Dub is strange. A marginal music and a music of margins, first and most enduringly located on the B-side, dub is also a sonic process, a way of making new music from existing music, waiting to be excavated and discovered for the first time. At its heart, a concern with ideas of emptiness and silence, being and presence, space and repetition, these ideas intersecting with themes of Diaspora, and ‘race’, history and memory, longing and loss.
In a special session for Assembly, writer, researcher and musician Edward George presents a new live episode in his ongoing experimental radio series The Strangeness of Dub. Combining critical theory, social history, cross-genre musical selection and live dub mixing, we join Edward George for an exploration into dub’s dimensions, spaces and influences.
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