Sunday 28 September 2025, 7.30pm
CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice, University of the Arts London) celebrates its 20th anniversary with a night of performances, readings and sonic explorations.
Since 2005, CRiSAP has pioneered new approaches to practice and theory by exploring sound and listening in relation to the environment, technology, feminism, activism, conflict, text, voice and education.
For this event, members and friends, past and present, will share compositions, live performance, audio-visual essays and transmission-based interventions. The event also marks the launch of a new booklet created by Hannah Kemp-Welch that celebrates a timeline of CRiSAP projects throughout the years.
Artists: Cathy Lane, Angus Carlyle, Mark Peter Wright & Rory Salter, Annie Goh, Thomas Gardner and Shortwave Collective with Amanda Gutiérrez.
Cathy Lane is an artist, composer and academic. She works primarily in sound, combining oral history, archival recordings, spoken word and environmental recordings to investigate histories, environments, our collective and individual memories and the forces that shape them. She is inspired by places or themes which are rooted in everyday experience and particularly interested in ‘hidden histories’ and historical amnesia and how this can be investigated from a feminist perspective through the medium of composed sound. Books include: Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice (RGAP, 2008) and, with Angus Carlyle, In the Field (Uniformbooks, 2013), On Listening (2013) and Sound Arts Now (2021). Her CD The Hebrides Suite, explores aspects of life, past and present, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, through the medium of composed sound.
Cathy Lane is Emerita Professor of Sound Arts at University of the Arts London.
Angus Carlyle’s work explores environments and atmospheres as embodiments of stress and relief, with listening becoming writing, recordings, photographs and films (and very rarely performances). Carlyle has collaborated with Kozo Hiramatsu and Rupert Cox on projects related to civilian and military overflights since 2011; with Cathy Lane as part of the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) research centre since 2005; with Mark Peter Wright as Decoys since 2015; with Simon James along the Shoreham coastline since 2021; and with Katrin Losleben, Za Barron, Paula Ryggvik Mikalsen and Britta Sweers on Arctic Auditories (2022 – 2025).
Mark Peter Wright is an artist, researcher and writer working at the intersection of sound arts, experimental pedagogy and critical theory. He is the Director of Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP, UAL). His book Listening After Nature is published by Bloomsbury, 2022/23. Wright’s practice investigates relations between humans and animals, geographies and technologies, observers and subjects. Working between the field and lab, site and gallery, he is committed to amplifying forms of power and poetics within the creative use of sound and documentary media.
Rory Salter is a musician, artist and sound technician living in London. He has published albums under various monikers with Index Clean, TEETH, Zoomin' Night, Alter, TakuRoku, MAL and Bison, amongst others. His work is formed through experimentations with acoustic & electronic instruments, faulty & functional technologies, cassette tape, feedback and walking; motivated by exploring relationships to environment, work/labour & cræft; It is rooted in practice and documentation. He has performed and worked with Derek Baron, Phil Julian, Sun Yizhou, Mark Peter Wright, Regan Bowering, Li Song and others.He co-runs the record label and mail-order distribution Infant Tree with artist Ben Victor Waggett and curates a series of concerts in London between Cafe OTO, Dalston and Spanners, Loughborough Junction.
Thomas Gardner is a sound artist and musician, interested in the links between music, field recording and speech. These are explored in the context of post war art-music and the increasingly political understanding of sound art, and lead to the making of work which attempts to mediate the legacy of trauma and search for new forms of representation. The research context for this is the developing field of ‘Audio Testimony’, which links educational work addressing the legacies of conflict with the diverse understandings of audible testimony found in sound art.
Shortwave Collective is an international feminist artist group using the electromagnetic spectrum as artistic material. They deliver workshops nationally and internationally, constructing open radio receivers. Their collective practice includes performances and installations, most recently for Somaphon Festival (DE) and School of Commons (CH). For this performance, Shortwave Collective will collaborate with Mexico-based artist and scholar Amanda Gutiérrez, who examines the intersection of political listening and gender studies through the lens of soundwalking and interdisciplinary radio practices. Her artistic experience has been showcased internationally in art residencies such as FACT (UK), ZKM (DE), TAV (TW), and Bolit Art Center (ES).
Annie Goh is an artist and researcher. Her work, in its numerous forms from sound installation, composition and computer music to writing, performance and social practice, takes a critical approach to contemporary debates in the fields of digital technologies, media arts, generative and computational processes and communication studies, with a particular focus on sound, intersectional feminism, decolonial theory and the politics of knowledge production. She completed her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019 on archaeoacoustics and sonic knowledge production. She co-curated the discourse program of CTM Festival Berlin 2013-2016 and is co-founder of the Sonic Cyberfeminisms project since 2015 with Dr Marie Thompson.
https://anniegoh.net/
