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.
Research Feature: Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields: The Poetics and Politics of Environmental Sound Arts
How is agency distributed “in the field” and how can the practice of field recording critically manifest the relationship between humans and non-humans? This PhD thesis posits an original art practice of field recording based on a perspective I am calling “Inter-agential”. Employing the self-reflexive anthropological turn of the 1970’s as parallel critique throughout, I argue environmental sound art has ignored the politics of observer-subject relations and instead engaged place and sound through divisive legacies of conservation and composition.
Born in the UK in 1981, following training at a music conservatoire and a career as a musician, Julie gained a Distinction for her Masters in Sound Art at London College of Communication and has embarked upon a creative research degree. Alongside her research, she continues a dual career as professional flautist/composer and sound artist.
