2:30pm MST Friday, October 17th I am giving a talk in the Listenn Symposium on Acoustic Ecologies of the American Southwest Deserts, at Arizona State University. My talk is titled, “Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening,” on the fundamental role of listening in everyday experience, the arts, sciences, and humanities.
Listen online. Presentations will stream live. Dr. Sabine Breitsameter is the keynote speaker at 6:00 pm Thursday, October 16. The full schedule is posted here.
The abstract of my talk:
What is “Ethical Listening”? “Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening” introduces the fundamental role of listening in everyday experience, the arts, sciences, and humanities. As 2014 is the centennial year of the death of “Martha” the last passenger pigeon, a species that once flourished in North America by the billions, and hunted to extinction within less than a century. Ethical listening offers one non-obvious way to balance information with intuition, and reflection, about animal encounters in the urban wilderness, with hope for the possibilities of social and ecological recovery from extinction. Recent global and local activities in sound making and listening offer models for public engagement in soundscape awareness and critical citizenship.