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.
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.
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.
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…)
Eric Leonardson presents a 45-minute audio program of unique field recordings and soundscape compositions by member’s of the World Listening Project from outside of Chicago. This program immediately follows the opening dance work by Rachel Thorne Germond.
Saturday’s festival program includes a full day and evening of performances and readings that run from 2:00-11:00 p.m.
Please visit the festival website and check the “Schedule” tab for the full program: http://www.chicagocalling.org/
I contributed a field recording to Mary Jey’s show on Sounds of Destruction for this month’s Giant Ear broadcast on Sunday, June 28 from 7-9pm (Eastern). Listen on free103point9.org (streamed on the net).
I have been invited to speak about the World Listening Project at the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE)’s 4th International Soundscape Retreat & Symposium: Negotiating Space/Place In the Changing Soundscape. It happens on Gabriola Island, British Columbia from June 12-14. Hildegard Westerkamp, Barry Truax, Charlie Fox, and Eric Powell are also speaking. I will also play my work in the soundscape concert to be held on Saturday, June 13.
For full details please visit www.acousticecology.ca.
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.
On Wednesday the May-June issue of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology’s online newsletter was published with my report about the Sound Megalopolis conference in Mexico City.
The announcement (re-posted)
Members of the World Listening Project will be on Chicago’s WLUW 88.7 Loyola radio program Something Else hosted by Philip Von Zweck this Sunday night at 10PM Central (GMT -6) on April 5th. Field recordings by WLP members will be aired and news of upcoming events provided.
If you live outside the broadcast radius of WLUW, you can still listen to the Internet stream: http://wluw.streamguys.net/listen.pls
