We're celebrating 20 years of CRiSAP sound arts research centre at UAL with 20 radio broadcasts on Resonance Extra. The month long series begins today, and episodes run at 1pm daily throughout October.

I have had the pleasure of contributing to the episode on Curating Sound, talking with Salomé Voegelin and Irene Revell about the role of the curator, where I was able to and think through some of my PhD ideas around curation as practice-based research with these two incredible curators.  We also talked about curation and politics and the listening curator, areas of focus within Salomé and Irene's work. Tune in on Thursday 16 October to hear it.

I am also recording a session with Cathy Lane and Annie Goh, reflecting on the Sound Gender Feminism Activism conference series that I have worked on since 2014 - it's an impressive body of work and most importantly a space to grow a network and make connections. Tune in on Tuesday 14th October to hear it.

Here's the full schedule, and you can also listen back on Resonance Extra thanks to their incredible archive.

We were delighted to have been included in the CRiSAP 20th Anniversary celebrations this autumn, invited to perform as part of the Evening with CRiSAP event at Cafe Oto, and to be the final act of the night. We had the opportunity to collaborate with ​artist Amanda Gutiérrez visiting from Mexico City and so created a new live performance which explored the amplification of women's voices. We were in excellent company, performing alongside: Annie Goh, Mark Peter Wright, Angus Carlyle, Rory Salter, Cathy Lane and Thomas Gardner. 

Read more about the night on the Shortwave website. 

Thanks to Jess Gell and Jonathan Crabb for the photos.

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We're delighted to have been invited by Struer Tracks to create a new artwork as part of this years festival - as part of Shortwave Collective I'll be brining a Living Radio Lab to the shores of Struer at the end of August. Our open-process lab will share be a slice of the joys of being part of Shortwave and playing with radios. 

In compliment, I'm also going to be case studying this excellent festival as part of my PhD research at SONCITIES, University of Oxford to learn more about the curatorial and artistic approaches to Struer's public spaces. This will be my second case studying following an amazing experience at Tsonami Festival in Valparaíso, Chile, last December. 

Follow Struer Tracks, Shortwave Collective and I on socials for festival updates.

Read more about the project on the Biennale website.

I had the pleasure of travelling to Braunschweig to develop a new sound walk for the Braunschweig is listening! festival.www.klangstaetten.de/

Walking Through the Anthropocene was a guided 1.5 hours walk away from the city centre, exploring our entanglement with everything around us. It is also available as a sound map for self-led walks.

'Urban living is now a global condition with more than 50% of humans living in urban environments. We are not only more present across the globe now than when our cities were first built, but we are also entangled with it - 'In this present time of planetary devastation and subsequent ecological awareness of the fact that the end of the world might have already happened, what used to be called nature or culture becomes only an entangled subcomponent in a myriad of geo-bio-socio assemblages.'

As the term the Anthropocene defines, our human living has changed the environment around us, resulting in 'more-than-(but including)-human assemblages like superstorms, acidifying oceans, and antibiotic resistant bacteria’.(i) We humans are in fact nature, we are not separate from it. We are all one, 'because everything we do to the world, gets done to us’. (ii)

Theorist Kate Wright warns 'how tragic and dangerous the cognitive illusion of human exceptionalism can be. We can never disconnect from Earth's ecological community'; 'these neglected connections hang in the air, like exposed faulty wiring, pulsing with a deadly charge'.(iii)

Come for a sound walk through the Anthropocene together.'

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More info coming soon...


i) B. Cincik, T. Torres-Campos. Postcards from the Anthropocene, Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona: 2022. p14.
ii) AM. Kanngieser. “Ecofascism and Nature is Healing”. amkanngieser https://amkanngieser.com/posts/ecofascism-and-nature-is-healing Accessed 27 February 2023
iii) K. Wright. Becoming-with. Environmental Humanities Vol 5, Issue 1, 2014: pp. 277–281

Image credit: Helen Messenger Photography

I'm really pleased to have been invited by CRiSAP to present at the Urban Sound Symposium in Barcelona this April and look forward to sharing my research into this area.

Artistic sonic knowledge of urban spaces
What insights do artistic and curatorial sonic practice share about the urban condition? In this presentation I will present my research exploring urban sound arts festivals / exhibitions as curatorial and artistic methods of urban enquiry and as unique archives of urban sonic knowledge.
I will give a curatorial tour of the online exhibition 'Acts of Air: reshaping the urban sonic', an exhibition that requires audience participation to realise the artworks in urban spaces around the world, as a means to explore and interrogate cities of sound. The project generated a large collection of performance 'traces' (videos, images and texts) and feedback from workshop participants that provide sonic perspectives about the urban experience. I will also present my research into urban sound arts festivals, exploring the curatorial shaping of these investigations and the topics of artistic enquiry addressed by these artists. Through this work I intend to highlight the insight into the urban experience that is identified by these creative sonic practices and the methods through which they are realised.


The three day symposium is centred around themes of urban sound planning and design, urban sound propagation and control, sound technologies, urban soundscape analysis and sound art. Details of the full progam and how to register can be found here:
https://urban-sound-symposium.org/