Invisible Places 2017 Call For Submissions

The deadline for the 2017 Invisible Places is November 30, 2016. Its focus is sound, urbanism, sense of place, and acoustic ecology. Submit your papers, proposals for artistic residencies, workshops and soundwalks via EasyChair. The conference dates are April 7–9, and location is Sao Miguel Island, Azores. Keynote speakers are Hildegard Westerkamp and Sam Auinger.… Continue reading Invisible Places 2017 Call For Submissions

World Listening Day 2016 | Sounds Lost & Found | The 606 Soundscape

For World Listening Day 2016, I have organized a cohort of teaching artists and musicians who will transform our experience of The 606 & Bloomingdale Trail soundscape in Chicago this Saturday, Sunday and Monday, July 16–18. Events will actively engage in new ways of outdoor listening and sound making. Please visit the 606 Soundscape blog… Continue reading World Listening Day 2016 | Sounds Lost & Found | The 606 Soundscape

Ecoacoustics Congress 2016, June 6-8

Tuesday, June 7, I am giving a presentation in the Ecoacoustics Congress 2016, held June 6-8 at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Ecoacoustics Congress 2016 will bring together scientists from around the world for an in-depth conference exploring new frontiers of ecoacoustics research and development. Sessions at this year’s conference will feature: Ecoacoustics Environment… Continue reading Ecoacoustics Congress 2016, June 6-8

Balance-Unbalance 2016: Data Science + Eco Action

4:30 PM Monday, May 9, I am giving a presentation titled “Eco-Sensing and the Soundscape” in the Balance-Unbalance 2016: Data Science + Eco Action conference. The 5th edition of Balance-Unbalance (BunB 2016) will be held May 9–11, 2016 in Manizales, Colombia. BunB 2016 is designed “…to use art as a catalyst to explore intersections between… Continue reading Balance-Unbalance 2016: Data Science + Eco Action

Radius Episode 63, SoundTent at Camp Sherwin May 2

On International Dawn Chorus Day I am inviting local citizens to join me at the shoreline of Lake Michigan at 5:00-6:00 a.m. Saturday, May 2. My “SoundTent” will be located on the beach one block east of Sheridan Road, 20 paces past 1205 W Sherwin Avenue, in Chicago.

WFAE NEWS April-June 2015 edition now online

The April-June edition of World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) News Quarterly is now online. My “President’s Report” updates readers about publication of the next Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, and previewed some of the many exciting events concerning artistic and technological responses to impending disasters concerning water and climate at the Balance-Unbalance 2015… Continue reading WFAE NEWS April-June 2015 edition now online

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

Oct 6, EcoMedia Panel at International Sculpture Conference

Time/Date: 10:00—11:30 AM Saturday, October 6 Location: Columbus Auditorium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 280 S. Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60603 During the 23rd International Sculpture Conference I will speak on a panel entitled, EcoMedia: Environmental Science & Technology & Interaction in Public Art. The panel’s moderator is Andrea Polli. The panelists… Continue reading Oct 6, EcoMedia Panel at International Sculpture Conference

AUDIOPARC et lancement de la programmation de l’automne 2012

Andra McCartney and Eric Leonardson speak and lead soundwalks around the Métro de la Concorde, for Audioparc, a series of sonic art events curated by Magali Babin and hosted by Galerie Verticale in Laval, Québec. AUDIOPARC is meant to present new and captivating projects with the bold idea to make Laval a playground for the… Continue reading AUDIOPARC et lancement de la programmation de l’automne 2012