Sound artist Peter Cusack explaining why he likes to use stereo for soundscape recording. Interview recorded in Rummelsberg, Berlin, as part of research for an AHRC fellowship.

Peter Cusack talks about using stereo for field recording

Paolo Novellino  
Musicista paesaggista sonoro e ricercatore indipendente produce e promuove la creazione in forma musicale attraverso pubblicazioni discografiche e alla attività concertistica in Italia e all’estero. Come chitarrista si concentra sulla ricerca di spazi, pause e sospensioni del suono che si alternano a piccole rivelazioni che parlano di intuizioni, colori, luoghi nella costante ricerca di silenzi e di risonanze.    
Fondatore di “LABOULE Ascolto/ Ricerca / Creazione”, partendo dallo studio del paesaggio sonoro inizia ad occuparsi di mappature, didattica, audio documentari, sound design, sonorizzazioni, archivi sonori, sound walk, deep listening… Dal 2017 è membro di FKL forum Klanglandschaft. Associazione europea che si occupa dello studio del paesaggio sonoro.   
Incontra il lavoro del maestro indiano Shri Vemu Mukunda attraverso uno dei suoi principali allievi, Riccardo Misto, presso la cui scuola ottiene l’attestato di formazione in Nāda Yoga (Yoga del Suono)

Azadeh Nilchiani, is an artist, researcher, and university lecturer, currently a postdoctoral researcher on the DEM'ARTS project, "Création, démocratie et numérique", directed by Sandra Laugier PR (ISJPS) at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
She holds a PhD in Arts (sound arts and sound studies) on « Sound installations in urban spaces» from the LISAA research laboratory, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France, 2021.
Graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran University in Iran, then in France at ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) in Art-Espace and at the École nationale de musique de Pantin in 2009. In 2010, she obtained a Master 2 in Music and Multimedia at the University of Paris-Est. She was an associate and guest researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France on the collection of the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) from 2016 to 2019. She is a temporary teaching and research associate (ATER) at the University of Lille since October 2019.

Her practice is multidisciplinary, combining sound, visual and spatial media, through installation, video art, field recording and electroacoustic composition. Her artwork has been shown since 2002 in Iran, France, Chile, Greece, Myanmar, Mexico, South Korea, Portugal, the United States, Sweden, Dubai, Finland and Spain.

Academic researcher interested in environmental sound and audio media. Background in human geography, childhood studies and education. I also make music.

Ross Davidson is an award-winning composer of electroacoustic music who completed an MA in composition at the University of Sheffield in 2017. His music focuses on the creation of immersive sound-worlds, with an emphasis on forming rich relationships between the different spectro/spatio-morphologies contained within and expressed by these sonic environments. In addition to his electroacoustic works, he has also previously composed for film, theatre and contemporary dance.

His music has been performed internationally at festivals such as Ciclo de Música Electroacústica (Valdivia), Sound Junction (Sheffield), Ai Maako (Santiago), and The Engine Room International Sound Art Exhibition (London). This year he undertook La Wayaka Current’s artist residency in Guna Yala, Panama, where he made extensive field recordings of the beautiful tropical rainforest soundscapes. In 2017 his piece Veins Coalesce was awarded the student category prize in Klang!.
He has diffused his works as part of Sheffield’s biannual Sound Junction concert series, as well as at Ai Maako (Santiago 2016). His piece Veins Coalesce won the student category award in Klang! 2017, and was also selected to be played as part of The Engine Room International Sound Art Exhibition (London 2017). He also enjoys multi-media projects, having composed music for the theatre productions Jackdaws (Sheffield, 2016) and the adaptation of Breathing Corpses (Sheffield, 2017). He is a member of the duo AARD, an improvised live-coding and modular synth group, along with Alejandro Albornoz.

Peter Cusack talks about using stereo for field recording

Michael D Gallagher