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Lisa Hall is a sound artist and researcher working across London and Brighton, 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.

Working with The Bicrophonic Research Institute since 2008, Lisa contributes to sonic cycling projects and is currently collaborating on air pollution sonification works. With international feminist radio group, Shortwave Collective, who formed remotely during the pandemic, Lisa regularly collaborates on creative experimentation and learnings around radio practice. Lisa has worked at CRiSAP, Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice research centre at University of the Arts London since 2014 - supporting the research activities of the centre, producing numerous international conferences and creative events (including Wild Energies conference, Un-Earthed Festival, Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism (SGFA) 2016 conference, SGFA 2014 conference, SGFA Zine), (co)leading a series of urban sound projects (Acts of Air exhibition, Sound, Art & Urban Spaces symposium, City Sonic Places artworks) and supporting AHRC research projects Sounding Knowledge, Listening Across Disciplines and Sound Matters.

Lisa has presented work with many arts organisations and 
at numerous conferences and in academic journals and is regualrly awarded London College of Communication Research Funds. Having recently completed a year with Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice funding, Lisa is now working on a PhD in urban sound practices at University of Oxford as part of the SONCITIES research project. 

SONCITITES   |  University of Oxford   |  CRiSAP |  Bicrophonic Research Institute | Shortwave Collective

CV

Education



  • PhD, University of Oxford, 2022 - 2025/26
  • ​MA Sound Arts, London College of Communication, 2010
  • BA Fine Art, First Class Honors, Kent Institute of Art and Design, 2006


Press, Reviews, features


  • Phantom Power Podcast interview with Shortwave Collective, Online, October 2022
  • The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, Listening and Polyphony. Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art, 2022
  • Sound Studies, Acts of air: reshaping the urban sonic, 2021
  • Cities & Health, When London goes quiet, it’s time for the artists to sound out the city, 2021
  • Neural Magazine, Environmental Bike, Pollution Sound, 2020
  • Foreground Magazine, Sound in the City: Translating Ambiance, 2019
  • BBC Radio 4, Natural Histories: Cricket, Nov 2016. More.
  • Environmental Bike Lab at Lisboa Soa Festival 2020:  SIC Edição de Manha SIC Noticias and “Primeiro Jornal” (PT), Time Out, Lisboa Soa (PT),  Antena1, National Broadcast radio station (PT) , TSF Bikes (PT) 2020,  Antena 3, no Dominio Publico, and  Biculture (EN)
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Exhibitions, Live


  • Living Radio Lab, Struer Tracks Festival, Denmark, August 2023
  • Walking through the Anthropocene, sound walk, Braunschweig, June 2023
  • Shortwave Collective in the Art of Noises, Modern Art Oxford, May 2023
  • How to make an Open Wave Receiver, broadcast Melodic Distraction, March 2022
  • Constellations of Listening, Tsonami Festival, Chile, Dec 2022
  • Pixel Festival, with Shortwave Collective, Bergen, Norway, Nov 2022
  • How to make an Open Wave Receiver, broadcast on RadioArt106 and Reboot FM,  Oct 2022
  • Constellations of Listening, Resonance FM, (weekly broadcasts) Oct - April 2022
  • Constellations of Listening, 22 hour radio broadcast with Shortwave Collective, Radio Art Zone, Luxembourg, Aug 2022
  • Virtual Voices, with Hannah Kemp-Welch, FILE Festival, Hypersonica, São Paulo, 2022
  • Open Wave Receiver How-To guide, audio work on Movement Radio, March 2022
  • Virtual Voices with Hannah Kemp-Welch and Receive-Transmit-Recieve with Shortwave Collective - sound works played by RAD Performance, International Women's day march in Vienna, March 2022
  • Open Wave-Receivers, by Shortwave Collective, on Radiophrenia Feb 20th at 7pm 2022
  • Hearing a possible world in the crackling of dry leaves, performance with Salomé Voegelin at Coventry Biennial. 4 Nov 2021
  • No scent or colour, sonification and composition of real-time air pollution on Enviro Bikes, collaboration with Kaffe Matthews and The Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI), Middlesbrough Arts Weekender, Sept 30 - Oct 3 2021
  • We are just ..., site-specific sound work, collaboration with Hannah Kemp-Welch, curated by Breathmark, exhibited in the People's Park Plinth at Furtherfield Gallery, London, May 2021 - Jan 2022
  • Open Wave-Receivers, with Shortwave Collective, Buinho Creative Hub, Portugal, September 2021
  • No scent or colour, sonification and composition of real-time air pollution on Enviro Bikes, collaboration with Kaffe Matthews and The Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI), Sonic Arts Week, Auxiliary Gallery, July 2021
  • Fencetenna Performance with Shortwave Collective, Soundcamp, May 2021
  • 100'000hz, covid data response in score and performance, in Composite by Numbers online exhibition, Feb 2021 - ongoing
  • Environmental Sonic Bike Lab, collaborative developmental lab for Enviro Biking air pollution signification, with the Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI) at Lisboa Soa Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept 2020
  • Receive-Transmit-Receive, with Shortwave Radio Collective and Hannah Kemp-Welch, Radiophrenia, Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nov 2020
  • And it tastes like Hair, at Translating Ambiance, collaboration with Salomé Voegelin. Melbourne, Australia. Sept 2019
  • Virtual Voices, at  Reel Lives, concert, CRiSAP, UK, 30 January 2019
  • Walking with Crickets, in LIVE* from CICADA, CICADA Gallery, Utah, USA, April 2019
  • Virtual Voices and Sound Map in Radiophrenia, Radio - Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, May 2019
  • Virtual Voices (Multi channel edit), in Sound Reasons Festival, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi, India, 26 Oct - 21 Nov 2018
  • Untitled Score, in Unfinished Descriptions, Hundred Years Gallery, London, September 2018
  • Sonic Sloth, at Soundling Festival, London, 11 March 2018
  • Listening for Instruction, in It Sounds Devicive! , Bath, 25 May - 10 June 2018
  • Laziness Lounge, at Uniqlo Tate Late, Tate Modern, 27 Oct 2017
  • Sound Map, at Uniqlo Tate Late - International, Tate Modern, 30 June 2017
  • Walking with Crickets, at SoundCamp, London, 6 & 7 May 2017
  • Walking with Crickets, at Profound Sound, Folkestone, Feb 2017
  • Walking with Crickets (installation edit), at Connecting Columns, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, group CRiSAP exhibition in conjunction with Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, March 2017
  • Walking with Crickets, on Animal Sounds, Resonance FM, Nov 2016.
  • Walking with Crickets, on Natural Histories: Cricket, BBC Radio 4, Nov 2016. More.
  • Either / Or, Collaborative performance with Hannah Kemp-Welch, FirstSite Gallery, May 2016
  • Walking with Crickets, on Framework Radio,  by Richard Bentley, May 2016. More.
  • Walking with Crickets,  at Points of Listening, London College of Communication & CRiSAP, April 2016
  • Pillars, at Profound Sound, Folkestone, Feb 2016.
  • Animals March, The Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI), London, Dec 2015
  • Habitat, at The Summer Pedalling Games, The Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI), London Fields, 2015
  • Regresses, at Spectacle of the Species, V&A Museum, London, 2015
  • Untitled performances at Christian Marclay, Fluxus scores, White Cube Gallery, London, 2015
  • Bubblecam London, at House on Haunted Hill, One of Us, St Pancras Hotel clock tower, London, 2015
  • Bubblecam at Homespun, Duvet Days, London, 2015
  • Musical Braille, at We Built This City, London, 2015
  • Musical Braille, at Capsule, Embassy Tea Rooms, London, 2015
  • Audio Roulette, Folkestone Triennial, Curated Fringe, Folkestone, 2014
  • Audio Roulette,  in Journey, Arebyte Gallery, London, 2014
  • Audio Roulette, with Soundry, 2014
  • Untitled, in Radio Civic, Lisbon Architecture Triennale Close, Closer, Lisbon, 2013
  • Plan for Space II, at Profound Sound, The Forum, Kent, 2013
  • Musical Braille, in All in One, Chelsea College of Arts, London, 2013
  • Plan for Space II (performance), in End of the World, Cafe Oto, London, 2012
  • Paradise Lures, in Seduction, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2012
  • Cos i cld, in The Furguson Gang, National Trust Shalford Mill, (collaboration with Collective#), Surrey, 2012
  • Plan for Space, in The Quiet and the Still, George house Gallery, Kent, 2011
  • Framework Afield, Resonance FM and Framework Radio, 2011
  • Silent Awkwardstra (Live), at Speculum Artium, Slovenia, 2011
  • Silent Awkwardstra, in Sandbox, Whitechapel galley, London, 2011
  • Plan for Space, in Guises of Listening, London College of Communication, London, 2010
  • Plan for Space, in Trunk Calls, London College of Communication, London, 2010
  • Plan for Space, in Space and Significance, George House Gallery, Folkestone, Kent, 2010
  • Silent Awkwardstra (Live), atBrixton Electric, London, 2010
  • Silent Awkwardstra (Live), at Selfridges and Wolf & Badger, London, 2010
  • Silent Awkwardstra (Live), at, Big Chill Festival, Herefordshire, 2010
  • Musical Braille, at Art Car Boot Fair, Brick Lane, London, 2010
  • Untitled, in AlTurnertive, Crate Space, Margate, Kent, 2010
  • Hoc Est Corpus, at AlTurnertive, Crate Space, Margate, Kent, 2009
  • Tree Performance, at Deal Pier Sounds, Folkestone Fringe & Deal Music Festival, Deal, Kent, 2009
  • Breathe with me & Heat Projection, in Electric Blue, Bargehouse OXO Tower, London 2009
  • Musical Braille, at 15 Minute Factory, Rag factory, London, 2009
  • Musical Braille, at Art Car Boot Fair, Brick Lane, London. 2009
  • Marvello Project, Folkestone Triennial, sound piece in Kaffe Matthew's Sonic Bikes work, Kent, 2008
  • Untitled, in Margate Rocks, Various venues, Margate, Kent, 2008
  • Untitled, at University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, Kent, 2008
  • Ear of the Storm, Whitstable Biennale, Kent, 2007
  • 11 seconds, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, 2007
  • Sound Score, in Hugging for the English, Crate Space, Margate, Kent, 2007
  • Sound Score, Canterbury city centre, Kent, 2007
  • Ear of the Storm, Celestial Radio, Whitstable Biennale, Kent, 2007
  • Ear of the Storm, CSR Radio, Radio, 2007
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Curation


  • Sound, Art & Urban Spaces, online symposium, CRiSAP, October 2022
  • Acts of Air: Reshaping the Urban Sonic, online exhibition and Launch events, CRiSAP's Un-Earthed Festival, July 2020 and ongoing.
  • City Sonic Places: experiencing the urban soundscape, audio interventions, co-curated with Cathy Lane & Peter Cusack, Elephant & Castle, London, 2 Feb 2018
  • Connecting Columns, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, co-curated with Cathy Lane, CRiSAP & Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, March 2017
  • The Summer Pedalling Games, Co-curated with Kaffe Matthews & The Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI), London Fields, 2015
  • Seduction, Co-curated with Francesca Oldfield, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2012
  • Ear of the Storm, Whitstable Biennale, Celestial Radio & CSR Radio, Radio, 2007
  • Hugging for the English, Co-curated, Crate Space, Margate, Kent, 2007​
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Conferences, Symposiums, Writing


  • Keynote lecture at A Pluriversal Volume symposium, University of the Arts London, 1 Dec 2023
  • Radio Art Zone, publication, 2023
  • Plural Radio Listening, text, Listening Biennial, Shortwave Collective, 2023
  • Artistic Sonic Knowledge of Urban Spaces, presentation at Urban Sound Symposium, Barcelona, April 2023
  • 'Participatory sonic exchanges' presentation, opening panel, International media music and sound arts network in education (IMMSANE) conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, Sept 2022
  • How To: Open Wave-Receivers by Shortwave Collective, Make Magazine, coming soon in 2022
  • Interviewed for On Mediating Space, Sound and Experience: Interviews with situated sound art practitioners, Organized Sound journal, published 9 Feb 2022
  • Sound, Art & Urban Spaces, curation of online symposium, CRiSAP, October 2022​
  • Hearing a Possible World in the Crackling of Dry Leaves (Live), at Into the Wild, Conference, Royal Institution of Great Britain, Feb 2021
  • Review in Sound Studies journal, Acts of air: reshaping the urban sonic, 2021
  • Interview and review in Cities & Health journal, When London goes quiet, it’s time for the artists to sound out the city, 2021
  • 'Hearing a Possible World in the Crackling of Dry Leaves' ,co-written with Salomé Voegelin, Journal Article in Unlikely, issue 6,  2020​
  • Walking with Crickets, at Sound + Environment conference, University of Hull, 29 June – 2 July 2017
  • Closing panel chair at City Sonic Places symposium, CRiSAP, 2018
  • Panel chair at Large Objects Moving Air conference, CRiSAP, 2018
  • Walking with Crickets, at Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices symposium at Walled City Music Festival, Derry, 31 May 2017
  • Walking with Crickets (presentation), at LCC Spring Research Symposium, London College of Communication, March 2017
  • Keynote talk, at Daily Concerns Research Symposium, London College of Communication & Dilston Grove, Dec 2016. More.
  • Walking with Crickets, at Sound Traces Moves conference, Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (Society for Dance Research), Salzburg, Austria, Nov 2016
  • Walking with Crickets, at Temporary Autonomous Zones, Nerve Centre, ISSTA, Derry, Sept 2016. More.
  • Sonic Bike (presentation), at Digital Revolution conference Culture NUM, Bicrophonics Presentation, Festival Aix en Provence, July 2016.
  • Habitat (presentation), at Sound Passages: passaggi di suono', Symposium, presentation, The Architecture University of Venice (IUAV) & CRiSAP, Venice, 2015
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Workshops, Teaching, Talks


  • Lecturer, (Final Major Project) MA Sound Arts, London College of Communication, Autumn Term 23/24
  • Urban Radio Listening, with Shortwave Collective, University of Oxford, May 2023
  • Lecturer, The Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS), BA Sound Arts, London College of Communication, Spring Term 22/23
  • Open Wave Receiver workshop with SONCITIES and University of Oxford MA Music and Fine Art students, Apr 2023
  • Open Wave Receiver workshop with Shortwave Collective, with Sound Arts BA & MA students at London College of Communication, Mar 2022
  • Sound Arts Lectures, Shortwave Collective, CRiSAP & London College of Communication, London Dec 2022
  • Open Wave Receiver workshop with Shortwave Collective, at Listening at the Library, Liverpool, Sept 2022
  • Phantom Power Podcast - interview with Shortwave Collective, Online, October 2022
  • Listening Academy, Shortwave Collective presentation and event attendee, London August 2022 
  • Shortwave Collective at Sono-(soro)rities, Materia Labo, Montreal, Canada, Sept 2022
  • Building DIY Radios, with Shortwave Collective at Shefton Libraries, Liverpool, Sept 2022
  • Shortwave Collective at Listening Academy, Iklectik, London, Sept 2022
  • Grounded Listening workshop, with Shortwave Collective, MA Sound Arts, London College of Communication, July 2022
  • Radio building workshop, with Shortwave Collective, Soundcamp, April 2022
  • Keynote talk at Festive Labour, LCC MA Sound Arts Research Symposium, Dec 2021
  • Air pollution sonification talk with As If Radio at COP26, November 2021
  • DIY Radio Workshop, with Shortwave Collective, Buinho Creative Hub, Portugal, September 2021
  • Acts of Air scores workshop, Rewire Festival, Netherlands, May 2021
  • Acts of Air scores workshop, Sustainable Sound, CESSA, Concordia University’s Electroacoustic Studies Student Association, Canada, April 2021
  • Visiting Lecturer & Acts of Air scores workshop, MA Sound Arts, Leeds Beckett University, March 2021
  • Artist Workshop: scores & machine listening, TOMA, Southend on Sea, Feb 2021
  • Acts of Air scores workshop, Sound Making Space research hub, Bartlett School of Architecture, March 2021
  • Acts of Air scores workshop, Sound Practice Research Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London, Dec 2020
  • Visiting Lecturer & Acts of Air scores workshop, MA Sound Arts, London College of Communication, Oct 2020
  • Artist talk - interview with Philip Samartzis, School of Fine Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia, Sept 2020
  • Artist talk, CAST OUT LOUD: Rupture, Vibration And Residue - Contemporary Sound Art Theory And Practice, RMIT University - CAST Research Group, Melbourne, Australia, 15 May 2029
  • Sound Art Workshop, V&A Museum, 2 & 3 June 2017
  • Dictionary of Beeps Workshop, at Sound Reasons Festival, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi, India, 15 November 2018
  • Herstories: Rewriting Music History Edit-a-thon, Somerset House, with Cathy Lane, 2017
  • Sound Art workshop, London College of Communication, July & August 2017
  • Artist talk, Royal College of Art, Nov 2016
  • Audio Interventions, workshop, V&A Museum, London, Oct 2016. More.
  • Rubens: Decrypted, Royal Academy, London, 2015
  • Artist talk, University fo the Creative Arts Kent, 2008
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Residencies


  • Braunschweig is listening! for the development of  Walking Through the Anthropocene, June 2023
  • Knowledge Exchange / Research trip to Forum ZFD, Prishtina, Kosovo with CRiSAP, July 2022
  • Arts Council Developing your Creative Practice residency, Merz Gallery, Scotland, June 2022
  • Foxhole radio residency with Shortwave Radio at Buinho Creative Hub, Portugal, September 2021
  • Artist Residency, with the Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI), Auxiliary Gallery, Middlesbrough. Feb 2020 & June 2021
  • Development Lab at Lisboa Soa Festival, with the Bicrophonic Research Institude (BRI), Sept 2020
  • Artist Residency, Indian Sonic Research Organisation (ISRO), Bangalore, India, December 2018
  • Artist Residency, University of the Creative Arts Kent, 2008
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Selected Employment


  • ​CRiSAP ​Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice, Centre Manager, 2014-current
  • Sounding Knowledge Network Coordinator, 2022-2023
  • Listening Across Disciplines Administrator, 2016-17
  • Bicrophonic Research Institute, Artist, Event Support & Communications, 2014-current
  • Artscom, Web & Analytics Coordination 2014-2018
  • Chelsea College of Arts, Web Coordination & Marketing, 2012-2014

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Research Project Production / Coordination


  • Uncurating Sound book launch, Salomé Voegelin, CRiSAP, March 2023
  • Sounding Knowledge Network, AHRC research project, CRiSAP, led by Salomé Voegelin, 2022-2023
  • Listening After Nature Book Launch, Mark Peter Wright, CRiSAP, June 2022
  • Un-Earthed Festival Sound Walks and residencies with Peter Cusack and Katrinem, May 2022
  • Wild Energies: Live Materials, 3 day conference, CRiSAP, April 2022
  • Live Audio Streaming Workshop, Soundcamp & CRiSAP, March 2022
  • Sound, Art & Urban Spaces, symposium, CRiSAP, Oct 2021
  • City Sonic Places Conference, CRiSAP, 2018
  • Listening Across Disciplines, AHRC research project, CRiSAP, Led by Salomé Voegelin, 2016-2017
  • White Noise, Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism conference, CRiSAP 2016 
  • Sound Matters, a creative framework, JISC funded researcg project, CRiSAP, Led by Ximena Alarcon and Cathy Lane, 2015-2016
  • Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism conference, CRiSAP, 2014
  • Plus many others ...
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