Listening with CRiSAP #17 - In the Field 2

CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice, UAL) celebrates its 20th anniversary with 20 unique episodes for Resonance Extra.

Since 2005, CRiSAP has pioneered new approaches to practice and theory by exploring sound and listening in relation to the environment, gender, technology, feminism, activism, conflict, text, pedagogy and voice. For Resonance Extra, CRiSAP members and friends, past and present, host a range of discussions and soundworks that cover key themes and areas of research across art, performance, symposia, publishing, curation, archives, education and more.

This episode reflects on In the Field 2, a 3-day international symposium (LCC, 2024) that explored how the practice of field recording has changed since the first In the Field conference (British Library, 2013), and amidst the escalating ecological, political, social and financial challenges of the past decade.

The episode begins by playing back the keynote opening recording from In the Field 2. This was an experimental and collaborative start to the conference that weaved the organisers voices and sounds. Following this excerpt the contributors discuss key moments from In the Field 2 and speculate on the possibility for an In the Field 3.

Contributors: Angus Carlyle, Kate Carr, Peter Cusack, Cathy Lane, Mark Peter Wright.