On July 4, 5, 6th of 2024, I was part of the organising team of In the Field 2, an international conference “exploring new perspectives in field recording practice and research. Over eighty international presenters [contributed] a diverse range of insights across peer reviewed presentations, workshops, sound and video works. Topics including acoustic witnessing, technology and ethics, critical fieldcraft, multi-sensory listening, memory, archives and more will forge unique and timely interventions into the changing methods, aesthetics and debates that infuse the field.
“In the Field 2 [followed] 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 [investigated] how the practice of field recording has changed in the intervening decade of escalating ecological, political, social and financial challenges”.
With Louise Gray I also gathered contributors’ favourite field recording-related works for a chart in the June issue of The Wire magazine.
