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Peter Cusack is an artist and musician who is a member of CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Art & Performance), and is a research staff member and founding member of the London College of Communication in the University of the Arts London. He was a founding member and director of the London Musicians Collective.
He is perhaps best-known as a member of the avant guard musical quartet, "Alterations" (1978-1986; with Steve Beresford, David Toop, and Terry Day) [1], and the creator of field and wildlife recording-based albums like:
However, Cusack has been extremely active and productive over his career and has been involved in many more projects. Several of his pieces have been reviewed in Leonardo Music Journal, the annual music Journal published by MIT Press. He has also curated an album for Leonardo Music Journal, and several of his pieces have been reviewed by Leonardo Music Journal and many others.
He is currently research fellow on the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council's multidisciplinary 'Positive Soundscapes Project'.
Cusack is particularly interested in environmental sound and acoustic ecology. He has researched the sound properties of areas such as Lake Baikal, Siberia, and the Azerbaijan oil fields. He is interested in how sounds change as people migrate and as technology changes.
In 1998, Cusack started the "Your Favorite London Sound" project. The goal is to find out what London noises are found appealing by people who live in London. [2] This was so popular that it has been repeated in Chicago, Beijing, and other cities. He is involved in the "Sound & The City" art project using sounds from Beijing in October, 2005.
Sounds From Dangerous Places is a project to collect sounds from sites which have sustained major environmental damage. Sites that Cusack is working on include Chernobyl, the Azerbaijan oil fields, and areas around controversial dams on the Tigris and Euphrates river systems in south east Turkey.
Cusack's "performances" are a central part of the book Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory (Toop, 2004) by his old collaborator and respected music critic and author, David Toop. Toop investigates the use of environmental sound and elecronic instruments in experimental music in his book.
With clarinetist Simon Mayo, he formed the duo known as "A Touch of the Sun". His first "major" recording was part of Fred Frith's 1974 record, "Guitar Solos".
He was one of the first to play the bouzouki in England, which gained him the respect of London's musical avant garde.
As a musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Clive Bell, Nic Collins, Alterations, Chris Cutler, Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Annette Krebs and Eastern Mediterranean singer Viv Corringham.
A live performance with Nicolas Collins was released as "A Host, of Golden Daffodils" in 1999.
He co-founded an artist-owned record label called "Bead Records" which has released many previously unavailable pieces in 1972. It had released more than 30 albums, as of 2007.
Cusack produces the monthly radio program "Vermilion Sounds" with Isobel Clouter. Vermilion Sounds explores environmental sounds and is broadcast by Resonance FM in London. John Levack Drever, writing in Soundscapes, comments:
Cusack is particularly unique in that his activities take him far afield. He had done work in Austria, Canada, Turkey, Beijing, in Azerbijan, in Siberia, China's most western province, Xinjiang and France. He also spent 2 years at the STEIM studio in Amsterdam, honing his electronic music skills.
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Peter Cusack is an artist and musician who is a member of CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Art & Performance), and is a research staff member and founding member of the London College of Communication in the University of the Arts London. He was a founding member and director of the London Musicians Collective.
He is perhaps best-known as a member of the avant guard musical quartet, "Alterations" (1978-1986; with Steve Beresford, David Toop, and Terry Day) [1], and the creator of field and wildlife recording-based albums like:
However, Cusack has been extremely active and productive over his career and has been involved in many more projects. Several of his pieces have been reviewed in Leonardo Music Journal, the annual music Journal published by MIT Press. He has also curated an album for Leonardo Music Journal, and several of his pieces have been reviewed by Leonardo Music Journal and many others.
He is currently research fellow on the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council's multidisciplinary 'Positive Soundscapes Project'.
Cusack is particularly interested in environmental sound and acoustic ecology. He has researched the sound properties of areas such as Lake Baikal, Siberia, and the Azerbaijan oil fields. He is interested in how sounds change as people migrate and as technology changes.
In 1998, Cusack started the "Your Favorite London Sound" project. The goal is to find out what London noises are found appealing by people who live in London. [2] This was so popular that it has been repeated in Chicago, Beijing, and other cities. He is involved in the "Sound & The City" art project using sounds from Beijing in October, 2005.
Sounds From Dangerous Places is a project to collect sounds from sites which have sustained major environmental damage. Sites that Cusack is working on include Chernobyl, the Azerbaijan oil fields, and areas around controversial dams on the Tigris and Euphrates river systems in south east Turkey.
Cusack's "performances" are a central part of the book Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory (Toop, 2004) by his old collaborator and respected music critic and author, David Toop. Toop investigates the use of environmental sound and elecronic instruments in experimental music in his book.
With clarinetist Simon Mayo, he formed the duo known as "A Touch of the Sun". His first "major" recording was part of Fred Frith's 1974 record, "Guitar Solos".
He was one of the first to play the bouzouki in England, which gained him the respect of London's musical avant garde.
As a musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Clive Bell, Nic Collins, Alterations, Chris Cutler, Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Annette Krebs and Eastern Mediterranean singer Viv Corringham.
A live performance with Nicolas Collins was released as "A Host, of Golden Daffodils" in 1999.
He co-founded an artist-owned record label called "Bead Records" which has released many previously unavailable pieces in 1972. It had released more than 30 albums, as of 2007.
Cusack produces the monthly radio program "Vermilion Sounds" with Isobel Clouter. Vermilion Sounds explores environmental sounds and is broadcast by Resonance FM in London. John Levack Drever, writing in Soundscapes, comments:
Cusack is particularly unique in that his activities take him far afield. He had done work in Austria, Canada, Turkey, Beijing, in Azerbijan, in Siberia, China's most western province, Xinjiang and France. He also spent 2 years at the STEIM studio in Amsterdam, honing his electronic music skills.