The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) is pleased to announce its Fall Event Series, kicking off with “What If Sound Matters Too: Revisiting the Potential for Healthy Soundscape.” This lecture by Scott Bernstein is co-hosted by The Department of Audio Arts & Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago, and takes place on campus, at 33 E. Congress Parkway, Basement, 7pm Wednesday, Sept. 21. Admission Free.
Scott Bernstein is the President and co-founder of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and his talk will suggest agendas for research, demonstration and local policies that can make healthy soundscapes attainable.

Please visit the MSAE website for full details at http://mwsae.org

The Chicago Phonography concert on Airplay is now available online. It was performed as a live broadcast from 4:30–7:00 p.m., Saturday, July 16

Find the blog post here on WNUR and listen via WNUR’s stream link.

COMING UP: Chicago Phonography performs at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore for World Listening Day on Saturday, July 23. Find more information on the website of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE).

Chicago Phonography is an informal collective that performs with field recordings from around the Chicago land area: www.chicagophonography.org/

“Nature performs, we provide the secretarial services.” R. Murray Schafer

Indiana Dunes Sound Walk, a set by Ignotus the Mage on Flickr.

On Saturday, May 21 I led a soundwalk in Miller Woods at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and World Listening Project. It was a lovely experience with some very interesting people who participated. Above are photos taken one of the soundwalkers, Paul Hertz.

MSAE & WLP members, Jan 23 2011

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The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and World Listening Project’s first meeting of 2011 was held at the venerable Woodlawn Tap in Hyde Park, Chicago.

I have organized a monthly series of meetings for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, featuring three public presentations by Jay Needham, Viv Corringham, and Steve Jones. Please bookmark and return to the 2011 Winter/Spring Schedule page as I will update it when more details become available: http://mwsae.org/?p=1198

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Saturday, October 16, 2:00PM – 4:00PM

Beginning at The Corpse | Green Lantern Gallery this soundwalk engages participants a important facet of the Ukrainian Village/Humboldt Park neighborhood that is often ignored: its soundscape. Contact Eric if you would like to learn more, and visit the MSAE webpage.

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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 International Conference, Ideologies and Ethics in the Uses and Abuses of Sound in Koli, Finland.

The conference runs from June 16-19, 2010. Abstracts, papers, and audio recordings will be available on the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology website.

Download the conference program.

View my slideshow on Flickr.

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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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.