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Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) is a research centre of the University of the Arts London dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice.

 

Our main aim is to extend the development of the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts and to encourage the broadening and deepening of the discursive context in which sound arts is practised.

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Research Feature: Re-Soundings: Prelude - The Ayahs Home

A video installation by Cathy Lane asking - How can the muted be voiced? How can the unheard be listened to? How do memories get lost? Do they just fall through the cracks as stories are told and retold, each time missing out what is not considered important according to those who have the power to record and tell the stories and shape our ideas of our pasts and our histories?
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Member Profile: Iris Garrelfs

Iris Garrelfs is a site-responsive sound artist active across improvised performance, installation and fixed media. Her understanding of place includes people who, through their ideas or presence, participate in creating it. Work establishes experiences, environments for listening and has been compared to artists such as Yoko Ono, Henri Chopin, Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Arvo Part. Pieces and performances have featured internationally, including the Tate Britain, Barbican Centre, Liverpool Biennial, International Computer Music Conference, GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy Of Arts (with Urbania). Several of her works have just been nominated for the British Composer of the Year Award (Sonic Arts category).


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News: Call for Contributions: In The Field 2

Dates: 5 and 6 July 2024 Venue: In person at London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and online Deadline for proposals:  6 February 2024 Notification of acceptance:  15 March 2024 In 2024 we will revisit In The Field, over a decade since the first significant gathering of artists and researchers in 2013, to ask how has and how might the practice of field recording responded in these times?
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