{"id":1791,"date":"2021-01-25T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T11:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T11:57:57","slug":"sound-knowledge-and-space-the-reggae-sound-system-as-an-apparatus-for-the-production-of-affective-intensities-crowds-affects-cities-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/sound-knowledge-and-space-the-reggae-sound-system-as-an-apparatus-for-the-production-of-affective-intensities-crowds-affects-cities-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound, Knowledge and Space: the reggae sound system as an apparatus for the production of affective intensities (Crowds, Affects, Cities Seminar Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Julian Henriques, Wednesday 27th January 1pm, Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended background viewing:\u00a0<\/strong><br class=\"\" \/>Sound System Outernational #5 Naples, Italy (Astarbene, 2020,12 min)<br class=\"\" \/><a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/396139747\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/396139747\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/396139747<\/a><br class=\"\" \/>\u00a0<br class=\"\" \/>This talk proposes that sound waves, auditory mechanics and the propagation of sounding provide a useful model for understanding the production and transmission of affect. Feelings are\u00a0literally vibratory. It takes the Jamaican dancehall sound system session as an\u00a0apparatus for the production affective intensities. Here the audio engineers developed the highly skilled knowledge and\u00a0practices, that I name as\u00a0phonomorphic\u00a0(sound-shaping) techniques, with which they use frequencies and amplitudes to \u201cengineer\u201d the vibes of the crowd.\u00a0While from ancient times it has been appreciated\u00a0that music communicates feelings and is freighted with emotions and associations, I argue that the\u00a0sounding\u00a0of the music provides an excellent analogue for the feeling of affect; both are non-representational. With the shared social experience of the space of the dancehall session volume (dB) or pressure equates with affective intensity, pitch with charge or excitement, auditory\u00a0diffusion with affective transmission and rhythm or refrain with entrainment and attunement. \u201cFeeling moved\u201d and moving (dance) become different sides of the same coin. This dynamic situated,\u00a0embodies and shared vibratory approach can be contrasted with more familiar visual relationships of reflection and gaze structured by the single point of view.<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the 2020-2021 seminar series Crowds Affects, Cities, jointly convened by the Centre for the History of the Emotions and the QMUL City Centre. <strong>To register your interest, please contact one of the convenors: Tiffany Watt Smith (t.k.watt-smith@qmul.ac.uk), Regan Koch (r.koch@gmail.com), and Pen Woods (p.woods@qmul.ac.uk).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sound, Knowledge and Space: the reggae sound system as an apparatus for the production affective intensities.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Julian Henriques, Wednesday 27th January 1pm, Zoom<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the 2020-2021 seminar series Crowds Affects, Cities, jointly convened by the Centre for the History of the Emotions and the QMUL City Centre. To register your interest, please contact one of the convenors: Tiffany Watt Smith (t.k.watt-smith@qmul.ac.uk), Regan Koch (r.koch@gmail.com), and Pen Woods (p.woods@qmul.ac.uk).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}