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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.

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Research Feature: Vibrating the Web: Sonospheric Studies of Media Infrastructure Ecologies

How can the relationship between media infrastructures and the economies of noise foster the development of a sonospheric art practice? Media infrastructures are the material backbone of the Internet. Such sites underpin the digitally hyperconnected world, but as material assemblages are also imbricated in complex and divisive ecological, environmental, economic and affective practices. This thesis identifies a lack of sonic discourse within the body of growing critical art practice researching the field of media infrastructures, and will contribute to the field of sound studies by arguing, and defining a methodology, for listening sonospherically (Oliveros, 2011).
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Member Profile: Syma Tariq

Syma's PhD is titled 'Partition’s sonic condition: listening through the postcolonised archive'. Her practice-based research focuses on the discursive and temporal separations embedded in histories of the 1947 partition – the division of the British Raj into independent India and (east and west) Pakistan – through their sonic-archival forms.
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News: Timothy Smith, new Post Doctoral researcher on Listening Across Disciplines II

CRiSAP's PhD Doctor Timothy Smith will be joining the Listening Across Disciplines II (LxDII) research project for a three month Post Doc on the final phase of the project. LxDII systematically investigates the potential of listening as a legitimate and reliable methodology for research across the arts and humanities, science, social science and technology.
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