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
Category: Acoustic Ecology
July 2014 WFAE President’s Report
One of my regular tasks as President of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) is reporting for its online newsletter, the WFAE Quarterly News. Contents of my July-September 2014 President’s Report: Update on publication of the annual Soundscape: The Journal for Acoustic Ecology Recent and upcoming conferences WFAE leadership update and information on operations… Continue reading July 2014 WFAE President’s Report
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
Sound In the Land Festival & Conference – June 5–8, 2014
Sound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment Thursday, June 5 – Sunday, June 8, 2014 Sound In the Land “…is a Festival/Conference of Mennonites and music scheduled for June 5 – 8, 2014 at Conrad Grebel/University of Waterloo. This event will seek to explore and discover new ways of hearing the earth,… Continue reading Sound In the Land Festival & Conference – June 5–8, 2014
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology Events in May 2014
The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology has two events coming up in late May that I am participating in. 1:00pm Saturday, May 24 Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education 100 N. Lake Street Gary IN 46403 Monica Ryan leads a soundwalk in Miller Woods in the Indiana Dunes National Lake Shore. Meet us at… Continue reading Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology Events in May 2014
On Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening for City Creatures blog
Just published on the City Creatures blog, my words on acoustic ecology and “ethical listening.” This blog post coincides with the Forum on Ethics and Nature, where I will be guiding a morning soundwalk this Friday, May 2, through Mary Mix McDonald Woods at the Chicago Botanic Garden (registration required). I will also lead a soundwalk through… Continue reading On Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening for City Creatures blog
Soundwalk for “Ethics of Recovery and Loss” at Chicago Botanical Garden
6:45am, Friday, May 2, 2014 Forum on Ethics & Nature: A Cascade of Loss, An Ethics of Recovery I lead a soundwalk for the Forum on Ethics and Nature, a symposium co-hosted by the Center for Humans and Nature and the Chicago Botanic Garden. My soundwalk in the Mary Mix McDonald Woods has a special… Continue reading Soundwalk for “Ethics of Recovery and Loss” at Chicago Botanical Garden
Saturday, March 22 – 3WDS14 – New York
3WDS14 – NEW YORK NODE – EAR TO THE EARTH I have a new electroacoustic composition premiering in the “Hydrosonics” program, part of the World Water Wheel on Saturday, March 22 in New York.
Invisible Places | Sounding Cities Symposium
I am working on the international scientific committee for Invisible Places | Sounding Cities, a symposium on sound, urbanism, and sense of place happening 18–20 July, 2014 in Viseu, Portugal. The call for submissions was announced January 13. Three sections will be featured with a keynote by Jean-Paul Thibaud from CRNS at CRESSON for the… Continue reading Invisible Places | Sounding Cities Symposium
Urban Soundscapes & Critical Citizenship
I will be giving a presentation in Urban Soundscapes & Critical Citizenship, March 27th and 28th, at the University of Limerick. Titled “Our Sonic Playground: A Model For Active Engagement in Urban Soundscape,” my focus will be on recent events that engage public participation actively in the urban soundscape. Urban Soundscapes and Critical Citizenship poster… Continue reading Urban Soundscapes & Critical Citizenship