I’m happy to announce that I have been invited to present in the International Conference of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, “Ideologies and Ethics in the Uses and Abuses of Sound”, hosted by the University of Eastern Finland, Cultural Studies Department and the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology (FSAE). The conference will happen on June 16-19, in Koli, Finland.

My presentation proposal concerns the recent activities of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE).

Confirmed invited and keynote speakers are (in alphabetical order):
Steven Feld, Charles Hirschkind, Bruce Johnson, Anahid Kassabian, Andra McCartney, R. Murray Schafer, Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp.

In March 2009 I attended the WFAE Megalópolis Sonoras Conference in Mexico City. You can read my brief report here.

An abstract of my presentation for the 2010 conference will be posted here, soon. The MSAE’s attention has recently been focused on soundwalks organized with the World Listening Project. The MSAE supports the Gropius in Chicago Coalition (GCC) who been tirelessly working to stop the demolition of eight buildings on the 37-acre campus of the former Michael Reese Hospital. Designed in the late-1940s and early-50s by Bauhaus founder, Walter Gropius, the Michael Reese Hospital campus was a model of architectural and acoustic design, making it a prized piece of Chicago’s cultural and architectural legacy. Shamefully, and to mounting international protests, most of it has been destroyed without open public dialog or future plan. Read more: http://savemrh.com