WEDNESDAY 28TH MAY 2025 | 7PM | £5 TICKETS

Come join us for Listen Club #24 with Joseph Young!

The term ‘Hauntology’ is most often associated with the Ghost Box label, but there is much more to it than that. Hauntology as it relates to sound has its roots in place, as Mark Fisher noted the word hauntology contains “haunt”, which is also a synonym for a familiar place. In sonic hauntology, this sense of the familiar is often undermined and augmented by what Freud referred to as “the uncanny”, or the “unheimlich”.

In this edition of the Listen Club, Joseph will include recordings from his recent album "Sonic Hauntings in a Big House" released in December 2024 on Irish sound art label, Farpoint Recordings. As a starting point for this investigation, the curation will then ripple outwards as we listen to its circles of influence.

Joseph's work was created through exploring the extensive family archive held at Bray’s Killruddery House & Gardens in Ireland as part of a practice-based PhD, where he devised both a geolocated soundscape in Killruddery’s grounds and this accompanying record, which further proposes a spectral glimpse of a lost past. In keeping with this investigation of place through audio, we will listen to a selection of work by artists who are not usually considered part of the hauntology canon. These may include: Aeron Bergman, Mark Fisher & Justin Barton, The Caretaker, Janet Cardiff, Laurie Anderson, Drew Mulholland, Peter Cusack, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Cathy Lane, Pat Collins & Tadhg O'Sullivan, Chris Watson, Brian Harnetty, Ernest Hood, Dallas Simpson, Graeme Miller, Glenn Gould and Brian Eno.