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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

Steve Goodman

Oct 17 – Nov 2, 2022
Fall Semester 2022: Ecologies of War
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Steve Goodman

The first seminar, Sonic Warfare, will outline the affective ecology of sonic warfare and its politics of frequency and amplitude, including the weaponization of sonic force, musical torture and mobilization, audio surveillance and the automation of eavesdropping within contemporary cybernetic control societies.

The second seminar, Audio Virology, takes a look at the idea of the viral propagation of sound within the memetic cultures of
contemporary capitalism and how sound resonates within a so-called ‘post-truth’ environment.

Schedule
  • Sonic Warfare

    Mon, Oct 31, 2022
    12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
  • Audio Virology

    Tue, Nov 1, 2022
    12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
  • Lecture: Havana Syndrome and the Weaponization of Unsound

    Wed, Nov 2, 2022
    2:30 pm
Steve Goodman

Steve Goodman, known as Kode9 (born 1973) is a Glasgow-born, London-based electronic music artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label. An MC, The Spaceape, is a frequent collaborator. Initially inspired by what he calls the “hardcore continuum”, he also draws on dub reggae, and was one of the founding members of the early dubstep scene (which he views as a continuation of developments originally stemming from UK Hardcore). He appeared on the Grimecompilation on Rephlex, and released two full-length albums: Memories of the Future and Black Sun (both featuring the Spaceape) on his own label Hyperdub. Kode9 has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Warwick and has published a book, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear.

Seminar Readings
  • Ch.2 in ‘What is Sonic Warfare’ in Goodman, S. Sonic Warfare (2010) MIT Press.

  • Bergman, A. (1990) ‘Auditory Scene Analysis: the Perceptual Organization of Sound’, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95(2).

  • Deleuze, G. (1995) ‘Postscript on Societies of Control’ in Negotiations, trans, M. Joughin. New York: Columbia University Press.

  • Parker, James E. K. (2019) Sonic Lawfare: on the jurisprudence of weaponised sound, Sound Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1.

  • Szendy, P. (2017) All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage, trans. R. Végsö, Fordham University Press.

  • Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern, (2020) ‘Machine Listening’ pp93-114 in Intermission, Unsound Festival.

  • S. Goodman, ‘Listening to Covid-19: audio virology in the age of pandemic’ (2020) pp277-286 in Intermission,
    Unsound Festival.

  • Dawkins, R. (1991) ‘Viruses of the Mind

  • Goodman, S. Sonic Warfare (2010) MIT Press, Ch.24-29.

  • Sampson, T. (2012) Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks, University of Minnesota.

Semester
Oct 17 – Nov 2, 2022
Fall Semester 2022: Ecologies of War
Learn More