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Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) is a research centre of the University of the Arts London dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice.

 

Our main aim is to extend the development of the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts and to encourage the broadening and deepening of the discursive context in which sound arts is practised.

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Research Feature: Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener

‘Sinister Resonance’ is the published outcome of four years of inter-related music practice, conference presentations, peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters, and scholarly research related to the act of listening by David Toop. Toop examines the possibility of ‘hearing’ otherwise silent media such as paintings and literary texts as if they are audio recordings. As a discursive text moving between scholarly analysis and listening journal, the book proposes a form of critical writing located between the act of making sound and the developing academic discourse of sound art.
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Member Profile: Cannach MacBride

PhD student Cannach MacBride is an artist. She works with performance, installation, writing, video, and event making, with and without institutions. Katherine's PhD 'Empathic Listening/Radical Listening: learning from feminist and decolonial contemporary arts practices through artistic research' intervenes in contemporary arts through practice-based research, addressing the uneven distribution of listening and being listened to following intersections of oppression and privilege.
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Abstract circular sketch with trees on the periphery. Lines leading towards a black centre resembling the middle of a vinyl record or speaker - drawn on old yellowed paper

News: Call for Contributions: In The Field 2

Dates: 5 and 6 July 2024 Venue: In person at London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and online Deadline for proposals:  6 February 2024 Notification of acceptance:  15 March 2024 In 2024 we will revisit In The Field, over a decade since the first significant gathering of artists and researchers in 2013, to ask how has and how might the practice of field recording responded in these times?
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