This was a very interesting lecture from Professor Cathy Lane, she is an academic and the director of Crisap (Creative Research Into Sound Arts Practice) at UAL. She describes herself as an investigator, and her work often features spoken word, field recordings and electronic sounds.

The lecture starts with the listening of “Am I here?” a lovely twenty minutes piece which includes field recordings and speeches in French, English and Spanish; the composition is very well structured and it make us travel to different scenarios with the use of field recordings.

Another work of great importance during her career is “The Hebrides Suite”, on this project she focused on recording the sonic environment of these Scottish islands, a very peculiar area of the United Kingdom, where more that eighty per cent of the population speaks Scottish Gaelic.

She also showed us more works like the Square Peg Round Hole or experimentations with the International Phonetic Alphabet. This lecture was extremely useful, Cathy is an experienced sound artist and her presentation was really inspiring.