Resonance - Young Creation Triennial

Show & Culture

How did music travel before an algorithm decided what you listen to? And who decides what we remember? Resonance is a 90-minute guided listening session, led by LusterClub in collaboration with Nicole Olenskaia, a researcher in Public History. Together, they trace the hidden paths by which music circulated around the world before the internet – through pirate radio stations, cassettes passed from hand to hand, rave hotlines, vinyl imports, and the oldest instruments ever found. The session unfolds in four movements: from the audience's earliest musical memories, going back through underground networks in the UK, Brazil and South Africa – scenes built by communities excluded from dominant cultural spaces – then further back, to the beginnings of mass broadcasting and the question of which sounds are archived and which disappear, and finally to a time before any recording, when music was ritual, resistance and survival. This is not a lecture. There are no slides. The room listens together. Pieces are played. Stories are shared. Questions remain open. Resonance lies at the intersection of sound, collective memory, and stories that travel through people rather than institutions – directly related to the Common Ground framework.