My work explores environments and atmospheres as embodiments of stress and relief, with listening becoming writing, recordings, photographs and films (and very rarely performances). I often work alone but find sharing creativity more enjoyable: I have collaborated with Kozo Hiramatsu and Rupert Cox on projects related to civilian and military overflights since 2011; with Cathy Lane as part of the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) research centre since 2005; with Mark Peter Wright as Decoys since 2015; with Simon James along the Shoreham coastline since 2021; and with Katrin Losleben, Za Barron, Paula Ryggvik Mikalsen and Britta Sweers on Arctic Auditories (2022 – 2025).
I have left my Twitter account to rot but am still on Instagram as @anguscarlyle. My Vimeo, Soundcloud and Medium pages are in sorry states. Contact me at anguscarlyle dot gmail dot com.
I accidentally deleted my previous website so a lot of the detail that was in 10 years of news posts is missing, so something like a CV can be found below.
Some chapters & articles (others on sporadically updated Medium page)
2023
“Sixty Stories, Six Thousand Miles Apart,” in eds. Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale and Polly Stanton Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical Practice for Art and Art-Based Research, Onomatopee.
“Meters” in Daniel Knef and Lasse Marc Riek Field Notes.
2021
“And Listened to The Whistlings and Patterings Outside: Hearing The Wild As Sound” in eds. David Prior, Jane Grant and John Matthis, Oxford Handbook of Sound Art.
“Dissonant Dopplegangers: Performing the Post-Natural Through Modulated Foley Techniques,” with Mark Peter Wright, in Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 10 (1), special issue on Antropoceno Sónico – Práticas Sonoras para um Ambiente em Mudança.
2020
“Dropping Down Low: Soundmaps: Critique, Genealogy, Alternatives,” in eds. Michael Bull and Marcel Coubussen, Sonic Methodologies, Bloomsbury.
2018
“Noise Pollution in Hospitals: excessive noise is damaging for both patients and staff” with Andreas Xyrichis, Anne Marie Rafferty, Jamie Mackrill, John Wynne, British Medical Journal doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k4808
2017
“The Cave Mouth and the Giant Voice”, with Rupert Cox, in eds. Nicholas J. Saunders and Paul Cornish, Modern Conflict and the Senses, Routledge.
“Memories of Memories of Memories of Memories,” in ed. Bernd Herzogenrath, Sonic Thinking: A Media Philosophy, Bloomsbury (US).
2013
“Skylarks: An Exploration of a Collaboration between Art, Anthropology and Science,” with Rupert Cox in eds. Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright, Anthropology and Arts Practice (London: Bloomsbury).
2012
“From Memory”, Journal of Photographic Culture, 5.2.
2008
“Soundwalking as a methodology for understanding soundscapes,” with Adams, M., Bruce, N., Davies, W. J, Cain, R., Jennings, P., Cusack, P., Hume, K., Plack, C. in Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Reading, UK, pp. 552–558.
Books & pamphlets
2023 A dog at the edge of things (JOAN)
2022 Mirrors (self-published)
2021 (with Cathy Lane) Sound arts now, uniformbooks.
2020 Night Blooms, Makina Books, London.
2016 A Downland Index, uniformbooks.
2013 (with Cathy Lane) In The Field, uniformbooks.
2013 (with Cathy Lane) On Listening, edited volume, uniformbooks.
2007 Autumn Leaves, edited volume, Double Entendre, Paris.
Some sound works
2021 “Air Stream: Air” and “Air Stream: Ether” clouds and tracks.
2018 (with Mark Peter Wright) Decoys, LP, multimodal / NMC records.
2017 (with Rupert Cox) Zawawa, 50:00, HD, Stereo, Eng, Fr, Jp
2017 “Marshland,” Helicotrema Festival, Venice.
2016 – 2023 A Crossing Bell, installation, cast bell, structures, scores.
2016 In The Shadow of the Silent Mountain, booklet + website + LP, Gruenrekorder.
2015 (with Chiara Caterina) Into The Outside, 10.32, HD, Stereo.
2013 (with Rupert Cox) Air Pressure, booklet + CD, Gruenrekorder.
2013 (with Chiara Caterina) Il Vertice, 8:34, HD, Stereo
2012 sound map and installations at Viso Come Territorio exhibition.
2012 (with Rupert Cox) Kiatsu, 10:00, HD, Stereo (+ 10.2 channel, two screen)
2011 “Noli Me Tangere,” audio installation, Brighton Museum, Soundwaves Festival.
2009 Some Memories of Bamboo, CD, Gruenrekorder.
2008 “51° 32 ‘ 6.954” N / 0° 00 ‘ 47.0808” W,” 1 hour audio composition, map and 32 page booklet, E:vent Gallery, London.
Awards
Shortlisted for 2018 Jean Rouch Ethnographic Film Award (15 out of 821 entrants), (with Rupert Cox); ‘Special Mention’, Short-Listed for 2016 Swedenborg Film Festival for Into The Outside (with Chiara Caterina); ‘Honorable Mention’, 2016 South East Asian Anthropology Award, for Kiatsu (with Rupert Cox); Sir Misha Black 2011 Award for Excellence in Design Education, for CRiSAP research centre (with Cathy Lane);
Qwartz Electronic Music Award, Best Compilation 2008 (with Lasse-Marc Riek).