Over the past year myself and Julia Schauerman have been working on an LCAB artist residency project called Growing Stories for Different Climates. As our composition now comes toward its end, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the process of collaboration and the ways our project has brought arts and sciences together.

Everyone at LCAB would like to offer their congratulations to Dr Inês Martins, who has recently had a paper published in Science!

Chris Thomas and Emma Marris in conversation as part of the York Festival of Ideas.

In LCAB last month we were joined by Professor Harriet Ritvo an Arthur J Connel Professor of history at MIT. In a series of group discussions and seminars, we chatted about what biodiversity can do for the arts (a subversion of the common ‘what can the arts do for the sciences?’ question), ‘compensating for loss’ (in terms of extinctions) and how to break down interdisciplinary boundaries.

PhD student Theo Tomking and Artist in Residence Julia Schauerman reflect on the process of collaboration throughout their time working together on the Artist Residencies programme.

As part of the LCAB Artists Residency programme, PhD student Theo Tomking and artist Julia Schauerman have been developing 'Growing Stories for Different Climates.' This will be an acousmatic story composition; a type of storytelling that uses recorded spoken word set within composed sound scenes which evoke specific places and time periods.

Artist in Residence Laura Denning and PhD candidate Chantal Berry are roughly halfway through their collaboration as part of LCAB's artists residencies programme. Laura looks forward to plans for the coming months as their research and ideas begin to crystallise.

PhD student Chantal Berry recently visited the Nottinghamshire Archives, to ascertain the sources available for her research into rural soundscapes of early modern England, a broad title for her thesis. Here is Chantal’s account of her visit.