CRiSAP research

For over 20 years Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) has been at the forefront of sound arts practice and research. Our work embodies a unique and wide-reaching approach that crosses disciplines. We are committed to practice-based and theoretical contributions to knowledge.

We disseminate and exchange knowledge via international symposia, publications, collaboration and partnership initiatives. CRiSAP mobilises expertise, inside and outside of London College of Communication (LCC). Our vibrant and diverse research feeds into the teaching and curriculum of the Sound and Music department at LCC.

Explore our themes

Sound and environment

Examining the relationship between sound and the environment. Highlights include:

Resonant Dialogues: explores sonic perspectives on conflict and trauma, through international exhibitions and events.
Wild Energies: Live Materials: online conference presenting research and artistic responses to the work of composer and sound artist Annea Lockwood.
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice: publication examining field recording’s political and ecological connections.

Find more sound and environment research works in UAL's repository and project data in Figshare.

Two people standing in a timber yard next to a large digger. One of them is holding a microphone. In the background are mountains. — **Angus Carlyle, Centre for Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice, London College of Communication, UAL**

Sonic activism

Exploring sound as a medium, method and practice for activism, advocacy and justice. Highlights include:

Hospital project on noise, sound and sleep (HPNoSS): cross-disciplinary project examining in hospital in relation to sleep, treatment and recovery.
Sound, Gender, Feminism and Activism 2019 Tokyo: research event investigating gender and activism through sonic practice and discourse.
Her Noise: Feminisms and the Sonic: event series exploring feminist discourse in sound and music via the archive.

Find more sonic activism research works in UAL's repository and project data in Figshare.

Three people jumping over a metal fence in an urban environment. A line of more people are following them. — **Sonic Activism, Centre for Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice, London College of Communication, UAL**

Sonic knowledge and pedagogies

Investigating the potential of sound in education and knowledge-making. Highlights include:

Sounding Knowledge Network: AHRC-funded project establishing sonic pedagogy within education through sensory and embodied experiences.
On Listening: a unique collection of 40 multi-disciplinary perspectives that draw on listening as a critical mode for research and practice.
Points of Listening: event series exploring sound and listening as an investigative lens and artistic focus for collective, communal and participatory practices.

Find more sonic knowledge and pedagogies research works in UAL's repository and project data in Figshare.

Around 20 people sat in a semi-circle in front of four desks in a classroom setting. They are looking at a Zoom powerpoint presentation projected onto the wall. The slide reads, “Sound Knowledge Network”. — **Sounding Knowledge Network, Centre for Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice, London College of Communication, UAL**

Voice, composition and text

Composing voice, sound and text. Highlights include:

Sound in Words - Words in Sound: works that operate in the intersections of the spoken word and electroacoustic media.
Playing with Words: book anthology exploring the spoken word in artistic practice
Star Shaped Biscuit: a sound art opera for 3 singers, 5 multi-instrumentalists and digital sound composition.

Find more voice, composition and text research works in UAL's repository and project data in Figshare.

The book cover of Cathy Lane’s ‘Playing with Words’. It features a close-up image of print blocks spelling out the title. — **Woodblock letters, London College of Communication, UAL**

Performance, art and technology

Critical experiments in sound, aesthetics and media cultures. Highlights include:

Large Objects Moving Air (LOMA): conference exploring the media ecologies of air from the microscale to the macroscale.
The Banality of Affect: an audiovisual installation and real-time net-art project which problematizes the commodification of emotions via new media.
INTIMAL – Interfaces for Relational Listening: body, telematics, memory, migration: developing a novel “embodied system” for relational listening.

Find more performance, art and technology research works in UAL's repository and project data in Figshare.

A person kneeling at the top of a small hill and looking over a city landscape. They are wearing headphones and have various pieces of audio equipment placed around them. — **Shortwave Collective, Centre for Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice, London College of Communication, UAL**

Sound, history and memory

Uncovering sonic narratives, archives and histories. Highlights include:

The Hebrides Suite: sonic research of the Outer Hebrides that traces past lives and events onto the present.
Audio Testimonies: symposium considering the place of audio testimony in sound art practice and discourse.
Connecting Columns: exhibition of sound artworks and research exploring the possibilities of refocusing place and memory.

Find more sound, history and memory research works in UAL's repository and project data in Figshare.

CRiSAP research

Explore our themes

Sound and environment

Sonic activism

Sonic knowledge and pedagogies

Voice, composition and text

Performance, art and technology

Sound, history and memory

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