In the Field 2 | Biographies

In the Field 2 | Biographies

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Chairs

Professor of Sound and Landscape at University of the Arts London, Angus Carlyle studied law, completed a masters in political theory and a PhD on the conditions of vocalised political exchange.
Often inspired by situations of environmental stress, his practice shifts between a documentary impulse and a more poetic register, deploying experimental writing and compositions based on field recording and often involving collaborations. HYPNOSS (2016- 2018) was an investigation of hospital noise that led to experiments in acoustic amelioration and a co-authored paper in the British Medical Journal. Air Pressure (2011 – 2013) was a co-produced with anthropologist Rupert Cox, as is Zawawa (2011 – ongoing), each project addressing lives under civilian and military flight paths. Arctic Auditories (2022 – 25) is collaboration with Katrin Losleben, Za Barron, Britta Sweers and Paula Ryggvik Mikalsen.
With Cathy Lane, he co-founded CRiSAP and co-wrote the oral histories In the Field (2013) and Sound arts now (2021).
Cathy Lane is an artist, composer and academic. She works primarily in sound, combining oral history, archival recordings, spoken word and environmental recordings to investigate histories, environments, our collective and individual memories and the forces that shape them. She is inspired by places or themes which are rooted in everyday experience and particularly interested in ‘hidden histories’ and historical amnesia and how this can be investigated from a feminist perspective through the medium of composed sound.
Books include: Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice (RGAP, 2008) and, with Angus Carlyle, In the Field (Uniformbooks, 2013), On Listening (2013) and Sound Arts Now (2021).
Her CD The Hebrides Suite, explores aspects of life, past and present, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, through the medium of composed sound.
Cathy Lane is Professor of Sound Arts at University of the Arts London and directs Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP).
Cannach MacBride is a white, trans, Scottish artist and editor. They make things with writing, sound, performance, installation, and video.
Their PhD research at Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice, focuses on both more-than-sonic listening awareness and the ontological understandings of sound that different ways of thinking about listening emerge from to attend to the relations and regimes of power embedded within different listening practices. With Taraneh Fazeli, they are co-editing a book called Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: For Access-Centered Practices, which shares practices for co-creating accessible worlds through art, culture, and community organizing.
Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a social practice. She creates works collaboratively and in community settings, during residencies and through workshops. Hannah has a particular interest in transmission arts - as a member of feminist radio art group Shortwave Collective, she experiments with DIY radios and produces zines to make these technologies accessible. Alongside her artistic practice, Hannah teaches sound arts, contextual studies, community engagement, and collaborative practice at Central Saint Martins and London College of Communication, where she is also an AHRC-funded PhD student with CRiSAP, working on a project asking 'what can we learn about listening from socially-engaged artists?'. Her research-in-progress is shared via the monthly podcast series 'Ways of Listening', available via MIAAW.net. Website | Shortwave Collective
Hector MacInnes | I am a sound artist and researcher with a socially engaged practice. I create with spoken word, sonic fiction, installation, text, tech, music, radio and speculative design, often in collaboration with other artists and a diverse range of communities. Having been born and grown up on the Isle of Skye, my projects are deeply rooted in an an ongoing interrogation of belonging, identity, legitimacy and lived experience of the more-than-urban, and I now work with these as central themes across the Highlands, Scotland and the wider UK.

I am also working towards a PhD at CRiSAP (Creative Research Into Sound Arts Practice) at UAL, where I am undertaking practice-based research around the concept of the field, anthropocene rurality, and the New Weird.
Kate Carr’s practice explores the encounters, textures and technologies entangled with field recording using movement, objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which centre the interactions and collectivity which generate soundscapes. She works across composition, performance and installation. Everything from vibrations caused by cars and footfalls, to overheard murmurs, public speeches, music in public space, and the roar of distant sporting events has found its way into her compositions, and live performances. Inspired by the layers, minglings and silences in our collective soundscapes, Carr is interested in composing works probe the soundscape for clues as to how we negotiate living together. She is particularly focused on hybrid soundscapes: where forest meets town, nuclear power plant meets wetland, booming car stereo meets residential street. Website | Instagram
Louise Gray completed her PhD at CRiSAP in 2018, having spent many years writing about experimental music and sound art for many publications, most regularly The Wire. Her interest in the sonic knowledge created through dialogue came out of doctoral research which used in-depth interviews with five post-1945 female composers, each one working in a different transmission of music and sound art, as a way of understanding the methods and networks necessary to create work. Her recent writing has focused on ways of listening in the works of Éliane Radigue, Annea Lockwood and Pauline Oliveros. She also teaches on the BA and MA Sound Arts courses at LCC, University of the Arts London. Recent publications include: Beyond the Audible: Éliane Radigue’s OCCAM works and Inter/Listening in Contemporary Music Review: ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/21800/; and “Women composers, experimentalism and technology, 1945-1980” in The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers (Cambridge University Press).

Mark Peter Wright is a Reader in Critical Sound Practice and member of CRiSAP, LCC, UAL. His recent book Listening After Nature is published by Bloomsbury, 2022/23. As an artist-researcher, he works between the field and lab, site and gallery, and is committed to amplifying forms of power and poetics within the creative use of sound and documentary media. Website

Presenters

Victoria Karlsson is a sound artist and researcher. She is interested in our relationship to sounds and listening and how they intersect with and relate to broader cultural contexts and beliefs. In 2022 she completed her PhD at CRiSAP, University of the Arts, London. In her research project, she defined and explored “inner sounds”, sounds we experience as part of our inner world of thoughts and emotions. She works with sound and listening across a variety of mediums, such as performance, composition, text-based scores and installation. Website | Instagram

Thursday 4 July

Panel 1. Placing the Field

Anton Spice, Gabriele de Seta, Nele Möller, Sally Ann McIntyre

Chair: Mark Peter Wright

Anton Spice is a writer and artist-researcher interested in how sound mediates relationships between people and their environments. His writing is published in The Guardian, Frieze, Sonic Acts and Electronic Sound. He currently runs a newsletter about listening and climate change. His sound works have been featured on BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM and in exhibitions around the UK. In 2022, he produced Echo Location, a compilation featuring seven artists working with recordings from the Hebrides. He holds an MSc in environmental politics from UCL, focussing on ocean noise pollution. In a parallel life, he is a music journalist, editor and DJ.  Website |  Instagram

Gabriele de Seta is, technically, a sociologist. He is a Researcher at the University of Bergen, where he leads the ALGOFOLK project (“Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation”) funded by a Trond Mohn Foundation Starting Grant (2024-2028). Gabriele holds a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica and at the University of Bergen, where he was part of the ERC-funded project “Machine Vision in Everyday Life”. His research work, grounded on qualitative and ethnographic methods, focuses on digital media practices, sociotechnical infrastructures and vernacular creativity in the Chinese-speaking world. He is also interested in experimental, creative and collaborative approaches to knowledge-production. Website

Nele Möller is a Brussels-based artist working primarily in sound, performance and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on forest conversations, historical nature inscriptions, critical field recording and listening practices. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Her research project ‘The Forest Echoes Back‘ is embedded in the artistic research cluster ‘deep histories fragile memories‘ and oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by climate change and an adherent bark beetle infestation. Since 2023, she has been producing ‘Listening Fields’ at the free radio station Radio Panik in Brussels. Besides that, she performs under the pseudonym Kimberly Clark and has released recordings on Futura Resistenza and RDS Rec. Website | Instagram

Sally Ann McIntyre is a Hobart-born poet, writer/researcher, sound and radio artist who recently relocated to Melbourne/Naarm from Dunedin/Otakou, Aotearoa. Since 2008 she has programmed the Mini FM station radio cegeste 104.5FM as a small mobile platform for various site-responsive radio art events, reimagining the radio as a form of process-based fieldwork in particular landscapes and environmental/social contexts. Working with transmission, field recording and archival sound technologies, her projects investigate the history of soundscapes as sites of ecological absence and degradation, and charted and imagined sites of memory, in the creation of alternate sound archives. Exhibitions include Nature Reserves (GV Art, London, 2013), Ghost Biologies (Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2016), Das Grosse Rauschen: the Metamorphosis of Radio, (Halle, Germany, 2016), the Audiograft Festival (Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2018). Her sound work has been published on the labels Consumer Waste, winds measure, Idealstate, Impulsive Habitat, Sonic Arts Research Unit (SARU), and as a sonic component to an exhibition about the paranormal in contemporary art practice: Medium Paranormal Field Recordings and Compositions, 1901-2017 by The Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), Atlanta, U.S. Website | Instagram

Panel 2A. Capturing and Releasing Lifeworlds

Emiddio Vasquez, Jonathan Prior & Sandra Jasper, Leena Lee & Guillermo Guevara, Rachel Shearer

Chair: Angus Carlyle

Emiddio Vasquez is Cypriot-Dominican artist and musician. His work is a culmination of installations, performances, curated sound events, field recordings, custom code for instruments, theoretical essays, DJ sets and record releases. His practice deals with the material transformations that blur the encoding-decoding processes across media and serves as a strategy for engaging with the larger infrastructures at stake but without ever losing sight or interest in the human condition. By reweaving personal memories, sedimented histories and media technologies, his work looks at how, and what, subjects emerge through the contemporary forms of mediated sensing. He is currently completing a PhD in the transdisciplinary program Media Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, in which he interrogates the philosophical and aesthetic implications of treating digitality and computation under a materialist framework.
Dr Jonathan Prior is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University. His research spans cultural geography, environmental philosophy, sound studies, and landscape research. He has published on the use of sonic methods in human geography; the relationship between landscape design and sonic perception; environmental aesthetics; and ecological restoration and rewilding strategies. Website | X

Dr Sandra Jasper is Assistant Professor for Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Deputy Director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). Her research interests are urban nature, sound studies, and feminist theory. Website

Leena Lee (Lena Ortega) (MX), artist, researcher, and radio producer who, delves into nature-culture environmental relationships, body perception, and affective topographies through tonal research of field recordings, light, and voice. Francisca Zalaquett (CL), sound anthropologist and Senior Researcher at UNAM's Center for Maya Studies specializes in public representations in open Maya spaces and the acoustics of Mayan instruments. Fernando González García (MX), ornithologist and Senior Academic Technician at the Institute of Ecology focuses on bird ecology and conservation, acoustic communication in birds and anuran amphibians in natural and anthropized environments, and soundscape ecology. Guillermo Guevara (MX), musician and sound researcher, specializes in timbral transfer tools, intonation systems from field recordings, and binaural/multichannel audio spatialization.

Based in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Rachel Shearer is an artist and composer who affiliates to the kinship groups of Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga ā Māhaki and Pākehā (NZ European). Her work explores culturally informed practices of close listening to the earth and its environment, drawing on a divergent set of practices. Shearer has been performing and releasing recordings of her experimental music for multiple decades alongside site specific installations; collaborator as a music maker and sound designer for film, dance, performance; practice-led research/writing on the materiality and affective qualities of sound through western and Māori philosophies and technological practices. Academic Profile | Website

Panel 2B. Concrete and Abstract: Pressing Record and Activating Collections

Daryl Jamieson, Dayang Magdalena Nirvana Yraola, Gustavo Branco Germano and Fernando Iazzetta, Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson and Björt Sigfinnsdóttir

Chair: Louise Marshall

Daryl Jamieson (b.1980, Halifax NS) is based in Zushi and Fukuoka, Japan. After Wilfrid Laurier University, he studied at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the University of York. He then spent a post-doctoral year in Tokyo studying with Jo Kondo. He is currently assistant professor of composition at Kyushu University of Music and is published by Da Vinci Edition and the Canadian Music Centre.
In 2018, he received the Toshi Ichiyanagi Contemporary Prize for the third of his Vanitas trilogy of music theatre pieces. Jamieson’s music, written for both western classical and Japanese traditional instruments, is influenced by his study of Nō theatre and Japanese philosophy. It has been performed across Europe, Japan, and North America by many soloists and ensembles.
In addition to composing, he also co-founded the intercultural music theatre company ‘atelier jaku’, and is active as a researcher, writing on Japanese aesthetics, and contemporary music and spirituality.
Dayang Magdalena Nirvana T. Yraola, PhD, pioneers academic research and formal education for sound art practice in the Philippines. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Theory, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines, where she was also former Curator of the University Fine Arts Gallery, Chair of the Committee on Linkages, Scholarships and Grants and Director of University of the Philippines Art Prize. She was also former Archivist and Collections Manager of the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology.
Yraola's curatorial practice is focused on producing projects (exhibit, performance, residency, archive) and research on art ecology and art as expanded practice. Among the projects she initiated were: residency platform, Project Glocal (2011-2015); performance platform: Composite Noises (2015-2024), and research and archiving platform: Sonic Manila Research (2020-2023). Her latest curatorial works are Listening Biennial 2nd Edition (2023) and For the Record (2024). Website
Gustavo Branco Germano is a PhD candidate at the School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a Visiting Scholar at SUNY - Stony Brook (2023-2024). His dissertation, "Field Recording: between documentation and sound-in-itself," will focus on the relationships between documentary and musical concerns in the works of four contemporary Brazilian field recordists. His writings have been published in journals such as Organised Sound and Revista Vórtex. Since 2015, he has been a member of NuSom – Research Center on Sonology at the University of São Paulo. Website
Fernando Iazzetta is a Music and Technology professor at the University of São Paulo and the director of NuSom - Núcleo de Pesquisas em Sonologia (Research Center in Sonology). He leads Berro, a record label focused on experimental practices and sound art repertoire. As a composer and performer, he engages in works that explore experimentalism, interactivity, and electronic resources. His works have been featured in concerts and music festivals in Brazil and abroad. He is the author of the book Música e Mediação Tecnológica (Perspectiva, 2009) and co-editor, alongside Rui Chaves, of the volume 'Make it Heard: a history of Brazilian sound art' (Bloomsbury, 2019). Since 2009, he has been a researcher at CNPq - Conselho Nacional Brasileiro de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). Website
Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson is an American British curator based in Seyðisfjörður, where he is director of LungA School. He was previously curator at IMT Gallery, London, which he co-founded in 2005, and assistant professor and curator at Northumbria University. His book Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management, was published by Routledge in 2023. Website
Björt Sigfinnsdóttir is an Icelandic musician, artist, and entrepreneur born and based in Seyðisfjörður. In 2000 she co-founded LungA Art Festival and, in 2013, co-founded LungA School. In 2011, she co-founded the HEIMA art residency. Björt released her debut album Poems of the Past under the name FURA in 2016.

Panel 3A. Hearing Criticalities: Layers in Space and Time

Allie Martin, Chantal Eyong, Hector MacInnes, Ingeborg Entrop

Chair: Cathy Lane

Allie Martin is an ethnomusicologist and artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. She is currently an assistant professor at Dartmouth College in the Music Department and the Cluster for Digital Humanities and Social Engagement. Her work is attuned to questions of race, sound and power. Her forthcoming first book, Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC, explores the relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in the nation's capital. Martin is the director of the Black Sound Lab at Dartmouth College, a research environment dedicated to amplifying Black life and decriminalizing Black sound through digital practice.
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Chantal Eyong is a writer, artist, and media producer based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work focuses on Afro-diasporic narratives with relation to self, placemaking, archives, and memory. Her work has been featured on PBS, the Smithsonian Museum, and national/international film festivals. The short documentary she co-produced, “Thailand Untapped,” received a regional Emmy nomination in 2013. Chantal holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of California Riverside and is currently a doctoral student in the Media Arts + Practice program at the University of Southern California.

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Hector MacInnes | I am a sound artist and researcher with a socially engaged practice. I create with spoken word, sonic fiction, installation, text, tech, music, radio and speculative design, often in collaboration with other artists and a diverse range of communities. Having been born and grown up on the Isle of Skye, my projects are deeply rooted in an an ongoing interrogation of belonging, identity, legitimacy and lived experience of the more-than-urban, and I now work with these as central themes across the Highlands, Scotland and the wider UK.

I am also working towards a PhD at CRiSAP (Creative Research Into Sound Arts Practice) at UAL, where I am undertaking practice-based research around the concept of the field, anthropocene rurality, and the New Weird.
Ingeborg Entrop is an artist-researcher based in the Netherlands. She is interested in the nature of place, presence and possible positions we take on our environment. In her artistic explorations she listens to places, to their actual sounds as well as their stories and histories. Her focus lies with waterlogged landscapes such as wetlands, bogs or tidal flats. Her work is often informed by local lore, mythology or specific musical aspects and appears as field recording compositions, audio walks, installations, videos or (graphic) scores.
Ingeborg holds a PhD degree in Physics, a master's degree in Fine Arts and is an avid amateur cellist. Website

Panel 3B. Memory Machines: Inclusion, Ethics, Authenticity

Lila Lakehal, Matt Lewis, Mitchell Akiyama, Nathan Wolek, Neil Spencer Bruce

Chair: Kate Carr

Lila Lakehal is an Algerian-French poet, performer and sound artist based in France. Her practice spans from ancestral investigation to improvised vocals, an "art du lien". Her work has a feminist , decolonial and neurodiverse lens to it and has been shown in CRiSAP symposium in Japan in 2019 and other various venues in France, Algeria and Switzerland. She also runs an online sound lab under the name "mashi miskina" - "i am not a poor thing" in Algerian arabic and is the former frontsinger of the rock band Silwane. She facilitates writing and voice workshops and is currently involved in an alternative music project under the name taos omri. SoundCloud | Website
Matt Lewis is a sound artist and musician whose practice focuses on sound and the social.
He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally in countries including Austria, Brazil, Portugal, Serbia and the USA, in festivals and venues such as Whitechapel Gallery, Tate, Café Oto, The Roundhouse, Diapason NYC, MK Gallery and Turner Contemporary. Recent commissions include Clandestine Airs with Resonance FM and VOID, no such thing as empty space, in collaboration with deafblind charity Sense, Where is the Rustling Wood? part of Metal Culture’s Harvest 15 with Studio Orta, Music for Hearing Aids as part of Unannounced Acts of Publicness in Kings Cross and Exploded Views with Turner Contemporary. From 2012-13 he was an Artist Fellow at Central St Martins and was twice a resident artist with Metal Culture. Matt is a Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art where he leads the Sound Pathway and is co-founder of the Polisonics Research Community, previously Matt taught at CSM, University of Greenwich and LCC. Matt is co-founder of Call & Response, one of Europe’s only independent sound spaces and co-editor of an upcoming book on sonic justice to be published in 2024. Matt holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. Website
Mitchell Akiyama is a Toronto-based scholar, composer, and artist. His eclectic body of work includes writings about sound, metaphors, animals, and media technologies; scores for film and dance; and objects and installations that trouble received ideas about history, perception, and sensory experience. He holds a PhD in communications from McGill University and an MFA from Concordia University and is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Mitchell and collaborator Maria Yablonina are the founders of MAYB studio, an interdisciplinary art and design practice. Website | Instagram
Nathan Wolek (USA, b. 1977) is a sound artist and audio researcher whose work encompasses electronic music, audio field recording, multimedia performance, and sound design. He is currently the Lydia Pfund Endowed Professor, teaching in the Digital Arts program at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. He is also a two-time Fulbright Scholar, recognized twice by this prestigious academic exchange program (Norway 2012 and Scotland 2021). Since 2020, Nathan Wolek and Eve Payor have co-directed Young Sound Seekers, a program that creates opportunities for blind and partially-sighted youth to learn about natural soundscapes and audio field recording at Canaveral National Seashore and other public lands in Central Florida. Website | Instagram | Bsky
Dr Neil Spencer Bruce is a lecturer in Sound Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, specialising in Soundscapes. With a background as a sound artist, field recordist, and sound designer for various media, he holds a PhD focused on urban soundscapes and perception. His research delves into psychoacoustics, psychogeography, soundscape analysis, immersive audio, and sound preservation, particularly in isolated, decaying and liminal spaces, using emerging technologies for sonic storytelling, with a significant emphasis on exploring and preserving the soundscapes of London's Soho. His work integrates immersive narrative experiences, highlighting the importance of soundscape, sound and audio in understanding and documenting a sense of place and sonic environments. Website | Instagram

Friday 5 July

Panel 4A. The Social Lives of Sounds

David Vélez, Kate Carr, Lisa Hall, Spencer MINQ Carter
Chair: Cathy Lane

David Vélez | In my practice, I connect sound art and food, creating horticultural and kitchen experiences to stimulate the well-being of humans and plants. I investigate the interdependency that binds us in farming, combining technologies from bioacoustics and geoacoustics with sound synthesis and transduction. Website
Kate Carr’s practice explores the encounters, textures and technologies entangled with field recording using movement, objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which centre the interactions and collectivity which generate soundscapes. She works across composition, performance and installation. Everything from vibrations caused by cars and footfalls, to overheard murmurs, public speeches, music in public space, and the roar of distant sporting events has found its way into her compositions, and live performances. Inspired by the layers, minglings and silences in our collective soundscapes, Carr is interested in composing works probe the soundscape for clues as to how we negotiate living together. She is particularly focused on hybrid soundscapes: where forest meets town, nuclear power plant meets wetland, booming car stereo meets residential street. Website | Instagram
Lisa Hall is a sound artist and researcher exploring urban environments as a context for everyday sonic communications, connections and entanglements. Collaborative and solo projects are often sited, relational and participatory, staged as walks, rides, workshops, performances, curations, writings, interventions and sound installations. Lisa explores how sound is, or could be, part of everyday living, asking what holds sonic behaviours and hearings in place, and how else this could be. Lisa is working on a PhD in urban sound practices at University of Oxford as part of the SONCITIES research project, is part of the feminist radio group Shortwave Collective, and works at CRiSAP research center. Website | Instagram | X
Spencer “MINQ” Carter (they/them) is a sound artist, DJ, radio host, performer and mentor living in Berlin. They are currently pursuing an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Art at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Ritual, time, story-telling and sci-fi are some of the themes and also the means MINQ utilizes in their practice. They are committed to local, creative community initiatives such as Open Music Lab where they act as a mentor for music production students and Refuge Worldwide, where they host their monthly show, Sonic Utopias. MINQ is also exploring sound-based mindfulness practices such as Deep Listening and facilitating workshops with the aim to discover what lies at the intersection of mindfulness, movement and sound in QTBIPoc-centered spaces in their research project and workshop series Sonic Utopias | Research Lab. SoundCloud | Instagram

Panel 4B. Performing Archives, Hearing Histories, Tuning, Technologies

Alexander Collinson, Gisa Weszkalnys, Maja Zećo, Rachel Grant and William Otchere-Darko, Jonas Spieker, Nicol Parkinson
Chair: Hector MacInnes

Alexander Collinson is Sound and Exhibition designer with a BA in Sound Design and MA in Narrative Environments. His flair for compelling sound design has seen his work featured across Europe in a number of locations including national museums such as the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Alexander's research focuses on themes of conflict and trauma, while taking an alternative approach to museum interpretation utilising sound and the human voice at the forefront of his work, most notably with the use of oral testimony and recorded sound archives. Website

Dr Maja Zećo (Gray’s School of Art) is a practice-based researcher exploring identities and listening in spaces of socio-political tensions and post-conflict areas. This work informs her practice of de-colonising through critical engagement with institutional, group and individual narratives. Her sound and performance pieces have been presented internationally, including London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Zurich, Vienna and Sarajevo. Her research on the contextualities of listening through soundwalking and sound field recording was published in Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press) and Journal of Sonic Studies (Leiden University Press). Website | Instagram
Rachel Grant (Fertile Ground) is a Freelance Curator who has extensive experience in developing artist-led programmes and engages regularly with environmental initiatives. Previous and current projects focus on oil and energy politics.
Dr Gisa Weszkalnys (London School of Economics) is an Anthropologist with more than two decades’ experience of ethnographic research on place making, planning, and the anticipatory politics of energy developments in Europe and West Africa (São Tomé and Príncipe).
Dr William Otchere-Darko (Newcastle University) is an Urbanist whose research focuses on the political economy of energy and spatial planning in Ghana and the United Kingdom.
Jonas Spieker is a PhD candidate and research assistant in the Department of Musicology at Paderborn University. His research focuses on the relationship between nature and technology in posthumanist sound art. He is currently working as an editor on the forthcoming anthology "Non-binary Resonances. Sound and Gender in Posthumanism" and as a sound artist on the installation "HABITAT" in Stuttgart, Germany. Beyond his academic pursuits, Spieker is a climate activist, combining his passion for the sounding world with a strong commitment to environmental issues. Instagram | LinkedIn
Nicol Parkinson is an artist and researcher working with sound in the fields of music, live art and performance seeking out the connections and confusions between these forms. Their practice investigates the use of sounding strategies in composition and improvisation as they weave through the corporeal, verbal, temporal, social, political and historical spheres. They are slowly building a vocabulary of material approaches, both visible and obscured, embracing flexibility of form, in an effort to avoid settled definition. CRiSAP Profile

Panel 5A. Listening, Relistening, Reflecting, Resisting

Amias Hanley, Nombuso Mathibela and Sibonelo Gumede, Paulo Dantas, Pragya Sharma
Chair: Cannach MacBride

Amias Hanley | Through sound and spatial media, I explore auditory-led questions that engage the scholarship of queer ecologies and transgender studies. Central to my practice is the question of how listening processes can give rise to the experience of ecological awareness and how auditory sensations can produce senses of being, place, and relationality. These inquiries are often site-responsive, generating material speculative encounters that aim to offer sonic propositions for engaging composite forms and conditions.
Currently, my research-practice focuses on exploring the purposes and mechanisms used by plants, animals, and machines to process, interpret, and understand audio signals. I am particularly interested in investigating the artistic possibilities and influence of these processes on the futures of sonic communication, sound ecologies, and auditory cultures. Website
Nombuso Mathibela is a cultural worker, educator, writer, and vinyl selector based in Johannesburg, working through sound, focusing on anti-colonial liberation histories and cultural ecological behaviours in Africa. She is the founder of Jewel Scents & Song, a Pan-African research space thinking through metal and jewellery production. And an archivist at the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Gender at the University of Johannesburg. linktr.ee
Sibonelo Gumede is an urbanist and cultural worker based in South Africa. Gumede’s practice is concerned with engaging the temporalities of colonial afterlives, for how they can connect matters of space and relationality as well as build connective memory and reparative practices. Instagram
Paulo Dantas works as composer and sound artist, teacher and sound technician. In his recent artistic production, he is interested in promoting dialogues between music, field recording, sound design and other art forms, in collaboration with places, recording devices, synthesizers, texts and other. Website
Pragya Sharma is an AHRC-funded Doctoral Researcher in the History of Design at the University of Brighton. Her research project titled ‘ Cultures of Hand-knitting in North India: Provenance, Domesticity and Gendered Learning, c.1850-1980’ unravels and decenters histories of hand-knitting from the Indian subcontinent, intertwining colonial and gender histories. She is currently working on her first book which records the impact of the changing climate on Indian weaving communities. Website |  Instagram

Panel 5B. Amplification, Attention, Reception

Anandit Sachdev, Jacek Smolicki, Jess Pinney, Julia Barton
Chair: Mark Peter Wright

Anandit Sachdev is a researcher, sound designer, music producer and DJ based out of Delhi, India. He is also the founder of Antariksh Records, an independent record label promoting underground electronic music in the Indian subcontinent. In 2023, Anandit started an umbrella project under Antariksh Records by the name of Antariksh Sound and Media Collection (ASMC) – a nebulous artist collective exploring dialectics of being and becoming through sound and digital media. In addition to his creative and artistic practices, he teaches questions of sound to design students across India. Instagram
Jacek Smolicki is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator. His work explores temporal, existential and technological dimensions of listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human contexts. His work is manifested through soundwalks, soundscape compositions, diverse forms of writing, site-responsive performances, and audiovisual installations (e.g. Young Art Biennial, Moscow, In-Sonora, Madrid, Ars Electronica, Linz, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Holden Chapel, Harvard University, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver, Sonorities, Belfast). Smolicki holds a PhD in Media and Communications from Malmö University and has recently completed a postdoc position at Linköping University with a guest affiliation at Simon Fraser, Vancouver. In 2022/2023 he was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard. He is currently a researcher at Uppsala University. In 2019 he co-founded the Walking Festival of Sound, a transdisciplinary event focusing on the creative and critical potential of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. Smolicki is the editor of “Soundwalking. Through Time, Space, and Technologies,” published in 2023 by Routledge. Website
J A Pinney (b. 1984) has exhibited as a sound artist in ‘Australia’ and the UK since 2010. Pinney's practice directs attention to how specific locations sound, considering their ecological, cultural, historical, and affective importance. In 2010, they gained a Master of Arts in Sound Art from London College of Communication. A current PhD candidate in RMITs school of art, Pinney researches how natural environments can be framed and heightened to facilitate specific modes of listening. Pinney was born and is based in Naarm, Melbourne, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people and is of mixed European descent. Instagram
Julia Barton is a 2023-24 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She was the founding executive editor of Pushkin Industries, an audio production house based in New York, where she edited narrative podcasts and audiobooks. Website

Panel 6A. Interference, Energy, Technology, Polyphony

Bariya: Pratyush Pushkar and Riya Raagini, Soundcamp: Mort Drew, Grant Smith, Dawn Scarfe and Sasha Baraister, Julian Weaver, Matt Parker
Chair: Kate Carr

Pratyush Pushkar & Riya Raagini a.k.a. Bariya is a queer transdisciplinary artist and writer duo from New Delhi, India. Their practice navigates through creating/rediscovering queer/granular cognitive responses, collaboratively listening to ecology, running an ecological radio station, mediating everyday sonic reconciliations through posthuman listening, polyphonically listening to cities and spaces aiming to examine and host alternative forms of cognition, spirituality and resolve, in a background of decolonial service, non-cooperation and care.
Their work has recently been exhibited, broadcasted, and published at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2022), Thyssen Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid (2021), Prospect Art, Los Angeles (2022), Radio Tsonami, Chile (2021), Radhiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2022),
Future Nostalgia FM - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany (2022), and Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2023) among others.
Their current project "The Delhi Polyphones" was developed as part of the 2023 Homebound Residency: Digital Communities at 421 Arts Centre, Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi.
Website | Instagram
Soundcamp Cooperative: Mort Drew, Dawn Scarfe, Sasha Baraitser Smith, Grant Smith | Soundcamp are an arts cooperative based at Stave Hill Ecological Park in London, and in Yorkshire, Berlin, Glasgow and Crete. Our work appears as broadcasts, workshops, publications, sound devices and events.As part of the Acoustic Commons network, we coordinate the long-form radio broadcast Reveil (2014–), and a series of sound and ecology events (sound camps) on Dawn Chorus day each year.
Recent projects include: Work Shop #1 – a space at LJ:Works, Loughborough Junction (2023–); Radio With Palestine, a series of live broadcasts from demonstrations; Spree ~ Channelsea Radio Group, connecting rivers in London and Berlin (2023); l a g – a residency for Sonic Acts’ Inner ear(th) programme (2022); and As if radio.. (AIR): An experiment in ecological activist radio at COP26 Glasgow (2021).
A full list of activities is at soundtent.org > news.
Website | Acoustic Commons | Instagram | X
Julian Weaver is an artist who works primarily with sound. His work focuses on matter, substance and sensing in scientific, and historical, imaginaries and fictions.
Water is a regular component of his practice which ranges from bubble acoustics and seaweed's extractive economies to the charting of hydrogen isotopes in nuclear fusion, from remaking the cold water cures of Hydropathy to exploring the English Channel as a site of nausea.
His recent work includes the Acoustic Commons installation Nearly Present (Full of Noises, 2022), project partner on Listening Across Disciplines (AHRC, 2019-22), and Creative Director / Commissioning Curator for the Euratom fusion energy exhibition: Power to the People (EUROfusion, 2018-31). Website | Finetuned | Instagram
Matt Parker is a critical sound explorer; an artist researching the resonances between things. His multimedia works are influenced by the practice of listening; to unsound vibratory ecologies and the economies of noise. His research engages with sound studies, media ecology, field recording and environmental humanities through a spectral art practice. He is currently the Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Website

Panel 6B. Sensory Collaborations

Ecka Mordecai, GUI Ren and Ryo Ikeshiro, Samuel Hertz, Tania Rubio
Chair: Victoria Karlsson

Ecka Mordecai is an artist working with sound, scent and performance. bandcamp
GUI Ren is a researcher and musician. She is currently a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong. Her research employs sound as the primary medium to explore the dynamic links between sound and identity, emotion, and space. She has been invited as a speaker at conferences such as IAPMS 2020, IASPM XXI 2022, MuSA 2022, IsaScience 2023, etc. Website | Instagram | Facebook
Ryo Ikeshiro is an artist, musician and researcher exploring the possibilities of meaning, context and materiality in sound and audio technologies. His practice includes installations and live performances using data sonification, Ambisonics field recording, machine listening and video. His works have been exhibited at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, and M+, Hong Kong, and he is a contributor to Sound Art: Sound as a medium of art (ZKM Karlsruhe/MIT). He is Assistant Professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Website | Instagram | Facebook | X
Samuel Hertz is a composer and researcher working with sound-sensing networks of environmental and climate science research. His work explores a material approach to sound that extend ways of hearing the complex violence of environmental change. His artistic work and research has been presented in locations such as the Ars Electronica Festival 2020 (AT), Palais de Tokyo (FR), Akademie der Künste (DE), Wave Farm/Pioneer Works (US), Fylkingen (SE), the Onassis Foundation (GR), Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE), Radio Amnion (CA), and aboard the International Space Station among others. Samuel is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London Centre for GeoHumanities. Website
Tania Rubio | Composer, sound artist, artistic researcher, and field recordist
My work is focused on the study of sound within animal communication and natural acoustic environments for the creation of new music. My research is primarily centered on Biomusic, exploring the realms of acoustic ecology through interdisciplinary and intercultural studies of soundscapes. I am particularly interested in the dynamic interplay between art and science from an ecocritical perspective. I engage in diverse concert formats, ranging from musical theater to immersive multichannel sound installations and hybrid forms, all aimed at fostering a contextualized listening experience deeply embedded in the geocultural and biopolitical dimensions of sonic events. I am the founder and director of the Acoustic Ecology Lab in Mexico.
I have premiered more than 50 works in different formats in more than 15 countries between America and Europe, in international festivals. I have received several awards and recognitions for my work; the most recent are: "Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte,” México 2023-2026; "Sharing Knowledge" by the Danish Composers' Society and Art Music Denmark in collaboration with Initiative Neue Musik, Berlin 2023; "Internationaler Koproduktionsfonds 2022-2023" by the Goethe Institut, among others.
I am pursuing doctoral studies with Carola Bauckholt with the project: "Biomusic: from Animal Communication to Music Composition" at the Anton Bruckner Private University. Website | Facebook | Instagram | Instagram - Laboratorio de Ecología Acústica en México

Panel 7A. Bodies, Care and Ghosts

Banu Çiçek Tülü, Helen Anahita Wilson, Joanna Penso, Leon Clowes
Chair: Louise Marshall

Banu Çiçek Tülü (Turkey/Germany) is a sound artist, music producer, DJ and researcher with a background in design theory. She develops her ideas and research by using sound as a primary medium and sonic methodologies. Her practice-based artistic approach involves participation, social design, ecology, feminist and queer theory which uses artistic, cultural and political imagination as tools for social change. The process of the artistic production is crucial and it is mostly presented as multi-channel video and sound installations, sculptural elements, textile, various objects, and light. Banu has a monthly residency in Refuge Worldwide Radio in Berlin. She is currently lecturer in Sound Studies and Sonic Acts Master program Berlin University of the Arts. Her upcoming solo exhibition will be shown in GAK Bremen, where she continues to question the German health care system in relation to female body, migration, pain, grief and healing. Website | Instagram
Dr Helen Anahita Wilson is an Oram Award-winning composer, sound artist, pianist, improviser, and has recently completed a practice-based PhD at SOAS University of London. Her practice brings together research in South Asian musics, especially South Indian rhythmic theories, with expressions of biomedical processes, interpretations of plant biodata, reimaginings of hospital radio, and experiments in sonic life writing: how to share biographical stories through non-lexical sound. Latest commissions include Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival hcmf//, Brighton Dome and Festival, Bloomsbury Festival, and her practice-based research involving medicinal plants has recently been featured on BBC Radio 4's Today, BBC Radio 3’s The Essay, BBC 6Music, and New Scientist. Website | Instagram
Joanna Penso is an artist working with sound-led experiments, investigating human connection and the barriers to it. Working with performance & video installation, Penso has recently exhibited at the Aesthetica Art Prize, The Nunnery Gallery, London and St Ives September Festival. Her radio show 'The Symphony Beneath the Skin' aired on RTM.fm as part of her residency with the artist radio station September 2022- March 2023 and she was awarded DYCP funding from the Arts Council 2024 to explore live amplification of the body. Her next upcoming solo show will be at Garage Gallery, London July 25-28 2024. Website | Instagram
leon clowes (b. 1970) is an older white working-class queer musician-composer + multidisciplinary artist who lives well with mental health issues and in maintaining recovery from addictions and abuse.
Since 2020, leon’s multidisciplinary artworks have featured in/been commissioned by Druskomanija, SPILL, SUPERNORMAL and Deptford X festivals, Contemporary Music for All, Frieze Art Fair, Cafe Oto, WORM Rotterdam, Queer Art Projects, Disability Arts Online, Margate Pride, Queer Contemporaries, Datscha Radio Berlin and Britten Pears Arts/Snape Maltings.
A 2022-23 Associate Artist of Open School East, leon is a scholarship-supported PhD student at London College of Music until Spring 2025 conducting research into self-compassionate autoethnographic trauma-inspired artworks. Website |  Instagram | X | Facebook

Panel 7B. Sonic Ethnographies

Anna Vermeulen, Eisuke Yanagisawa, Karl Salzmann, Tilly Mason
Chair: Angus Carlyle

Anna Vermeulen is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Musicology of KU Leuven and FU Berlin. She completed her master’s studies in musicology in 2020 in Leuven, receiving the Hélène Nolthenius Prize by the Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands for her master’s thesis about postcolonial thought in contemporary radiophonic composition. She was a visiting scholar at New York University (2024) and Humboldt University Berlin (2020-21), funded by DAAD. As a music journalist she wrote for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard and numerous new music organizations. She currently holds a doctoral fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders (2021-25). Her PhD-project focuses on listening knowledge and the use of documentary practices in radiophonic composition. KU Leuven Profile | Free University Berlin Profile
Eisuke Yanagisawa is a researcher in sound culture and a field recordist based in Kyoto, Japan, currently holding a Restart Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Since 2006, he has conducted extensive research on the gong culture of ethnic minorities in Vietnam and more recently on the sound culture of Japan. His audiovisual works have been featured at international film festivals and museums, and published by various renowned labels. Notable works include "Ultrasonic Scapes" (Gruenrekorder, 2011), "Music of the Bahnar People from the Central Highlands of Vietnam" (Sublime Frequencies, 2016), "Uminari Tonari" (Otobin, 2018), "Path of the Wind" (Gruenrekorder, 2018), "Wetland" (immeasurable, 2020), and "Voices of Memu" (MSCTY_EDN, 2024). His latest book, "Introduction to Field Recording: Encountering the World in Resonance," published by Film Art Inc. in 2022, received both the Grand Prize and the Readers' Choice Award at Japan's inaugural Music Book Awards. Website | Facebook | Instagram | SoundCloud
Karl Salzmann is a sound and media artist based in Vienna, Austria. In his artistic practice he uses sound and noise and combines them in performance, conceptual and installation art. Salzmann currently teaches at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he runs the ÆSR Lab - the Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory. His work has been shown (among others) at ACFNY New York, Kunsthalle Bratislava and Kunsthaus Graz. Since 2021 he is a doctoral candidate at the ARC - Artistic Research Centre of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Website
Tilly Mason is currently a masters student in the department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, but completed her undergraduate Geography degree at the London School of Economics. She is a musician, DJ and field recordist under the name 'craggyland', and is particularly interested in the violence of the urban soundscape and the 'sonic order' of space. She remixes field recordings, such as for Cities and Memories’ autumn project 2023, and has a monthly show called techture on Subcity Radio, playing field recordings and music to discuss the links between architecture and sound. Instagram | X | SoundCloud

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Panel 8. Audio Channels: Swarms, Streams, Samples, Dummy Heads

David Michael and Michael Clemow, Ecka Mordecai and Rory Salter, John Grzinich, Lia Mazzari
Chair: Mark Peter Wright

David Michael is a published writer, recordist and technologist based in Sleepy Hollow, NY (USA). Website
Mike Clemow is a trans-disciplinary artist, working with traditional and digital media, based in Brooklyn, NY (USA). David and Mike met at a field-recording residency in South Africa in 2013 and have collaborated on field-recording projects ever since. For the last three years, they have been working on an extended project in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta in Alabama, setting up microphones in the swamp and asking the question “Why record at all?”  | Website
Ecka Mordecai is an artist working with sound, scent and performance. Bandcamp
Rory Salter is a musician, artist and technician living in London. He has published albums under various monikers with Index Clean, TEETH, Zoomin' Night, Alter, TakuRoku, Infant Tree, Bison and amongst others.
His work is formed through experimentations with acoustic & electronic instruments, faulty & functional technologies, cassette tape, feedback and walking; motivated by exploring relationships to environment, work/labour & materials. It is rooted in practice and the forms of documentation and theory that come from that practice. He has performed and worked with Ecka Mordecai, Derek Baron, Russell Walker, Mark Peter Wright, Regan Bowering, Li Song and others. Website
John Grzinich (Estonia/US) has worked since the early 1990s as an artist and cultural coordinator with various practices combining sound, moving image, site-specificity, and collaborative social structures. His work often explores the perception of sound and space to find resonance between people and places. In recent years his focus has been on combining sound and listening practices with various media to confront anthropocentric perceptions of the world through expanded forms of participatory engagement. Website | Bandcamp | Avant Whatever Profile
Lia Mazzari is a sound artist and researcher. In her practice she engages audiences through encounters with art in non-conventional spaces using performance, composition, installation and intervention. Recorded and live events explore her relationship to sound and listening through engaging environmental recording, cello, voices, whip cracking and most recently live audio streaming methods. Winner of an Oram Award in 2022, Lia was the founder of Silver Road, a drained water-tank venue for time-based art practices (London) and developed works for Tate Modern/Britain, BiennaleGherdeina, Zone2Source Gallery, SLG, British School of Rome, V&A Dundee. She is currently a postgraduate researcher at the Department of Geography at RHUL, London. Website | Instagram

Panel 9. Localities and Elsewheres

alejandro t. acierto, Moushumi Bhowmik, Peter Cusack, Robert O Beahrs, Safeya Alblooshi
Chair: Angus Carlyle

alejandro t. acierto is an artist, musician, and curator whose work highlights the impact of colonial legacies across technologies, material culture, and the environment. He has presented projects and screenings for the Havana Biennial (Matanzas, Cuba), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MCA Chicago, Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles), Eastside Projects (Birmingham, UK), and performance works for the Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival (Chicago) and the KANEKO (Omaha).
acierto has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Banff Centre. A 3Arts Awardee and Phoenix Artists to Work Grant recipient, he was an inaugural Artist in Residence for Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University and a Digital Humanities Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. He currently lives on occupied territories of the Akimel O’odham and Piipaash peoples in Phoenix, Arizona in the USA. Website | Instagram
Moushumi Bhowmik | I am a singer, writer, collector and archivist of songs and sounds. My work is largely centred on the question of what and where home is. Whilst based in Kolkata, I travel between India, Bangladesh and the UK, collaborating with artists and scholars across disciplines and languages. I co-created and now run The Travelling Archive, an archive of field recordings and field notes from Bengal, with support from a collective of friends, scholars and artists. I hold a PhD from the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University for my work on the wax cylinder recordings of Arnold Bake from Bengal from the 1930s. I write on music, sound, memory and archives, mainly relating to Bengal, in both Bangla and English. My writings have been published in several edited anthologies and journals. I am in the process of transforming my doctoral thesis into a book.  The Travelling Archive | Facebook | SoundCloud | YouTube
Peter Cusack is a field recordist and musician with a long interest in our acoustic environment. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about everyday soundscapes and ‘Sounds from Dangerous Places’ that uses sonic journalism to investigate places of major environmental damage. He plays improvised music on guitar and field recordings, is a member of CRiSAP, UAL and in 2011/12 was a guest of the DAAD Berlin Künstlerprogramm. Most recently he has become involved with radio.aporee/radio.earth, remote audio streaming, soundwalking and making music which regards the sound environment as a participant. Website
Robert O. Beahrs is an artist, sonic researcher, and ethnomusicologist from Minnesota currently living in Istanbul. His work examines more-than-human kinship, sociomaterial geographies of voice, and the politics of heritage in Inner, Central, and West Asia. Through multispecies ethnography and practice-based research, he seeks to understand the role of musicking in transforming shared consciousness, ecological sensibility, and community well-being. He studied music at Pomona College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Berkeley. After working for several years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, he joined the Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) at Istanbul Technical University as a lecturer in ethnomusicology. His recent work appears in the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies and in a special issue of the journal Asian Music on the transregional politics of throat-singing as cultural heritage in Inner and Central Asia. Website
Safeya Alblooshi is a sound artist who experiments with found sound via participatory performance and installation. Her work extends to being presented and performed at the Expo 2020 Dubai, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Alserkal Avenue, IRCAM Forum, London Design Biennale, Festival X, Sharjah Art Foundation, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She was part of the second cohort of Numoo in 2023 at the NYUAD Arts Center, where she recently curated the 4th edition of ElectroFest, and the founder and organizer of Resound UAE supported by the National Grant Program for Culture & Creativity. Safeya is a Kawader Fellow with the Music and Sound Cultures research group as a Research Assistant at NYU Abu Dhabi. Instagram

Panel 10. Acoustic Witnessing

Alejandro Castillejo- Cuéllar, Alexander Vojvoda and Korab Krasniqi, Lara James and Leah Kardos, Luz Maria Sanchez Cardona
Chair: Cathy Lane

Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Former Commissioner of Colombia's Truth Commission, Colombia. He has significant ethnographic experience in the fields of violence, culture and subjectivity, political transitions in Latine America and Africa. His work has dealt, over the last 25 years, with the impact that different forms of violence have had on the existential landscape of human experience. In this context, he has conducted collaborative fieldwork in Colombia and South Africa with victims’ and social organizations and former combatants. Currently, associate professor of anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Alexander Vojvoda is community media activist and sociologist. He is currently Project Manager with forumZFD in Kosovo and works in the areas of conflict-sensitive journalism, reporting on dealing with the past, community and non-majority media, and memorialization processes in public spaces. Alexander holds an MSc in Sociology from the JKU Linz (AT) and an MA in Political Communications from the Goldsmiths College London (UK). Previously, Alexander collaborated with Bread for the World, World Association of Community Radios, the Council of Europe, Deutsche Welle Akademie and UNESCO amongst others.

Korab Krasniqi works as project manager at the German organization in Prishtina, Kosovo, forumZFD (Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V.|Forum Civil Peace Service). He is a researcher, civil society, and memory activist, focused on dealing with the past, transitional justice, and memorialization. He is completing an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Prishtina, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Korab has attended the fellowship program at Columbia University, NYC, on Historical Dialogue and Accountability and was part of numerous dealing with the past educational programs, locally and internationally. Korab explores photography, art and museology as a medium to foster a broader conversation on memory and the difficult past. Website | Facebook

Leah Kardos is a composer/producer, writer and senior lecturer in music at Kingston University London, UK, where she co-founded the Visconti Studio with music producer Tony Visconti. She specialises in the areas of record production, pop aesthetics and analysis, and exploring interdisciplinary approaches to creative music practice. She releases music with Universal Music, Bigo & Twigetti, and Spun out of Control Records. Website
Lara James is a final year PhD student at the University for the Creative Arts, engaged in a study of professional musicians and the impact of Covid-19 and the pandemic lockdown on their careers, mental wellbeing, financial, cultural and creative lives. As a saxophonist she performs across a variety of genres and has released two CDs on Signum Classics. She is a part-time lecturer at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, also coaching and lecturing on a consultative freelance basis. Website
Luz María Sánchez (MX). Transdisciplinary visual artist, writer, and scholar. Sánchez received two consecutive Prix Ars Electronica’s Honorary Mentions (2020, 2021) for her project Vis.[un]necessary force. With a professional career of +26 years, Sánchez has exhibited widely in Europe and the Americas. Sánchez has authored four books on Beckett and sound and presented by invitation at leading institutions such as the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute Chicago and ZKM | Center for Art and Media. Karlsruhe. Sánchez is presenting her first retrospective exhibition at Arsenal Galeria Miejska. Poznań (2024). Website

Saturday 6 July Workshops

Workshop 1A Playing Back

Beth Robertson is a sound artist based in London and Glasgow. Her practice traverses boundaries of sound, ecology and geography in an interdisciplinary investigation into the testimonies of the more-than-human. Through the use of field recordings, photography and music she creates sound maps that explore local ecologies and experiments with playful interactive mediums of listening. Beth is a graduate of the Sound Art MA at LCC, her sound work has been displayed in the Barbican, Dilston Grove and currently in Groundwork Gallery. She was selected for the UAL Arts for the Environment Residency Programme at NAHR and with support from Creative Scotland, the Bothy Project on Eigg. She also has a monthly radio show on Resonance FM exploring the entangled urban identities of London’s local wildlife. Website | Instagram

Workshop 1B The Eurovision Field Recording Project

Chase Coley is a Director at Crab Museum, Europe's first and only multi-award winning independent science museum dedicated to the decapod. In addition to his role, Chase is a practising sound artist, sound recordist and experimental instrument builder, specialising in the creation of new innovative acoustic musical instruments. Website | Crab Museum

Workshop 2A The Things You Hear And The Stories You Write About Them

Travis Yu is a sound artist. Their work intersects between sound, experimental theatre and visual arts. Primarily working with themes like intimacy, history, and time, they use their voice as an investigative tool towards finding a personal anthropology.
Their practice often consolidates into performances, sound installations, dance, video, writing, objects, folk music, etc., recent work includes Four Concrete Walls, Nobody Knows, and Swan Song Pt.1. While their work displays a wide array of mediums, they show a great interest in connecting with their surroundings through listening and sound-making. Instagram | Website

Workshop 2B Our shared georhythms: bodies, scores, mixtures

MUD Collective is a sedimentology–art–sound research group collaborating across Iraq, India, France, and the UK. Between us we are currently exploring thinking with, through, and about mud, in consideration of shifting ideas around human and more-than-human, organic and inorganic intra-actions, and towards a real geopolitics for today: geosphere-biosphere. Combining a transdisciplinary approach that entangles creative practice, pedagogy, and scientific curiosity, we create work that questions our relationality to earthly systems and forces, to promote kinships, healing, reciprocity, and response-ability.
MUD Collective is: Shaima al-Sitrawi, William Crosby, Kelcy Davenport, Farah Mulla, James Norton, Nawrast Sabah Abdalwahab, Sally Stenton, and Sarah Strachan. Website | Instagram

Exhibition

In the Field / Of the Field

Sound Works

Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Former Commissioner of Colombia's Truth Commission, Colombia. He has significant ethnographic experience in the fields of violence, culture and subjectivity, political transitions in Latine America and Africa. His work has dealt, over the last 25 years, with the impact that different forms of violence have had on the existential landscape of human experience. In this context, he has conducted collaborative fieldwork in Colombia and South Africa with victims’ and social organizations and former combatants. Currently, associate professor of anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Fransisca Angela uses image, text, video, and installation to capture everyday lived experiences. Her work mainly touches upon human stories in relation to place, the in-between, and collective memory. She is currently a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Website
Hugo Scurto is a music artist, designer and researcher*, born and based in Marseille. A normalien in Physics, they completed a PhD at IRCAM entitled “Designing With Machine Learning for Interactive Music Dispositifs” (2016-2019), three post-doctorates at EnsadLab (2020-2022), then co-founded w·lfg.ng, an AI-based music collective. Their practice consists in creating, listening and performing with learning machines, drawing from queer materialism to reveal and reshape our musical entanglement with/in the world. Hugo's transdisciplinary research-creations were presented in diverse artistic, academic and social contexts, including Ars Electronica, CTM Festival, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne, NIME, ACM DIS, TOCHI, Friche la Belle de Mai, Cirque Électrique or Lutherie Urbaine.
Janet Sit is a current music composition doctoral student at the University of California San Diego with a background in zoology. Her research explores de-centerings of terrestrial reference points towards underwater perceptions and histories within ocean humanities, critical theories, and her lived experiences in [formal colonial] Hong Kong and Canada. Her artistic practices include acoustic/electronic media, sound installations and field recording practice. Recent highlights include writing a celebration prelude for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, participating in the 2023-24 Canadian League of Composers PIVOT mentorship program, being on the sound design team for Gravebirth, a multi-disciplinary project for the UCSD IDEAS series. Parallel to exploring music and sound in her works, Janet seeks to engage diverse audiences to support dialogue and community-building on environmental and social matters. When not at her desk, she can be found scuba diving and snorkeling along the California coastline as a newly PADI-certified open water diver. Instagram
Kalli Anderson is a Canadian documentary maker and sound artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her film and audio documentary works and sound art collaborations have screened in international festivals and have been broadcast on the BBC and CBC and on narrative podcasts. She is associate professor and director of audio at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY). Website | Instagram | X
Min Ji Choi is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her dissertation reads for ghosts within modern Korean realism, that unearth the political and imperial imperatives behind the excision of shamanistic epistemology from social discourse. Her interests are on the ghostly and the haunting; she has presented or published on the PSYOPS Ghost Tape, the Society of Psychical Research, and the ghost and magical realism in works of Hwang Sŏk-Yŏng.
Gaia Crocella, Mireia Ludevid Llop, and Julia Schauerman | Julia Schauerman combines the acousmatic composer's powerful and poetic way of handling sounds with collaborative practice to tell stories of crisis, change and community. Mireia Ludevid Llop’s practice engages with memory transmission and politics through visual arts. Her focus on the entanglement between personal narratives and political agency seeks to challenge their severance in mnemonic discourses and national politics. Gaia Crocella investigates food as a design tool and a social connector. Her spatial practice through hosting constitutes a form of care and a call to action that generates new visions.
Mireia Ludevid Llop: Website | Instagram
Julia Schauerman: Website | Instagram

Video Works

Cheng Yang is an emerging artist and a researcher, who graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and now is a PhD candidate at the City University of Hong Kong. Cheng applies arts-based research to cultivate communication between humans, nature and culture. Her artwork involves art installations, interdisciplinary art, sound art and media art to allow the audience to perceive our society where culture and nature merge. In 2024, Cheng held two solo exhibitions at the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, and Art House, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden. Website | Instagram

Ruby Caurlette is a visual artist and activist based in Syria. She works mainly with digital media, videos, and AR installation. Ruby's work explores the ongoing human interactions related to the various human aspects, and focuses specifically on the female presence, women's bodies, and issues of questioning the collective memory in light of the Syrian war using drawings, visual testimonies, and oral history. her last project “Return and Confusion” explored the journey after her return to her homeland Syria. It examined ways to connect the identity of returnees to the social and cultural fabric, from the perspective of returnees by documenting that part of their lives. Instagram

Liv Kisby is an audiovisual practitioner, socio-cultural researcher and musician, based in London. Their practice explores place-making, psychogeography and sensory experience through experimental non-fiction, using multimedia with a focus on sound. They are interested in developing a community-oriented approach to researching and producing stories about in-between places, speculating about the future through collaborative and experimental methods. Liv holds a Distinction in MA Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, and a First Class degree in BA Media, Communications and Cultural Studies with a specialisation in Radio from Goldsmiths, University of London. Website | Instagram

Kimberly Forero-Arnías (she/ella) is an experimental animator whose work has screened across the United States as well as internationally at festivals including Rotterdam, Ann Arbor, Images Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is the recipient of various awards including the SMFA Traveling Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and the Film Studies Center Fellowship at Harvard. Website

Jiaxi Xie | I am a music PhD student in ethnomusicology and sound art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before studying in the UK, I lived in China for over twenty years, where I majored in literature as an undergraduate. I later did masters in Social Anthropology and Visual Anthropology in London. I am intrigued by combining ethnographic visual methods and sonic field recordings in my projects.

Diego Benalcazar is an Ecuadorian composer, producer, and sound designer based in London. His work primarily explores sound and video as mediums, focusing on experimental music, immersive sound, ancestral sound artefacts, archival processes, and sound memory. Inspired by pre-Hispanic sound practices, he strives to create pieces that evoke reflection on a post-colonial era.
Diego holds a doctorate in musicology and a MA in Audio Production. He has exhibited his work in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. Currently, he is working on new compositions with virtualised ancestral sound objects from ore-Hispanic cultures. When not in the studio, Diego enjoys cooking and riding his bike. Website | LinkedIn
Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson is an American British curator based in Seyðisfjörður, where he is director of LungA School. He was previously curator at IMT Gallery, London, which he co-founded in 2005, and assistant professor and curator at Northumbria University. His book Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management, was published by Routledge in 2023. Website
Björt Sigfinnsdóttir is an Icelandic musician, artist, and entrepreneur born and based in Seyðisfjörður. In 2000 she co-founded LungA Art Festival and, in 2013, co-founded LungA School. In 2011, she co-founded the HEIMA art residency. Björt released her debut album Poems of the Past under the name FURA in 2016.

Sally Ann McIntyre is a Hobart-born poet, writer/researcher, sound and radio artist who recently relocated to Melbourne/Naarm from Dunedin/Otakou, Aotearoa. Since 2008 she has programmed the Mini FM station radio cegeste 104.5FM as a small mobile platform for various site-responsive radio art events, reimagining the radio as a form of process-based fieldwork in particular landscapes and environmental/social contexts. Working with transmission, field recording and archival sound technologies, her projects investigate the history of soundscapes as sites of ecological absence and degradation, and charted and imagined sites of memory, in the creation of alternate sound archives. Exhibitions include Nature Reserves (GV Art, London, 2013), Ghost Biologies (Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2016), Das Grosse Rauschen: the Metamorphosis of Radio, (Halle, Germany, 2016), the Audiograft Festival (Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2018). Her sound work has been published on the labels Consumer Waste, winds measure, Idealstate, Impulsive Habitat, Sonic Arts Research Unit (SARU), and as a sonic component to an exhibition about the paranormal in contemporary art practice: Medium Paranormal Field Recordings and Compositions, 1901-2017 by The Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), Atlanta, U.S. Website | Instagram