LCC/CRiSAP Sound Arts Guest Lecture Series | Spring Term 2026

Presented by LCC Sound Arts and the CRiSAP Research Centre

Convened by Annie Goh with guest curation from Hannah Kemp-Welch and Syma Tariq with support from the Course Support Admin and Sound Arts Tech teams.

Thursdays at 2.30pm-4.30pm (UK time)

Lecture Theatre B, London College of Communication, University of Arts, London

The Spring Term lectures will be held in-person and livestreamed for external guests. (Except 22nd January: Keith & Mendi Obadike (Online only) - everyone must register for the Zoom link to access).

If you are not currently studying at UAL and would like to watch the livestream via Zoom, please reserve your spot through the Eventbrite. You will receive the Zoom link after booking.

• The lectures will be held in-person for UAL staff & students, and livestreamed for external guests. Eventbrite booking is for guests not currently studying/ working at UAL, who would like to watch a livestream of the event via Zoom.
• Please note that you will need to book for each event in the series you wish to attend
• You will be sent the Zoom link after booking. Please only email if there are any specific issues: [email protected]
  

This livestream will be hosted on Zoom. UAL's Virtual Event Privacy Notice sets out how your personal information will be collected and processed when you register and attend a UAL virtual event on Zoom:
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Filming and photography notice

Please note that filming and photography may be taking place at this event. Both bigger and smaller groups and individuals may be captured on camera. All imagery and footage may at some point be published on the College websites, social media channels, and in print.

Info: Alaa Yousry (Cerpintxt) is an Egyptian electroacoustic sound artist and neuroscientist concerned with generating an invented language of a particular strain of softness through phonetic entropy and augmented instrumentation. Working with cut-ups and dialectics to decimate language and linear constructs of temporality. In an entropic process of lingual erosion into protoconversation, the textural counterparts of her sound include wind instruments, broken turntablism, tape recorders, granular and modular synthesis. cerpintxt.com
@cerpintxt

Info: Mendi + Keith Obadike are interdisciplinary artists and composers whose media works and musical monuments explore the intersections of identity, sound, and technology. From their early Internet-based projects, treating the web as a public space for artistic and social experimentation, to architecturally scaled public sound installations, they transform urban and digital environments into resonant sites of collective listening. Professors at Cornell University, ; they exhibit internationally.

Info: Edward George is a founding member of the landmark artist’s film group Black Audio Film Collective, for which he wrote The Last Angel of History, Twilight City, Martin Luther King: Days of Hope, and Gangsta Gangsta – The Tragedy of Tupac Shakur. George is also a founder of arts group Flow Motion and electronic music group Hallucinator.

Info: I am an ADR Mixer at 'Bang Post Production'. I started in post production as a runner in 2018 and quickly worked my way up to ADR Assistant at 'Goldcrest'. I then went to 'Harbor', where I stayed for two years doing the same role I am currently doing. This role focuses on the setting up, recording and editing of automated dialogue replacement (ADR) sessions for high end Film and TV. Recent credits include 'No Time to Die', 'Stranger Things', 'Industry' and 'Bridget Jones: 'Mad About the Boy'. I have also regularly collaborated with filmmakers such as Danny Boyle, Sam Raimi, Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.

Info: Dirar Kalash is a Palestinian musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. Kalash also extends his practice into inter-disciplinary theoretical research. He has produced several solo and collaborative musical albums and is active as touring musician, in addition to that he also created several sound installations, live audio-visual performances, and photography projects.

Info: Sarah Angliss is an Ivor Novello Award winning composer and sound designer, creating new music and soundworlds for film, theatre, opera, dance, installations and her own live performances. Sarah’s music explores the sonorities of voices and instruments, revealing and augmenting them with her distinctive and finely wrought bespoke electronic techniques.

Info: Mariam Elnozahy is a curator, researcher, and writer. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm, where her program “Sacred Spaces” invites artists to address questions of religion and society. Previously, she ran exhibitions and programs at the Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art in Cairo (2016-2020) and served as the Administrative Director of Ma3azef Magazine, the leading Arabic language music magazine (2020-2023). She also curated exhibitions in Copenhagen, London, Oslo, Uppsala, Amsterdam, and Jeddah and conducted workshops in Tunis and Tangiers.

Info: Fatima Lahham is a recorder player and researcher based in Lambeth. She is currently a Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, working on her three-year community music and research project 'Carrying Each Others' Hearts with Our Ears'. Since being awarded a PhD in Music at Cambridge University in 2022, Fatima has held teaching and research positions at Royal Holloway University of London, the Royal College of Music, the music therapy charity Nordoff & Robbins, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Fatima's debut album bulbul (2022) is out on FS Records and her first book Improvising Otherwise was published in 2025 by Open Book Publishers.

Info: Jess Rowley is a sonic librarian and former cataloguer at the Feminist Library who explores decolonial approaches to archiving and editing. She is driven by a fascination with missing ephemera, developing visual archives, metadata and cataloguing processes as tools to combat cultural amnesia. Her project brothers reinterprets the lost phonograph recordings of James and George Bohee through performance activations. The duo is thought to be among the first Black musicians to record music onto a wax cylinder circa 1890.

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