Publications
Everybody SoundSystem
August 2022
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Keep On Moving*
Heather Galbraith -
Dance Parties—Feel the Bass
Emma Jean Gilkison -
The Empleasurement Effect (or, pleasure shared is potential expanded)
Laura Marsh -
Like here, like us
Grant Smithies -
You meet some of the best people on the dance floor !
Eve Armstrong, Gabby O’Connor, Josephine Cachemaille, Liang Cui, Claire Harris
Dance Parties—Feel the Bass
Emma Jean Gilkison
Eve Armstrong dancing, RadioActive.FM takeover Everybody SoundSystem, Saturday 27 August 2022. Image courtesy of Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.
A song sounds different on different systems and in different spaces, and presumably, inside different bodies. A body has senses, cavities, liquids and faculties. In these cavities, we vibrate. Music travels spiral time and the pathways of the mind; its brain circuitry is ancient. Sometimes, a spare drum machine rhythm or a synth line can resonate with us in a way that feels known, but isn’t: for a moment, we’re in the studio with Susan Rogers as Prince lays down the LinnDrum through a faulty mixing console for “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”, to paraphrase her words, ‘like a baby that can’t stop eating food’, or we’re in the booth with Rose Stone singing the hook for “It’s a Family Affair”, recorded when Sly & the Family Stone’s band members were drifting apart.