Paul Goodwin is a curator, researcher and urbanist based in London. He is Professor of Contemporary Art & Urbanism and Director of TrAIN Research Centre (Transnational Art,Identity & Nation) at University of the Arts London.
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 dialogue, artist and musician Satch Hoyt and curator Paul Goodwin discuss Hoyt’s ‘Afro-Sonic Mapping’, a sonic and visual research project tracing the migration of rhythms and sounds across the African diaspora.