Every spoil is a style: voicing, absence and echo in reggae dub music

This talk, illustrated with several music tracks, explores aurality, errancy and voice through some of the voicing techniques, aesthetics and phonographic technologies of the reggae dancehall sound system. These are geared towards "building the vibes" or increasing the affective intensities for the crowd or audience. This is often achieved by means of error, interference and distortion that might be considered undesirable outside the sensibilities of the scene. But in the dancehall this provides a rich repertoire of phonographic techniques, namely auralities that involve adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. These make a major contribution to the aesthetic of the Jamaican street culture of dancehall.