"If sound or music can be said to foretell or present darkness, or conversely, can be said to illuminate and dissolve darkness, then maybe it can be said of the music of Donald Byrd, that there's a shadowy and a luminescent sonance - a darkness that is kept in the mind of the music and dispelled, kept in mind and dispelled, dispelled and brought to mind in order to be dispelled." - Edward George

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Edward George is a writer and broadcaster. Founder of Black Audio Film Collective, George wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History (1996). George is part of the multimedia duo Flow Motion, and the electronic music group Hallucinator. He and hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio), Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows). George’s series The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) dives into reggae, dub, versions and versioning, drawing on critical theory, social history, and a deep and a wide cross-genre musical selection. Edward George lives and works in London. 

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Dhanveer Singh Brar is a writer, researcher and cultural theorist whose work combines approaches from Black Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory to think through the relationships between sound, music, aesthetics, politics and race. He has published in venues such as Social Text, Darkmatter, Propter Nos and in 2020 had a book - Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) - issued through The 87 Press. Dhanveer is currently a Lecturer in Black British History at the University of Leeds and has previously worked at Goldsmiths, University of London, UCL and University of Pennsylvania.