewisham...

raven row
PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive

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