Peter Cusack

 
Peter Cusack is an English field recordist, musician and sound artist with a long interest in the sound environment. He is based in London and Berlin. He is best known as a member of the avant garde musical quartet, Alterations (1978–1986; with Steve Beresford, David Toop, and Terry Day), and the creator of field and wildlife recording-based albums. In 1998 he started the Favourite Sounds Project that explores what people find positive about the sounds of the cities—London, Beijing, Chicago, Prague, Birmingham, Berlin—where they live. His project Sounds From Dangerous Places (described as sonic journalism) investigates soundscapes at sites of major environmental damage including the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Caspian oil fields in Azerbaijan, the Italian city of Taranto and the Aral Sea.

(external link : favouritesounds.org)
 
Peter Cusack - Alterations - Logos Foundation, Gent, 01​/​31​/​1981 (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Never released before recordings by the improvising quartet Alterations (active from 1977 to 1986, and reforming in 2015) from Logos Foundation live sessions at Logos Foundation, Gent, Belgium on January 3, 1981.
Peter Cusack - Aral Sea Stories and the River Naryn (vinyl LP)
2019
Corvo Records
A sound and photographic project about the disappearance of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.


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