Performing on Saturday 4 April.

Peter Cusack is a field recordist and sound artist with a long interest in the sound environment. In 1998 he initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover how people interact with the soundscapes of the places where they live. At Rewire 2020, Cusack will give a performative lecture on his project ‘Sounds from Dangerous Places’. This project investigates the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage such as the Caspian oil fields, the Chernobyl exclusion zone and the Aral Sea, Central Asia, and asks the question, “What can be learnt about dangerous places by listening to their sounds?”