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Sound art / PerfORmance / Curation / Installation​

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PLURAL RADIO LISTENING
Chapter in Bodies of Sound: becoming a feminist ear
Text in the Listening Biennial web catalogue
Collaborative work with Shortwave Collective
​2024

radio / plural / listening / feminism / air / thickness / DIY / collaborative

Read the text.  |. Buy the book
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LIVING RADIO LAB
​Installation at Struer Tracks Festival
Collaborative work with Shortwave Collective
Aug 2023

radio / feminism / process / listening / connectivity / collaboration

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WALKING THROUGH THE ANTHROPOCENE
Sound walk
June 2023

Entanglement / sound / urban / soundwalk / anthropocene / phantom-sonic-limb

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CONSTELLATIONS OF LISTENING
22 hour sound work
Collaborative work as Shortwave Collective
August 2022

radio / DIY / feminism / electromagnetic spectrum / entangled listening / global listening / connectivity / feminist tech / feminist radio

Read more on Shortwavecollective.org
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​SOUND, ART & URBAN SPACES
Online Symposium
Curated by Lisa Hall for CRiSAP's Un-Earthed Festival 
Guest speakers: Raquel Castro, Fernando Godoy, Hardi Kurda, Gascia Ouzounian & Carsten Seiffarth
Oct 2021

​/ curation / urban / sound / isboa soa / tsonami festival of sound art / space 21 / soncities / recomposing the city / bonn hoeren / portugal / chile / kurdistan iraq / uk / germany


Read about the event
Watch the event (video coming soon)
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​NO SCENT OR COLOUR
Air Pollution sonification and composition on Enviro Bikes
Collaborative work by Lisa Hall & Kaffe Matthews with the Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI)
Sonic Arts Week, Auxiliary Gallery, Summer 2021

​/ air pollution / sonification / cycling / activism / mapping / air as site / pm2.5 / pm10 / particulate matter / invisible / futurism / birds falling from the sky /
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/ collaboration: Kaffe Matthews & the BRI /

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SHORTWAVE COLLECTIVE: OPEN WAVE-RECIEVERS
Site-specific radios
Co-making residency & ongoing work from Shortwave Collective, Summer 2021, broadcast on Radiophrenia Feb 2022 and published in Make Magazine 2022.

/ radio / feminist radio / shortwave / longwave / mediumwave / open wave / collective / buinho creative hub / portugal
​/ collaboration: Shortwave Collective /

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HEARING A POSSIBLE WORLD IN THE CRACKLING OF DRY LEAVES
Performance at Coventry Biennale
By Lisa Hall & Salomé Voegelin
​Nov 2021


/ intractable / journey / imagined / auto-ethnographic / breach / fragments / construction / textures / surfaces / intractable / breach / small hairs / closeness / contact / half building, half dismantling / intractable / confusion / interaction / imaginative / performance of matter together / sound art
/ collaboration: Salomé Voegelin

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​WE ARE JUST ANIMALS, HUMANS, AND MACHINES GETTING ON TOGETHER IN SPECIFIC LIFEWORLDS
Site specific interactive sound work 
Collaboration with Hannah Kemp-Welch
Commissioned by RCA's Curatorial Collective Breath Mark and Furtherfield Gallery
​Summer 2021

/ pathways / wayfinding / species / connectivity / the ground
/ collaboration: Hannah Kemp-Welch /

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Dictionary of Beeps zine - a spectogram image of a fire engine siren with text descriptions
 
100'000hz
Score and performance
Online exhibition Composite by the Numbers
​ Jan 2021

/ covid / data / statistics / pandemic / sonification / 100000  / deaths / hertz /

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​ACTS OF AIR: RESHAPING THE URBAN SONIC
Participatory online exhibition
Curated by Lisa Hall for CRiSAP's Un-Earthed Festival
Launched June 2020, ongoing

​/ urban / sound / performance / participatory / sonic urbanism / relational / scores / sound art / online / city /
/ with artworks by 14 international artists

Visit the exhibition
Watch the launch events
Screen shot of the journal text

HEARING A POSSIBLE WORLD IN THE CRACKLING OF DRY LEAVES
Journal article in Unlikely 
Co-written by Lisa Hall & Salomé Voegelin
Published 2020


/ intractable / journey / imagined / auto-ethnographic / breach / fragments / construction / textures / surfaces / intractable / breach / small hairs / closeness / contact / half building, half dismantling / intractable / confusion / interaction / imaginative / performance of matter together / sound art
/ collaboration: Salomé Voegelin

Read the article


Screen shot of the journal text

ENVIRO BIKE LAUNCH
Air pollution sonic bike works at Lisboa Soa Festival
Collaboration between Lisa Hall, Kaffe Matthews, Federico Visi and the Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI)
September 2020


/ air / pollution / exploration / sonification / puredata / lisbon / cobbled hills / high buildings / pollution traps / gps shaddows / particulate matter / organic matter / development / lab
/ collaboration: 
Kaffe Matthews, Federico Visi and the BRI

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Sound and text installation showing hanging headphones, wood planks and words

​AND IT TASTES LIKE HAIR
Sound & Text installation
Translating Ambiance exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery (AU)
​May 2019

/ nature / urban / entanglement / interbeing / invisible traces / moss / air / textures / surfaces / small hairs / sound art / installation
/ collaboration: Salomé Voegelin /

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Sound and text installation showing hanging headphones, wood planks and words

​FENCETENNA
Live performance
With Shortwave Collective
At Soundcamp ​May 2020

/ radio / foxhole / razor blades / wires / DIY / listening / site / electromagnetic waves / fence / found materials / feminist practice / collaborative making /
/ collaboration: Shortwave Collective /

Watch the performance
Sound and text installation showing hanging headphones, wood planks and words

​RECEIVE-TRANSMIT-RECEIVE
Sound work
With Shortwave Collective
Broadcast on Radophrenia Nov 2020

/ pandemic listening / isolation radio / collaborative making / web SDR /
/ collaboration: Shortwave Collective /


Listen here
Multi channel sound installation - showing a speaker on a stand

VIRTUAL VOICES
Sound installation

Sound Reasons (IN) 2018
Reel Lives (UK) 2019

/ automation / urban / synthetic voices / audio signposting / city / text-to-speech / anti-work theory / sound art / installation
collaboration: Hannah Kemp Welch

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Dictionary of Beeps zine - a spectogram image of a fire engine siren with text descriptions

LISTENING FOR INSTRUCTION
Sound installation
Fringe Arts Bath 2018

/ automation / urban / synthetic voices / audio signposting / city / text-to-speech / anti-work theory / beeps / sound art / 
​/ collaboration: Hannah Kemp Welch

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Sound performance - playing cards, mp3 players and mixers

SONIC SLOTH
Performance
Soundling Festival 2018
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/anti-work theory / chance / cards / games / interruption / idleness / play / relaxation / sound art / peroformance
​ / collaboration: Hannah Kemp Welch / 


More info coming soon.
Audio intervention program - image of a visitor reading the guide

CITY SONIC PLACES
A programme of audio interventions at CRiSAP's CIty Sonic Places symposium
Co-curated by Lisa Hall, Cathy Lane and Peter Cusack
CRiSAP 2018
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/ urban / sound art / interruption / fiction / exploration / urban intervention / city / curation

See event guide & more on crisap.org 
Sound installation at Tate Modern - sofas and plants with people listening

​LAZINESS LOUNGE
Interactive sound installation
Tate Modern 2017

/ anti-work theory / idleness / collectivism / sound art / installation
/ collaboration: Hannah Kemp Welch /

Link coming soon. 

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Interactive sound installation at Tate Modern - image of people interacting with coloured tape and postcards on the wall

SOUND MAP
Interactive sound installation
Tate Modern 2017

​​/ languages / borders / communication / barriers / listening / music / voice / environment / sound art / installation 
​/ collaboration: Hannah Hemp-Welch /

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Sound walk - a group of people walking with sound and speakers walking through a park

WALKING WITH CRICKETS
Audio intervention sound walk
Kochi Muziris Biennale, BBC & more. 2016 - current

​/ walking / personal music player / city / psychogeography / music / space / china / audio trend / historical reenactment / exploration / urban / day-to-day / sound art / sound walk

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Sonic bike performance - group of cyclists with speakers and masks

ANIMALS MARCH
Sonic bike ride / performance
Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI) London​ 2015
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/ herds / stamped  / howl / chirp / growl / roar / climate / protest / sound performance
​/ collaboration: BRI /

More on sonicbikes.net
Sonic bike work - image from the riders view of speakers and road

HABITAT
Sonic bike work
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Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI) London 2015
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/ architecture / public space / wilderness / play / exploration / urban planning / city / built environment / sound art
​/ collaboration: BRI / summer pedalling games /

​More on sonicbikes.net 
Performance image of Lisa Hall and Hannah Kemp Welch performing in a gallery

EITHER / OR
Performance
FirstSite Gallery 2016
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/ Kierkegaard / polarity / chance / disruption / lifestyle / communication / games / sound art / performance 
​/ collaboration: Hannah Kemp-Welch /

More on sound-art-hannah.com
Performance image - model wearing a speaker at the V&A spectacle of the species

​REGRESSES
Mobile audio intervention
V&A Museum (2015)

/ crickets / ipods / mobile sound / music history / china / fashion / body adornment / nature / history / trends / sound art / sound wearables
​/ collaboration: Quoi Alexander /


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Sound installation - metal tube playing sound in festival

PILLARS
Site specific sonic intervention
Profound Sound Festival 2016
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/ architecture / sound led design / instrument / india / sound art / sound installation

​More info coming soon.

​AUDIO ROULETTE
Audio intervention
Soundry, Folkestone Fringe & Online 
2014

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/ online / interactive / ipod / music / mobility / disruption / expectation / self-led / city / urban / détournement / place-making / sound art / audio intervention 

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UNTITLED
Radio based audio intervention
Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013

/ bells / time / disruption / architecture / expectation / listening / hearing / control / sound art / radio

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Sound installation - image of speakers against a building playing sound to the wall

PLAN FOR SPACE 
Sound work & book
George House Gallery 2011 
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/ architecture / urban / london / destruction / use / appropriate / habitation / lures / warnings / proposition / space / place / agency / sound art / 

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Sound installation - metal speaker cone facing a window
PARADISE LURES
Sound installation
Simon Oldfield Gallery 2012
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/ seduction /endless / obsession / impossibility / repetition / ​gibbon / indonesia / jungle / sound art / installation

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Sound art work - a plastic sculpture as resonant object

COS I CLD
Site specific sound installation
National Trust Shalford Mill 2012
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​/ resonant objects / site specific / national trust / urbanisation / loss / construction / space / place / wilderness / collectives / ferguson gang
​/ collaboration: collective#seven /

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Interactive event - screen grab from web cam of a room and bubbles blowing

BUBBLE CAM
Net art collaboration
St Pancras Hotel 2015
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/ internet / control / connectivity / theatre / bubbles / interruption / watching / watched /
​/ collaboration: andie & mike /

More on oneofuswchapel.com

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Sound art work - two metal speaker cones up a tree

TREE PERFORMANCE
Audio intervention
Deal Music Festival 2009
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/ hidden / unheard / soundscapes / real / native / place-making / sound art / sound installation

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Sound art work - headphones with small microphones mounted on the outside

PLAN FOR SPACE II
Installation & sound work
London College of Communication 2011
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/ proposition / self interruption / hearing / listening-in / city / urban / movement / sound art / field recording / place-making /

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Sound art work - headphones on a small stool

​BREATHE WITH ME
Sound installation
Bargehouse OXO Tower 2008
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/ body / phantom limb / feel / sound art / installation

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More information on request
Sound installation - four speaker on the floor of an empty room

A FURTHER DISLOCATION
Sound installation
Dean Hill Park 2007
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/ military / testing / decommissioned / abandoned / remnants / trace / sound art / installation 

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More information on request.
Sound art work - multiple radios spread across a floor outside in Whitstable

EAR OF THE STORM
Sound installation & radio broadcast
Whitstable Biennale, CRS FM, Celestial FM 2007
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/ radio waves / intervention / interruption / weather / storm / possibility / invisibility / sound art / installation / radio

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Blind embossed print showing 'musical braille'

PRINTS & BOOKS
Blind embossed prints & handmade books
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/ braille / embossed / etched / hand bound / wurlitzer / beethoven / booklets / plans / proposals / proposition / space / place / imagination /

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Sound art work - image of an empty room
 UNTITLED
Hidden sound installation
Margate Rocks 2008 

/ hidden / intervention / environment / expectation / decay / space / weather / sound art / sound installation

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Sound art work - window installation of a hanging sound sculpture

SOUND SCORE
Sound installation
Canterbury City 2007

/ score / spatialisation / fragments / listening /

​More information on request

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Sound installation - white room with small line of black speakers

​3.45AM - 5.04AM
Sound installation
University for the Creative Arts 2006
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/ downcast eyes / sun / rise / sound art

​More information on request
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