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Cathy Lane is an artist, composer and writer. She works primarily in sound, combining oral history, archival recordings, spoken word and environmental recordings to investigate histories, environments, our collective and individual memories and the forces that shape them. She is inspired by places or themes which are rooted in everyday experience and particularly interested in challenging dominant narratives and in ‘hidden histories’ and historical amnesia and how this can be investigated from a feminist perspective through the medium of composed sound. Most of her work in in the form of gallery installations, concert pieces, performative presentations, books and essays. Books include: Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice (RGAP, 2008) and, with Angus Carlyle, In the Field (Uniformbooks, 2013), a collection of interviews about field recording in contemporary sound art; On Listening (2013) essays about how listening is used in a wide variety of disciplines and Sound Arts Now (2021), an exploration of contemporary artistic practices. Her CD The Hebrides Suite explores aspects of life, past and present, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, through the medium of composed sound. Cathy Lane is Emerita Professor of Sound Arts at University of the Arts London and a co-founder of Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) a UAL research centre.