Cathy Lane is an artist, composer and academic. 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 »hidden histories« and historical amnesia and how this can be investigated from a feminist perspective through the medium of composed sound. Books include: Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice (RGAP, 2008) and, with Angus Carlyle, In the Field (Uniformbooks, 2013), On Listening (2013) and Sound Arts Now (2021). 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 Professor of Sound Arts at University of the Arts London.