Professor Cathy Lane

Title

Professor of Sound Arts

College

London College of Communication

Email address

c.lane@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Biography

Cathy Lane is Professor of Sound Arts at University of the Arts London. She established the department of Sound Arts and Design at London College of Communication and now co - directs Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP). She is currently using the Her Noise Archive http://hernoise.org as a catalyst for research into gender in sound arts practice. She has a PhD in electroacoustic music composition from City University, London.

I am interested in how sound relates to the past, our histories, our environment and our collective and individual memories. This informs my current work as a composer, sound artist, lecturer and researcher. Aspects of my creative practice have developed out of these interests and include composition and installation-based work with spoken word, field recordings and archive material. I also write and lecture on these and related subjects as well as collaborating with choreographers, film makers, visual artists and other musicians.

Books include Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice (RGAP, 2008) and, with Angus Carlyle, In the Field (Uniformbooks, 2013), a collection of interviews with eighteen contemporary sound artists who use field recording in their work and On Listening (2013) a collection of commissioned essays about some of the ways in which listening is used in disciplines including anthropology, community activism, bioacoustics, conflict mediation and religious studies, music, ethnomusicology and field recording.

My CD The Hebrides Suite was released by Gruenrekorder in November 2013.

Grants and awards

(Figures indicate amount awarded to UAL)

European Culture Programme, Sounds of Europe, £17,239.24, (2011-2013)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Playing with Words: artistic practices with the spoken word, £15,772.00, (2009-2010)

External Links

Research Outputs

Art/Design item

Lane C. Re-Soundings: Prelude - The Ayahs Home (2018)
Lane C. …the pickle jar is her home… (2017)
Lane C. Sweet Airs, CD release (2016)
Lane C. Preparations for an Imaginary Conflict (2015)
Lane C. The Hebrides Suite (2013)
Lane C. Playing with words: an audio compilation (2010)
Greenhalgh C, Lane C, Butcher R. Aftermath (2006)
Lane C, Greenhalgh C. Aftermath (2005)
Lane C. Hidden Lives (1999)

Article

Lane C. Listening and not listening to voices: interrogating the prejudicial foundations of the sound arts canon (audio paper) (2017)
Lane C. A Manifesto for New Listening (or 20 thoughts about Listening) (2017)
Lane C. Mapping the Outer Hebrides in sound: towards a sonic methodology (2016)
Lane C. Why Not Our Voices? (2016)
Lane C. Listening for the past: A composer's ear-lead approach to exploring island culture past and present in the Outer Hebrides (2016)
Lane C. Voices from the Past: compositional approaches to using recorded speech (2006)
Lane C, Parry N. The Memory Machine: sound and memory at the British Museum (2005)

Book

Lane C. Soundings and re-soundings: a theme and variations (2017)
Lane C, Carlyle A. In the Field: The Art of Field Recording (2013)
Carlyle A, Lane C. On listening (2013)
Lane C, Carlyle A. On listening (working title) (2011)

Book Section

Lane C. Gender, Intimacy, and Voices in Sound Art. Encouragements, Self-portraits, and Shadow Walks (2020)
Lane C. Women as animal, women as alien: reclaiming women’s demonic voices (2018)
Lane C. ‘Women as animal, women as alien: reclaiming women’s demonic voices ’ (2017)
Carlyle A, Lane C, Nash P. Listening To Self and Other (2015)

Conference, Symposium or Workshop item

Lane C. 'A Manifesto for New Listening' (or 'Twenty thoughts about Listening') (2017)
Lane C. Disordering our Listening (2016)
Lane C. Why not our voices? New listenings and new worlds in the sonic imaginary (2016)
Lane C, Ingleton H. White Noise (2016)
Lane C. Music, Composition, Interdisciplinarity: States of Play (2016)
Lane C. Playing with Words: Spoken language as material for composition (2016)
Lane C. BEAM: Exploring maritime Kochi through sound (2015)
Lane C. ‘BEAM and MAOS’: Two approaches to urban listenings (2015)
Lane C. Disordered Listening (2015)
Lane C. Of Narratives that are fractured and those that need to be fractured (2015)
Lane C. ‘Why not our Voices?’ (2013)
Lane C. Sound, sense, babble and speech: approaches to the spoken word in contemporary sound arts practices (2011)
Lane C. Being there: meditations on listening, recording and composing (2011)
Lane C. Babble and Speech : approaches to technology and the spoken word in contemporary sound arts practices (2011)

Other

Lane C, Carlyle A, Ingleton H. Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism (SGFA) (2016)
Lane C. Playing with Words: an online compilation | Various Artists (2010)
Lane C, Parry N. Organised Sound - invited to co-edit an issue of Organised Sound An International Journal of Music Technology, the theme of the issue was ‘Sound, History and Memory’ and title 'Organised Sound' (2006)

Teaching

Current research students

Farnaz Bradley, New Ears for New Noise – How Can Sound Art Probe Signal Density as Pollution in Smart Cities (Joint supervisor)
Jonathan Gilmurray, Ecology and Environmentalism in contemporary Sound Art (Lead supervisor)
Victoria Karlsson, Mapping Experiences of Inner Sounds (Lead supervisor)
Katherine MacBride, Empathic Listening/Radical Listening: learning from feminist and decolonial contemporary arts practices through artistic research. (Joint supervisor)
Louise Marshall, Deep Listening: the Strategic Compositional Practice of Female Experimental Composers post 1945 (Lead supervisor)
Matthew Parker, Vibrating the web: sonospheric studies of media infrastructure ecologies (Lead supervisor)
Irene Anita Revell, Performing Womens Work: what constitutes a ‘feminist performance score’ and how does it extend our understandings of contemporary art practices? (Lead supervisor)
Syma Tariq, Partitioned listening: the role of silence and politics of voice in the making of the subcontinent (Lead supervisor)