Listening with CRiSAP #9 - Curating Sound - Uncurating Sound

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

This episode features a discussion on curating and uncurating sound with Irene Revell, Lisa Hall and Salomé Voegelin, and begins with a conversation on the historical role of curation in CRiSAP and the MA Sound Arts at the London College of Communication, considering a curatorial pedagogy and the fear of being curated.

From there it contemplates the contemporary curator as researcher, as organiser and as medium, and addresses the politics of the curatorial: how rules of funding, governmental expectations and populist demands drive the curatorial towards simple legibility, and how we could curate its resistance.

Recognising listening as a tool toward this aim, this episode ends on a discussion of the figure of the listening curator as a radical and necessary entity that remains largely elusive.

Tracklist

‘During the night the crop will grow (unless the player sleeps)’, by David Mollin and Salomé Voegelin, 2016
‘Acts of Air: Reshaping the urban sonic’, enactments of the score ‘Beyond the Accident of Time’, by Anne Lanzilotti, 2020. Enactments:
‘Listening across the Biennale’ by Hannah Kemp-Welch, 2024