Lecture by Peter Cusack, Senior Lecturer Sound Arts & Design at the London College of Communication, as invited by the AA Summer School unit 'A Catastrophic Silence' run by Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta, and Douglas Moffat (http://catastrophicsilence.tumblr.com). Peter talks through his own projects exploring the sounds characteristic to different cities and the role these sounds play in the lives of the city inhabitants. Your Favorite London Sound and Your Favorite Beijing Sound are followed by another of Peter's research into the sonic conditions of what he terms 'Dangerous Places' - urban environments which have experienced sudden and major devastation. Peter Cusack, based in London, works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in environmental sound and acoustic ecology. Projects move from community arts to research into the contribution of sound to our senses of place to recordings that document areas of special sonic interest, e.g. Lake Baikal, Siberia, and Xinjang, China’s most western province. Recently involved in 'Sound & the City' the British Council sound art project in Beijing 2005. His current project 'Sounds From Dangerous Places’ examines the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage, e.g. Chernobyl, the Azerbaijan oil fields, controversial dams on the Tigris and Euphratees river systems in south east Turkey. #

105:51 min, Ema Bonifacic 18/7/2008

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