Salon Digital – Pedro Oliveira

Dubwise Machine Listening

Dub is a technique, method, and an approach to musical and sonic production that dwells on the porous boundary between decomposition and recomposition of a signal. Born out of the technological leftovers of a "post-colonial" Jamaica, Dub is far from being a "happy accident" in the studio (as the usual story goes). Rather, it is a bodily approach to sound that (re-)centres listening in and with time, defying the constraints of linear, colonial knowledge. To paraphrase Frantz Fanon, Dub introduces invention to existence. 

In this presentation I will discuss my work with what I call the "long histories of listening" in Germany and its intersections with artificial intelligence in the context of migration. By understanding dub as an artistic and academic method for approaching the materiality of sound as it becomes data, I hope to open up a field of possibilities for a non-Eurocentric and non-logocentric inquiry of machine listening. 

 

Pedro Oliveiro is a researcher, sound artist, and educator committed to an anticolonial study of listening and its intersections with violence at the European border. Currently I am Guest Faculty in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

 

Organized by R.Baecker/D.P.Paul/A.Sick

Digital Media – Salon Digital