Listening with CRiSAP #1 - Pre-Histories and Starting Points

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 first episode discusses the creation of the research centre and its early years in terms of the people who were involved, the institutional home that supported (and hindered!) us, our individual and collective creative and scholarly activities and our connections to the wider field. Excerpts are included of a performance of Unknown Devices: The Laptop Orchestra (2009), of Peter Cusack’s Pigeon Whistles in the Sky (2007) and John Wynne’s Hearing Voices (2005).

Contributors: Angus Carlyle, Cathy Lane & Mark Peter Wright.