Peter Cusack
Peter Cusack is a field recordist, musician and sound artist with a long interest in the sound environment. He is based in London and Berlin.
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. During 2011/12 he was a DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin and initiated the Berlin Sonic Places project to consider the relationship between soundscape and urban development.
http://sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/
http://sonic-places.dock-berlin.de/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=6
http://favouritesounds.org