TY - JOUR

T1 - Instrumenting(s): Accounting a Series of Repetitive Beats

AU - Finchett-Maddock, Lucy

AU - Hignell-Tull, Daniel

AU - Hultkvist, Anders

PY - 2025/2/7

Y1 - 2025/2/7

N2 - This Visual Law article accounts an event “A Royal Dis-Sent –Re-Writing and Re-Imagining a Series of Repetitive Beats CJA1994” held at House of Annetta, on London’s Brick Lane, onSunday 3 November 2024. On that day it was 30 years sincethe notorious Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (CJA) 1994was given royal assent, illegalizing raves, banning music that“includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterized by theemission of a succession of repetitive beats” (section 63(1)(B)).Discussions as to the nature of sound and law are unravelled,considering prohibition, nomadism, repetition and propertyconcerning the connections found between law, music andaesthetics that the CJA 1994 and the workshop highlighted.The summary relays the work of event organizers Dr DanielHignell-Tully and Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock under the guise oftransdisciplinary project “Instrumenting(s)”, investigating therelations between sound, property and law, and how we maybest understand the history of land within legalities and theirresistances via a combination of legal, scientific and artisticresearch through the development of a “geosocial instrument”.

AB - This Visual Law article accounts an event “A Royal Dis-Sent –Re-Writing and Re-Imagining a Series of Repetitive Beats CJA1994” held at House of Annetta, on London’s Brick Lane, onSunday 3 November 2024. On that day it was 30 years sincethe notorious Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (CJA) 1994was given royal assent, illegalizing raves, banning music that“includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterized by theemission of a succession of repetitive beats” (section 63(1)(B)).Discussions as to the nature of sound and law are unravelled,considering prohibition, nomadism, repetition and propertyconcerning the connections found between law, music andaesthetics that the CJA 1994 and the workshop highlighted.The summary relays the work of event organizers Dr DanielHignell-Tully and Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock under the guise oftransdisciplinary project “Instrumenting(s)”, investigating therelations between sound, property and law, and how we maybest understand the history of land within legalities and theirresistances via a combination of legal, scientific and artisticresearch through the development of a “geosocial instrument”.

M3 - Article

VL - 6

SP - 472

EP - 488

JO - Amicus Curiae

JF - Amicus Curiae

IS - 2

ER -