In the Field 2 - Programme
A three day event exploring the themes, issues and practices of contemporary field recording
Dates: 4, 5, 6 July 2024.
Venue: In person at London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and online
In the Field 2 was 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 included acoustic witnessing, technology and ethics, critical fieldcraft, multi-sensory listening, memory, archives and more, forging unique and timely interventions into the changing methods, aesthetics and debates that infuse the field. The conference 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.