Peter Cusack
Peter Cusack works as a field recordist, sound artist and musician with a special interest in acoustic ecology. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about their everyday sound environment and ‘Sounds From Dangerous Places’ (described as sonic journalism) that investigates the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage such as the Caspian oil fields and the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
He produced 'Vermilion Sounds' - the environmental sound program - for ResonanceFM Radio, London, is a research fellow in ‘Sound Arts & Design’ at the London College of Communication and was DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin during 2011/12, where he instigated ‘Berlin Sonic Places’ a wide-ranging collaborative project that examines the relationship between urban soundscapes and city development.
CDs include Your Favourite London Sounds (Resonance); Baikal Ice (ReR PC2); Favourite Beijing Sounds (KwanYin 022); Sound from Dangerous Places (ReR PC3&4); Favourite Berlin Sounds (ReR PC5).
http://sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/
http://sonic-places.dock-berlin.de/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=6
