Safia Siad is a curator, scholar, and DJ with a practice centered in deep listening. As a founding member of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab, Siad operates at the intersections of visual and sound poetics of the African diaspora. Her deep listening sessions have taken place in Montreal, Florence, Toronto, and Banff, while her writing has appeared in C Magazine and multiple exhibition catalogues. She recently completed her SSHRC funded Master of Arts in Art History at Concordia University and is currently a curatorial fellow with Gallery TPW. For this lecture, Siad introduces the work of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab while weaving archival audio drawn from Canadian sound system histories mixed by lab founder and DJ Mark V. Campbell. In highlighting the lab’s multiple research projects that are rooted in intangible cultural knowledges, these sonic histories indebted to Jamaican sound system cultures are illuminated.