Dhanveer Singh Brar is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His teaching and research addresses the relationship between sonic culture, critical theory and political radicalism in black and postcolonial diasporas from the late twentieth century to the present. His first monograph Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) is out with The 87 Press and Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century is forthcoming in April 2021 with Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press. Dhanveer is also a member of Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective and Lovers Discourse.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
In this online talk, scholar and vocalist Fumi Okiji discusses the aesthetic sociality of music.