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

Presented by LCC Sound Arts and the CRiSAP Research Centre

Convened by Annie Goh with guest curation from Ecka Mordecai and Rory Salter with support from the Course Support Admin and Sound Arts Tech teams.

Thursdays at 2.30pm-4.30pm (UK time)

16 April – 28 May

Mark Wagner • Nisha Ramayya • Li Yilei

• 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]
  

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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: Cymatics & The Mysticism of Sound: Mark Wagner is an artist, and cymatics practitioner. Cymatics is the study of visualising sound through different mediums, thus making the invisible visible and revealing the hidden processes of vibration, energy, nature and Life. Wagner's work ties in with his passion for Mysticism and Hermeticism where the mediation between the visible / invisible, inner / outer, conscious / subconscious, above / below play a central role. Wagner will present a talk on the Mystical and metaphysical nature of sound, vibration and frequency followed by a rare demo of cymatics including a Chladni plate, water cymatics and the novel and impressive bubble cymatics.

Info: Nisha Ramayya works across poetry, criticism, and collaborative performance, and teaches creative writing. She’s the author of two poetry collections, Fantasia (Granta, 2024) and States of the Body Produced by Love (Ignota 2019; reissued by Spiral House Editions in 2025), as well as the co-authored pamphlets Threads and Siblings, among other publications. Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane's experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth.

Info: Li Yilei is a Chinese-born, London-based artist and composer whose work moves through tacit listening, perceptual thresholds, and the quiet tensions between presence and disappearance. Guided by a quietly mystic approach to sensing, Li treats sound as a porous field of attunement where intuition, resonance, and the barely perceptible begin to speak. Li’s multi-media practice attends to silence, absence, and non-verbal states as active agents that shape perception as much as the audible. Unfolding through restrained gestures and spectral drift, Li’s compositions often incorporate instruments, objects, spanning tapes, theremins, ethnic instruments, field recordings, self-built devices, and organic materials. Fragments, objects, and transient sites enter the work as momentary anchors within shifting terrains, creating spaces where attention deepens, thresholds blur, and sound becomes a mode of attunement.

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