Peter Cusack
Guest Faculty | Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.)
Contact through office@sounds.berlin
TEL +49 30 3185 - 2482
Lietzenburger Straße 45, 10789 Berlin
Peter Cusack is a field recordist, musician and sound artist with a long interest in the sound environment. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about their everyday sound environment and ‘Sounds from Dangerous Places’ (sonic journalism) that investigates sites of major environmental damage such as the Caspian Sea oil fields and the Chernobyl exclusion zone. He produced 'Vermilion Sounds' - the environmental sound program - for ResonanceFM Radio, is a research fellow at the University of the arts, London and was DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin 2011/12, intitiating ‘Berlin Sonic Places’ that examines relationships between soundscape and urban development. Musical collaborators include Alterations, Clive Bell, Tomomi Adachi, Max Eastley, Nic Collins, Viv Corringham.
http://sounds-from-dangerous-places.org
http://sonic-places.dock-berlin.de/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=6
Publications
Berlin Sonic Places - book, https://www.wolke-verlag.de/cusack.html
Sounds from Dangerous Places - double CD/80 page booklet, http://sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/