The Attic presents The Sonic Turn — International Conference · Nov 14–15, 2025

Jane Cornwell

Contributing Writer

Jane Cornwell is a Melbourne-born, London-based journalist writing on music, arts and travel. She is the jazz critic for the London Evening Standard, a contributing editor of Songlines Magazine, a compere at WOMAD festivals in the UK and Australia and a feature interviewer for publications including Jazzwise, the Weekend Australian Review and the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Written by Jane Cornwell

LISTENING LAND AND THE SONIC TURN

Hand to Earth - the Sound of Place in Australia

By mixing social meaning with the physical and technical world, Hand to Earth's sound world is a bridge, a sonic crossing, a path to understanding foregrounded by sound.

Jane Cornwell

ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY

Ros Bandt and Vicki Hallett – Listening to the Barwon River in Australia

Two of Australia’s best known field recordists, Ros Bandt and Vicki Hallett are sensing this slice of the planet – the Barwon Estuary in Victoria, Australia, a project that interrogates place as an acoustic space where sound, place, time and culture collide.

Jane Cornwell