My report about Listening for the Future, the first American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE) symposium and retreat, has been published on the September/October World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Online Newsletter.

In related news, within the next month I plan to have the proceedings (images, texts, and audio) from Listening for the Future published on the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology website.

When you read the WFAE Newsletter you may notice that I was recently appointed as the new president of the ASAE. This is a big honor for me, one that came unexpectedly. It is also challenge. With the support of Andrea Polli, Michelle Nagai, and Arlene Walters I have confidence in my ability to serve.

On my immediate list of things to do is have a new ASAE website built. Planning is underway. I also hope that next year we will have another, equally successful ASAE symposium. Larger questions effecting our mission need to be addressed. Please stay tuned for more developments.

I’m happy to announce that the American Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Listening for the Future symposium will take place from Friday, July 9 through Sunday, July 11 in Chicago. Hosted by the ASAE’s Midwest chapter and the World Listening Project this conference is the first of its kind in the United States.

Please visit the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology website for details on how to participate.

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My presentation, “Tourists in the soundscape, acoustic ecology in Chicago” will be given at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16 for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference: Ideologies and Ethics in the Uses and Abuses of Sound in Koli, Finland.

The conference runs from June 16-19, 2010. For those who cannot attend, some papers will be available and some session will be recorded, and made available online.

Download the conference program.

Eric Leonardson & Ignaz Schick at Altes Finanzamt

Tue, June 08 @ 10:00 PM CEST
Eric Leonardson (Chicago) - springboard
Ignaz Schick (Berlin) - turntable

A video of Eric Leonardson performing with Ignaz Schick and Jason Soliday

Stark bewölkt with Birgit Ulher at Höbar

Wed, June 09 @ 9:30 PM CEST

There will be 3 acts:

Liz Allbee, Trompete (Berlin / Oakland)
George Cremaschi, Kontrabass (Tábor, Tschechien / Oakland)
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Heidrun Schramm/Sonata Rec, Elektronik, Video (Berlin)
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Eric Leonardson, springboard (Chicago)
Birgit Ulher, Trompete, Radio, miutes, Lautsprecher (Hamburg)

Eric Leonardson at LÀ-BAS -> KARELIA

Sat, June 12 @ 7 - 11 PM EEST

7 pm: Les Maitres d’ouvre (Technical Supervisors) avec Casimir Lütha

8 pm: Tomasz Szrama

9 pm: Jukka Hautamäki

10 pm: Eric Leonardson

Between performances: “Karelia” by The Guardians of Being

Eric Leonardson, Other Music at Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum

Sun, June 13 @ 3:00 PM EEST

More info: http://www.aboavetusarsnova.fi/en/museossa-tapahtuu/kontakti

An evening of electroacoustic works at Pakkahuone, Joensuu

Tue, June 15 @ 6:00–9:30 PM
•    Hildegrad Westerkamp (Vancouver): Into the Labyrinth
•    Barry Truax (Vancouver): Chalice Well
•    Steven Feld (Santa Fe): Waking in Nima
•    Eric Leonardson (Chicago): No Time Like Real Time
•    R. Murray Schafer: Winter Diary

(This concert event is a prelude to the 2010 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference in Koli, Finland. I will be giving a short presentation entitled “Tourists in the Soundscape” and participating in a panel discussion “What’s new? - 35 years later: Updates on The Tuning of the World, a discussion on the occasion of the upcoming German re-edition”. ) More info: http://www.akueko.com/

The American Society for Acoustic Ecology Symposium and Retreat, happens July 9—11, 2010. It’s the first acoustic ecology conference to be held in Chicago. I’m one of the organizers as well as the founder and director of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. Feel free to contact me with questions and/or ideas. Contact andrea@andreapolli.com or info@mwsae.org for more information.

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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. (more…)

The May-June, 2009 issue of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) online newsletter published my report about Megalópolis sonoras: Identidad cultural y sonidos en peligro de extinción (Sound Megalopolis: Cultural Indentity and Sounds in danger of extinction). I attended the conference from 23-27 March 2009, held in Mexico City at the Fonoteca Nacional.

http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/library/newsarchive/2009/03_may_june/index.htm

Find links to my report (PDF and HTML), the papers, and reports by Nigel Frayne, Hildegard Westerkamp, Vivienne Spiteri, Randolph Jordan, and others listed under the Observations and Commentary section. Or, you may use this direct link to download the PDF of my report.