Category: Conferences

Oct. 16-17, Listen(n) Symposium: Acoustic Ecologies of the American Southwest Deserts

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.… Continue reading Oct. 16-17, Listen(n) Symposium: Acoustic Ecologies of the American Southwest Deserts

October 2014 WFAE President’s Report

As President of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) reporting for its online newsletter is one of my routine tasks. My President’s Report report for the October-December 2014 WFAE Quarterly News announces: Administrative changes on the WFAE Board Upcoming conferences Review of July’s WFAE-endorsed Invisible Places | Sounding Cities symposium in Viseu, Portugal In… Continue reading October 2014 WFAE President’s Report

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

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

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

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