In the Field 2

 A three day event exploring the themes, issues and practices of contemporary field recording 

Dates: 4, 5, 6 July 2024 

​Venue: In person at London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and online

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Following on from our previous call for contributions we are delighted to announce In The Field 2 an event exploring the themes, issues and practices of contemporary field recording. Over three days, through peer-reviewed presentations, workshops, sound and video works, we will share multi-disciplinary perspectives on practices, methods and theoretical approaches from over eighty international presenters.


Indicative panels are as follows (NB this is subject to change): 


Thursday 4 July
Hearing Criticalities: Layers in Space and Time
Capturing and Releasing Lifeworlds
Placing the Field 
Memory Machines: Inclusion, Ethics, Authenticity 
Interference, Energy, Technology, Polyphony
 Friday 5 July (includes parallel sessions)
Sonic Ethnographies and Subjectivities
Acoustic Witnessing 
Audio Channels: Swarms, Streams, Samples, Dummy Heads 
The Social Lives of Sounds 
Sensory Collaborations
Amplification, Attention, Reception 
Listening, Relistening, Reflecting, Resisting
Performing Archives, Hearing Histories, Tuning Technologies
 Saturday 6 July
Concrete and Abstract: Pressing Record and Activating Collections 
Localities and Elsewheres
Bodies, Care and Ghosts
 There will also be a workshop programme and a listening room and video screening room available throughout the event. In the Field 2 follows on from the international 2013 symposium of the same name, organised by CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice), University of the Arts London in collaboration with the British Library. While the 2013 event mapped contemporary practices and their historical precedents, In the Field 2 will investigate how the practice of field recording has changed in the intervening decade of escalating ecological, political, social and financial challenges.