Autumn Leaves was a 2007 book about how sound encounters space and about how that encounter has been made visible, legible and, most importantly, audible. The book drew together a number of different theoretical perspectives - from acoustics to architectural criticism to anthropology and beyond - and places these perspectives in conversation with other perspectives developed through creative practice. Autumn Leaves was designed by the great Ian Noble and published by Double Entendre in Paris.
Autumn Leaves became a compilation album in collaboration with the Gruenrekorder record label that went on to win the 2008 Qwartz Award. You can download the 3 CD exploration of field recording by following this link.
Autumn Leaves became a compilation album in collaboration with the Gruenrekorder record label that went on to win the 2008 Qwartz Award. You can download the 3 CD exploration of field recording by following this link.
51° 32 ' 6.954” N / 0° 00 ' 47.0808” W was a commission in 2008 for the Sound Proof group show. A 32 page booklet was originally available at the show and a later 42 page booklet adapted some of the materials, which were texts written on site, photographs and hand-drawn soundwaves.
Edited with Cathy Lane, On Listening was a 2013 collection of forty multi-disciplinary perspectives drawn from anthropology, bioacoustics, geography, literature, community activism, sociology, religion, philosophy, art history, conflict mediation and the sonic arts including music, ethnomusicology and field recording. Each contribution was specially commissioned and the book is organised into thematic sections with their own introductions. On Listening explores the many ways in which skilled listening can mediate new relationships with our physical environment and the people and other species that we share it with. It is published by uniformbooks.
Written with Cathy Lane, In The Field was a 2012 collection of eighteen interviews with contemporary sound artists who use field recording in their work. These conversations explore the fundamental issues that underlie the development of field recording as the core of the artists' activities. Recurring themes include early motivations, aesthetic preferences, the audible presence of the recordist and the nature of the field. I interviewed Andrea Polli, Davide Tidoni, Felicity Ford, Hiroki Sasajima, Jana Winderen, Jez Riley French, Lasse-Marc Riek, Steve Feld and Viv Corringham. It is published by uniformbooks. The book emerged from the Sounds of Europe project.
"In The Shadow of the Silent Mountain" is discussed here, this is the 2016 Paul Bailey-designed publication of two singer-stitched booklets bound into a clear cover that has been hand spray-painted with the project logo, an abstraction of the red painted stripes that mark the mountain sentieri or paths.
A Downland Index, published by uniformbooks in the Summer of 2016, documents 100 successive runs across the South Downs, each written in 100 words. The 72 page book begins with an index of the words that appear in the 100 entries, which are each dated in the manner of a diary, and culiminates in a short essay contextualising the project.
Night Blooms, published by Makina Books during 2020's lockdown, attempts through images and texts to explore the textures in the nocturnal peripheries of the city where I live. The material was gathered over five successive seasons, leaving the house in all weathers with a head torch and a compact camera.
"In Sound arts now, Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle explore contemporary artistic practices and theories, and what contributes to or hinders artistic and career development. This is conducted through a series of interviews with artists and curators, putting the often-unheard voice of the maker at the centre of the discourse.There is a conscious shift of reference away from the “white men from the global north” who have dominated the canon during the decades of the discipline’s emergence and establishment. The twenty interviews focus on contemporary and future ideas and practices with artists at early or mid-points in their working lives, whose backgrounds, geographical locations and experi-ences are as wide-ranging as their approaches and ideas.Adam Basanta, AM Kanngieser, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Caroline Devine, Elsa M’bala, Evan Ifekoya, Hanna Tuulikki, Hong-Kai Wang, Jau-Lan Guo, Jennifer Walshe, Khaled Kaddal, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lina Lapelyte, Maria Chavez, Mark Peter Wright, Mikel R. Nieto, Mikhail Karikis, Samson Young, Yang Yeung, Yashas Shetty" From the uniformbooks blurb.