Volume 2, Issue 2 – Nayress Ben Gaga – Sound Systems and the Bending of Space: Funambulism from Fanon to Albert Einstein
I volunteered to be part of the planning team of the Sound System Outernational events held at Goldsmiths University of …
Author: Craig Hamilton
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Vincent Moystad & Oana Pârvan – An Introduction
Sound System Outernational (SSO) is a practice-research collective of MA and PhD students and staff based in Goldsmiths, in New …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Simon Jones – Editorial
“Playing music, for me right, it gets some heads together. Get a little tribal thing going on, you know. Get …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Tony Cordell – With Thanks to Harry Nichols: A (very personal) cockney history of reggae
In this very personal cockney history of reggae, I explore my first encounters with ska and reggae, growing up in …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Anne Barjolin-Smith – Surfing through music: Sharing the surf lifestyle on a reggae frequency
In this article, I look at the ways in which surfers from Cocoa Beach, while acknowledging the historical heritage of …
CREATE/REVIEW/PRINT – an IASPM special issue of Riffs
The Riffs team have today returned from an enjoyable 3 days in at the University of Huddersfield for the IASPM …
Riffs @ IASPM UK & Ireland Conference
The Riffs team are pleased to announce a special collaborative issue that will be created, live, during the 2018 IASPM …
Volume 2, Issue 1 – July 2018
In their own ways and for different purposes, writers, and musicians draw upon their creative, critical, and experimental qualities. Sometimes …
Volume 2, Issue 1 – Ian Davies – Brum Creatives
“While studying Media and Communication at Birmingham City University from 2005/2008, one of my mini goals after I graduated, was to be in …
Volume 2, Issue 1 – Simon Fox – Context is Everything
Simon Fox is an acoustic meddler, with work ranging from solo songwriting and composition, to more challenging sonic experiments and collaborative performances. Former leader of Birmingham post-rock …