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Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series | Li Yilei Thursday 21 May 2.30pm - 4.30pm GMT This week we continue our Summer Term Programme of Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series presented by LCC Sound Arts and CRiSAP Convened by @annie_g0h with guest curation from @ecka_mordecai and @rorysalter__ with support from the Course Support Admin and Sound Arts Tech teams. 16 April – 28 May 2026 Thursdays 2.30pm - 4.30pm GMT Mark Wagner • Sue Lynch • Nisha Ramayya • (RP BOO) Kavain Wayne Space with Seymour Wright • Moreskinsound • Li Yilei • Ash Reid • ..................................................................... UAL students and staff: In person, Lecture Theatre B, London College of Communication External Guests: via livestream. Register on Eventbrite. Link in bio and at https://bit.ly/SAGLS_Summer26 .................................................................... Li Yilei is a Chinese-born, London-based artist and composer whose work moves through tacit listening, perceptual thresholds, and the quiet tensions between presence and disappearance. Guided by a quietly mystic approach to sensing, Li treats sound as a porous field of attunement where intuition, resonance, and the barely perceptible begin to speak. Li’s multi-media practice attends to silence, absence, and non-verbal states as active agents that shape perception as much as the audible. Unfolding through restrained gestures and spectral drift, Li’s compositions often incorporate instruments, objects, spanning tapes, theremins, ethnic instruments, field recordings, self-built devices, and organic materials. Fragments, objects, and transient sites enter the work as momentary anchors within shifting terrains, creating spaces where attention deepens, thresholds blur, and sound becomes a mode of attunement. ----------- IG: @li_yi_lei_ Photo Credit: @matthewphilliplong @lccsoundarts @lcclondon @unioftheartslondon

Reposted from CRiSAP member Annie Goh @annie_g0h Keynote by Annie Goh ‘Figuring and re-figuring echo: sonic knowledge production, decoloniality and practice’ at The Decolonial Network’s inaugural annual assembly on 15 & 16 May at Goldsmiths. @decolonial_network 📅 Saturday 16 May, 10:15 – 11:15 📍 Goldsmiths "In this keynote lecture, I draw on my research into archaeoacoustics and sonic knowledge production as well as my own artistic practice. Drawing from fieldwork and presenting audio recordings, I explicate the figure of echo as a material-semiotic figuration of sonic knowledge production. I will outline how echo has been shaped by coloniality, whiteness and cisheteropatriarchy and on the basis of its limitations, I propose to explore echo as a feminist and decolonial sonic figuration. In closing, I turn to my sound installation ‘Myths of Echo’ as an example of how creative practice might open up space for alternative ways of knowing and doing." ‍Dr 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 is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in BA (Hons) Sound Arts at LCC, University of Arts London and where she is also a member of Creative Research In Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP). She completed her CHASE/AHRC-funded PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019 on archaeoacoustics and sonic knowledge production, where she was also a Stuart Hall Foundation PhD Fellow. ‘Sonic Cyberfeminisms’ (Goldsmiths Press) co-authored with Dr Marie Thompson will be published in 2027, and ‘Echoes of Elsewhere (Bloomsbury Academic) by Goh is due for 2028.

CRiSAP Director Mark Peter Wright is an invited speaker at the forthcoming Centre for Research Architecture @cra_goldsmiths roundtable on 'Critical Listening' (Goldsmiths, University of London) on 14th and 15th May 2026. The Centre for Research Architecture’s overall pedagogical approach is conceived as a 'roundtable' where the encounter of learning is structured non-hierarchically 'around' ideas and research that are literally put forward onto the table for discussion. During the autumn, winter, and spring terms, two-day-long seminars are organised as Roundtable discussions of PhD research projects. Each of these Roundtables is supplemented by invited guests who bring relevant scholarly knowledge or practices into the Centre. Student and guest presentations, along with assigned readings, provide the common conceptual ground for discussion of work and ideas at the CRA. Image credit: from Mark Peter Wright's book 'Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)

• Reposted from CRiSAP member @annie_g0h • Talk between Stephen Cornford & Annie Goh as part of Archaeology–Heritage–Art Research Network and West Dean College. 📅 Wednesday 13 May, 17:00 – 18:30 📍 Online AHA X WEST DEAN is a collaborative programme between the Archaeology–Heritage–Art Research Network and West Dean College. This series of online talks brings together artists, academics, and writers whose work engages with, and at times subverts, the practices, politics, and theories of archaeology, critical heritage studies, contemporary art, and craft. @aha_network

Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series | Moreskinsound Thursday 14 May 2.30pm - 4.30pm GMT This week we continue our Summer Term Programme of Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series presented by LCC Sound Arts and CRiSAP Convened by @annie_g0h with guest curation from @ecka_mordecai and @rorysalter__ with support from the Course Support Admin and Sound Arts Tech teams. 16 April – 28 May 2026 Thursdays 2.30pm - 4.30pm GMT Mark Wagner • Sue Lynch • Nisha Ramayya • (RP BOO) Kavain Wayne Space with Seymour Wright • Moreskinsound • Li Yilei • Ash Reid • ..................................................................... UAL students and staff: In person, Lecture Theatre B, London College of Communication External Guests: via livestream. Register on Eventbrite. Link in bio and at https://bit.ly/SAGLS_Summer26 .................................................................... Moreskinsound is a sound and movement collaboration between Ania Psenitsnikova and David Toop. They focus on the liminality of space, stillness, slowness and silence, approached through improvisation, materials and the nature of space. Their work together encompasses public performance (Japan, Prague, Basel, Tartu, Sydney, Norway, London, etc), photography, video, texts and documented non-public events described as inactions (in Cornwall, Queensland, Norway, Thailand, Estonia). Ania Psenitsnikova is a visual and performance artist and curator. Born in Estonia, she has travelled and learned butoh dance with Flavia Ghisalberti, Moeno Wakamatsu, Masaki Iwana and Daisuke Yoshimoto. Studying music independently since 1996, she has worked as an aerial dance artist since 2011 and bodywork therapist since 2015. David Toop is a musician, writer and curator. Artists he has performed with include Ryuichi Sakamoto, Thurston Moore, Sidsel Endresen, Akio Suzuki and Rie Nakajima, along with butoh dancers Mitsutaka Ishii and Min Tanaka. His books include Ocean of Sound, Into the Maelstrom and Sinister Resonance ----------- Website: IG: @moreskinsound Photo Credit: Luke Fowler @lcclondon @unioftheartslondon @lccsoundarts

Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series | Kavain Wayne Space (RP BOO) In conversation with Seymour Wright Thursday 07 May2.30pm - 4.30pm GMT This week we continue our Summer Term Programme of Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series presented by LCC Sound Arts and CRiSAP Convened by @annie_g0h with guest curation from @ecka_mordecai and @rorysalter__ with support from the Course Support Admin and Sound Arts Tech teams. 16 April – 28 May 2026 Thursdays 2.30pm - 4.30pm GMT Mark Wagner • Sue Lynch • Nisha Ramayya • (RP BOO) Kavain Wayne Space with Seymour Wright• Li Yilei • Ash Reid • ..................................................................... UAL students and staff: In person, Lecture Theatre B, London College of Communication External Guests: via livestream. Register on Eventbrite. Link in bio and at https://bit.ly/SAGLS_Summer26 .................................................................... Kavain Space a.k.a. RP Boo is a man who is revered and respected amongst the dance music cognoscenti. He’s cited as one of the originators of Footwork, the fast, repetitive, rhythmically syncopated music & dance style that’s a grandchild of Chicago house and which has been brought to the wider world via releases from Planet Mu and others, alongside internet archaeology from fans, experts and enthusiasts. Seymour Wright is a saxophonist living in London. His work is about the creative, situated friction of learning, ideas, people, and the saxophone – music, history and technique – actual and potential. ----------- Website: https://planet.mu/artists/rp-boo/ / @lccsoundarts @unioftheartslondon @lcclondon

CRiSAP Presents: Electromagnetic Fields: Artistic Research and Radio Waves 🔊Radio Symposium FM and online | 3pm-11pm (GMT+1) Tuesday 9th June 2026 🔊 Curated by artist-researchers Hannah Kemp-Welch @soundarthannah , Lia Mazzari @liamazzari and Anna Clock @anna_clock_ Featuring: Anna Clock @anna_clock_ // Anna Friz // Angus Carlyle @anguscarlyle // Celeste Oram @celesteorama // Claire Williams // Emiddio Vasquez @emmidiately // Hannah Kemp-Welch @soundarthannah // Kathy Hinde @kathyhinde // Lia Mazzari @liamazzari // Sébastien Robert @_sebastien_r_ + Rob Stammes // Shortwave Collective @shortwavecollective // Soundcamp @sound_camp Book here (free): /e/electromagnetic-fields-artistic-research-and-radio-waves-tickets-1987060284802?aff=CRiSAPinsta Link in bio ........................ How might electromagnetic listening bring sound art, environmental research, and scientific sensing into closer relation? This symposium-on-the-radio brings together artists and researchers engaging with the electromagnetic spectrum as both material and site of inquiry. Fifteen contributors present work exploring natural radio phenomena, electromagnetic listening practices and questions of spectrum access. The programme moves between artist talks, panel discussions, audio artworks and live performance. Across these presentations, artistic research offers forms of situated knowledge production, operating alongside and in dialogue with social, scientific and technological methodologies. Read more - link in bio .................... This is a Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) event curated by artist-researchers Hannah Kemp-Welch, Lia Mazzari and Anna Clock. The symposium is hosted on the radio by artist cooperative Soundcamp and locally from their studio in London. The event is made possible by support from London College of Communication Research Department @lcclondon ................... Alt text: a radio is held to the sky which has the green lights of the aurora borealis, over a snowy landscape. The title, date and times are written on the photo, along with logos for CRiSAP and Soundcamp.

The wonderful SOUNDCAMP 13 is live! Listen to the live dawn chorus broadcast for the next 24hours, and join the camp activities in London or with other listening parties worldwide. All info in @sound_camp bio link #livesteaming

Read the interview with CRiSAP member @soundwords_sv Listening to Cinema: Sound, Epistemology, and The Limits of The Visual Repost @prcarnetworld Interview Series: Sensory Cinema: The Culture of Sound Interview: Gökhan Çolak & Arzu Karaduman @gokhancolakfounder akrdmn Interview Guest: Salomé Voegelin @soundwords_sv Salomé Voegelin’s approach challenges the visual dominance in how cinema and knowledge are traditionally understood. Western epistemology, she argues, is grounded in seeing—separating, measuring, and classifying the world into discrete objects. Sound, by contrast, resists this logic: it is relational, simultaneous, and indivisible. A sonic epistemology therefore shifts the focus from isolated things to relationships. From this perspective, cinema becomes not a visual narrative medium but a multisensory field where connections and encounters are continuously produced. Sound does not represent the world—it actively brings it into being. This framework also disrupts established hierarchies in film theory. Voegelin rejects the idea that sound merely adds value to the image, arguing instead that film is an indivisible, multisensory whole. The spectator, accordingly, is not a passive viewer but an active, embodied participant who generates meaning through listening. Listening becomes a mode of engagement rather than simple perception. Even silence plays a crucial role: it is not absence but the opening of attention, capable of unsettling meaning and revealing what usually remains unheard. In this way, listening takes on ethical and political significance. Extending her critique to contemporary technology, Voegelin argues that artificial intelligence treats sound statistically rather than relationally, reducing it to patterns and frequencies while erasing context and embodiment. This risks flattening diversity and reinforcing dominant norms. In contrast, sonic thinking offers a form of resistance by emphasizing plurality, relationality, and lived experience, pointing toward a fundamental rethinking of cinema as a network of encounters rather than a sequence of images. #cinema #sound #epistemology #sensorycinema prcarn

Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series | Nisha Ramayya Thursday 30 April 2.30pm - 4.30pm GMT This week we continue our Summer Term Programme of Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series presented by LCC Sound Arts and CRiSAP Convened by Annie Goh @annie_g0h with guest curation from Ecka Mordecai and Rory Salter with support from the Course Support Admin and Sound Arts Tech teams. 16 April - 28 May 2026 Thursdays 2.30pm - 4.30pm GMT Mark Wagner • Nisha Ramayya • Li Yilei ..................................................................... UAL students and staff: In person, Lecture Theatre B, London College of Communication External Guests: via livestream. Register on Eventbrite. Link in bio and at https://bit.ly/CRiSAP_Summer26 ..................................................................... Nisha Ramayya works across poetry, criticism, and collaborative performance, and teaches creative writing. She’s the author of two poetry collections, Fantasia (Granta, 2024) and States of the Body Produced by Love (Ignota 2019; reissued by Spiral House Editions in 2025), as well as the co-authored pamphlets Threads and Siblings, among other publications. Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane's experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth. @lccsoundarts @lcclondon @unioftheartslondon Image credit: Jemima Yong IG: @headslice

📀💿 We are delighted to invite you to Resonant Matter, a new exhibition at London College of Fashion curated and produced by CfFC Interim Director Caroline Stevenson, Luke Turk (@luketurk ) and Asha Hall-Jones, and featuring Diego Benalcazar and Rachael Finney (@crisapsoundarts ), The Deosil and Widdershin Soundsystem, Jason Jules (@garmsville ) Sir Collins Archive (@archiveshackney , and Tim and Barry TV (@timandbarry ). 💿📀 🔈Resonant Matter explores the spaces and scenes through which sound, fashion and collective cultures take shape across London. Through archival storytelling and immersive installations, the exhibition traces underground networks - from pirate radio stations and street protest to sound system cultures and club nights - where aesthetic codes are shared, adapted and performed, producing distinct forms of style, music and cultural expression. By tuning in to these practices, the exhibition considers how sound and fashion move together, shaping identities, solidarities and moments of collective resonance across the city.🔈 🔈Resonant Matter forms part of The Music is Black Festival, an East Bank–wide programme celebrating @vam_east inaugural exhibition The Music is Black: A British Story.🔈 💥Please join us on April 30th 5-8pm for a female-fronted pop, rock & disco DJ set with Seena Shamsavari @thatsparrowboy , celebrating iconic Black divas at East Bank, and make a zine with Eva Dieteren, imagining what the future will sound like. 💥 📷: @j.m.psd 2-D Design: @sebkoseda