How did music travel before algorithms decided what you heard next? And who gets to decide what we remember?
Resonance is a 90-minute guided listening session led by LusterClub in collaboration with Nicole Olenskaia, researcher in Public History. Together, they trace the hidden paths through which music moved across the world before the internet — through pirate radio antennas, cassette tapes passed hand to hand, rave hotlines, vinyl imports, and the oldest instruments ever found.
The session unfolds in four movements: from the audience’s own first musical memories, backwards through underground networks in the UK, Brazil, and South Africa – scenes built by communities excluded from mainstream cultural spaces – then further back to the birth of mass broadcasting and the question of whose sounds get archived and whose disappear, and finally to a time before any recording existed at all, when music was ritual, resistance, and survival.
This is not a lecture. There are no slides. The room listens together. Songs are played. Stories are shared. Questions remain open.
Resonance sits at the intersection of sound, collective memory, and the histories that travel through people rather than institutions – connecting directly to the framework of Common Ground.