Bio & CV

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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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