Lisa Hall will be presenting her research at the Urban Sound Symposium this April.

What insights do artistic and curatorial sonic practice share about the urban condition? In this presentation Lisa will present her research exploring urban sound arts festivals / exhibitions as curatorial and artistic methods of urban enquiry and as unique archives of urban sonic knowledge.

Lisa will give a curatorial tour of the online exhibition 'Acts of Air: reshaping the urban sonic', curated for CRiSAP, an exhibition that requires audience participation to realise the artworks in urban spaces around the world, as a means to explore and interrogate cities of sound. The project generated a large collection of performance 'traces' (videos, images and texts) and feedback from workshop participants that provide sonic perspectives about the urban experience. Lisa will present her research into urban sound arts festivals, specifically the Tsonami Festival of Sound Arts in Chile, exploring the curatorial shaping of these investigations and the topics of artistic enquiry addressed by the artists. Through study of urban sound arts festivals she intends to highlight the insight into the urban experience that is identified by these creative sonic practices and the methods through which they are realised.

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The three day symposium is centred around themes of urban sound planning and design, urban sound propagation and control, sound technologies, urban soundscape analysis and sound art.

Details of the full progam and how to register can be found here:

https://urban-sound-symposium.org/