Lisa Hall
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Bio

Lisa Hall is a London based sound artist exploring urban environments using audio interventions and performative actions. Interrupting behaviour and questioning design, these works aim to make space for something new. 

CRiSAP |  Bicrophonic Research Institute | Shortwave Collective

CV

Press & Reviews


  • 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



  • Open Wave-Receivers, by Shortwave Collective, on Radiophrenia Feb 20th at 7pm
  • 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-selected 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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Workshops, Teaching & Talks



  • 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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Conferences, Symposiums, Writing, Interviews


  • 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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Residencies


  • 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, Administrator, 2014-current
  • 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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Education




  • ​MA Sound Arts, London College of Communication, 2010
  • BA Fine Art, First Class Honors, Kent Institute of Art and Design, 2006

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