In Sound Arts Now, Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle explore
contemporary artistic practices and theories, and what contributes to or hinders artistic and career develop-
ment. This is conducted through a series of interviews with artists and curators, putting the often-unheard
voice of the maker at the centre of the discourse.
There is a conscious shift of reference away from the “white men from the global north” who have domi-
nated the canon during the decades of the discipline’s emergence and establishment. The twenty interviews
focus on contemporary and future ideas and practices
with artists at early or mid-points in their working lives, whose backgrounds, geographical locations and experi-
ences are as wide-ranging as their approaches and ideas.

Adam Basanta, AM Kanngieser, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, 
Caroline Devine, Elsa M’bala, Evan Ifekoya, Hanna Tuulikki,
 Hong-Kai Wang, Jau-Lan Guo, Jennifer Walshe, Khaled Kaddal,
 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lina Lapelyte, Maria Chavez, Mark
 Peter Wright, Mikel R. Nieto, Mikhail Karikis, Samson Young,
 Yang Yeung, Yashas Shetty.


While not claiming to be a definitive survey, Sound Arts 
Now broadens and destabilises what we have come to
understand as sound arts, offering new and different
 pathways, frames of reference, and modes of thinking.