The first session of Day II is centered around the definition and practices of ‘Recording the Urban Field’.  Peter Cusack is first to introduce a recent experience as artist-in-residence in Berlin, and to point out just how much inhabiting a city for the first time had enhanced his aural awareness and attraction to local sound…

Day I at the In the Field symposium packed a lot into a tight schedule of presentations, listening sessions and walking tours.  The queue snaked out onto the piazza of the British Library, under a blue sky and the watchful eye of William Blake’s Newton. Sold out on both days, the auditorium was tightly packed…