‘Our Sonic Playground’ Journal of Urban Cultural Studies

My research article on urban soundscape awareness for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now available online. “‘Our Sonic Playground’: A model for active engagement in urban soundscapes” is part of special section that “…engages with the idea of activating a ‘sonic turn’ in urban cultural studies scholarship, in part through the evocation of… Continue reading ‘Our Sonic Playground’ Journal of Urban Cultural Studies

What’s New For July 2014

Life and art continues to keep me busy well into the summer. This July, or what remains of it has me doing: WFAE President’s Report World Listening Day Invisible Places | Sounding Cities Sounding Out! Podcast #32: The World Listening Update – 2014 Edition Articular Facet Residency at Ragdale 25 Years In Wicker Park, Moving Out… Continue reading What’s New For July 2014

On World Listening Day 2014 – Sounding Out!

I have a new post about the annual World Listening Day on the Sounding Out! sound studies blog this week. Plus, stay tuned for a new World Listening Day podcast, created with Tom Haigh and Monica Ryan and due out this month. This podcast features Sabine Breitsameter and Barry Truax.

Gabriola Speaker Series – Transcripts of International Soundscape Symposium

In June 2009 I was honored to be invited to speak about the World Listening Project at the 4th International Soundscape Retreat & Symposium: Negotiating Space/Place In the Changing Soundscape, organized by the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE). Recently, CASE published transcripts of our presentations on their updated website. My talk as well as… Continue reading Gabriola Speaker Series – Transcripts of International Soundscape Symposium

Ways of Listening, Figures of Thought: A Festschrift for R. Murray Schafer on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

While living in Amherst, MA and traveling in Europe this spring, I co-edited a 72-page book with Sabine Breitsameter, entitled Ways of Listening, Figures of Thought: A Festschrift for R. Murray Schafer On the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Published in July by Hochschule Darmstadt, the Festschrift collects statements from 25 internationally esteemed authors, composers,… Continue reading Ways of Listening, Figures of Thought: A Festschrift for R. Murray Schafer on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

Upcoming concerts in Europe June 8–15, 2010

Eric Leonardson & Ignaz Schick at Altes Finanzamt Tue, June 08 @ 10:00 PM CESTEric Leonardson (Chicago) – springboardIgnaz Schick (Berlin) – turntable Altes Finanzamt Schönstedtstraße 7 Berlin DE 12043A 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… Continue reading Upcoming concerts in Europe June 8–15, 2010

CASE 4th International Soundscape Retreat & Symposium

speaking at the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE)’s 4th International Soundscape Retreat & Symposium: Negotiating Space/Place In the Changing Soundscape