John Cage’s 100th Birthday Celebration

John_Cage_100th_Birthday_Participation_FormJohn Cage, who is one of the most important composers of the 20th Century, was born on September 5, 1912. Hundreds of concerts and other kinds of events are happening throughout 2012 in celebration of Cage’s 100th birthday.

You are invited to participate in a special celebration of John Cage’s 100th birthday—a worldwide celebration of Cage’s composition 4’33”. If you’d like to participate in this celebration of John Cage’s 100th birthday, please send the World Listening Project an email at worldlistening@gmail.com, with John Cage in the subject line. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Please download the Participation Form.

Sounding Out! Blog’s World Listening Month Feature


The Sounding Out! blog made July their “World Listening Month”, and a special podcast focusing on World Listening Day goes out on Wednesday, July 18.

12 artists, scientists, and researchers were interviewed and heard in the podcast. They are, in order of appearance:

 

*Excerpt from Hildegard Westerkamp’s opening keynote for Crossing Listening Paths, the 2011 conference of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

The podcast was produced by Monica Ryan, Eric Leonardson, and Tom Haigh at ARU Chicago.

Check out Sounding Out! and stay tuned for more.

 

2012 World Listening Day

The 2012 World Listening Day happens on Wednesday, July 18th. The purposes of World Listening Day are:

  • to celebrate different ways we can focus on our soundscape (sonic environment);
  • to raise awareness about the acoustic ecology movement, including ideas regarding how noise pollution can be reduced; and
  • to introduce new educational initiatives and community events related to listening and acoustic ecology.

Participation in the 2012 World Listening Day focuses on the aforementioned goals, which could include listening parties, listening to one’s soundscape in private, private or public soundwalks, public forums about acoustic ecology, and more. What would you like to do on the 2012 World Listening Day? Events could happen on Wednesday, July 18th. However, if another day during that week (July 15-21) would work better with your schedule, that would be fine.

World Listening Day happens annually on July 18th—the birthdate of R. Murray Schafer, a Canadian composer who established the World Soundscape Project. Its research laid the foundations for what became known as Soundscape Studies and Acoustic Ecology.

Dozens of organizations and more than a thousand people from six continents have participated in World Listening Day so far — on the inaugural World Listening Day in 2010, and the second WLD last year. Both were great successes, and we’re hoping to have more people and organizations participate this year.

Invitation: Listen To The Earth

The World Listening Project

What do you hear when you listen to the Earth? The World Listening Project invites you to participate in “Listen to the Earth,” a global event that happens during Earth Week (April 22-28, 2012). Listen to the Earth activities include listening to one’s soundscape, field recordings, soundwalks, performances, other practices that pertain to acoustic ecology, and more. Please email worldlistening at gmail dot com with ‘Listen to the Earth’ in the subject line if you would like to participate.

Information about Listen to the Earth can be found on the Earth Day Network website, and you can click on this link to download the participation form: Listen to the Earth 2012 participation form

Green Field Recordings | O Colecionador de Sons | World Listening Day (2010-2011)

The annual World Listening Day has excited a global community of people interested in sounds and field recording. Green Field Recordings is a netlabel in Portugal run by Luís Antero, who released a compilation of field recordings from around the world. These were broadcast on Antero’s “O Colecionador de Sons” radio show for World Listening Day in 2010 and 2011. O Colecionador de Sons is a Portuguese radio program devoted entirely to the world of field recording, curated by Antero.

cover imageGFR 033 VA | O Colecionador de Sons | World Listening Day (2010-2011) features 34 tracks by 17 field recordists from Australia, Portugal, Egypt, France, India, Lithuania, Spain, Germany, United States, and the Czech Republic. World Listening Project Director, Eric Leonardson wrote liner notes for the release, which is free to download under a Creative Commons license at http://greenfieldrecordings.yolasite.com/audio-2012.php

Call for Proposals: The Global Composition

Deadline for submissions extended to March 30, 2012

 

We are looking forward to your artistic, scholarly or scientific proposals for our event:

The Global Composition
Conference on Sound, Media and the Environment
Darmstadt/Media Campus Dieburg (Hochschule Darmstadt), July 25-28, 2012

Info: http://www.the-global-composition-2012.org/index.html
Call: http://www.the-global-composition-2012.org/call.html

Contact: fabienne.rudolph@stud.h-da.de

Deadline for submission: March 30, 2012
Notification: April 20, 2012

Proposals are invited for roundtable discussions, workshops, papers/posters, applied and artistic contributions, relating, but not limited to the conference’s main focus. The conference’s official language will be English.

Providing a specially positioned “Next Generation”-thread, the conference is very interested, to create a forum for young scholars, scientists, artists as well as for students, and encourages them to send in their proposals. Please send abstracts for roundtable discussions, papers/posters, workshops & proposals for compositions or other artistic contributions by March 1, 2012.

As keynote presenters we expect Bill Fontana, R. Murray Schafer, Hildegard Westerkamp et al.

The conference venue is located near the Frankfurt airport in beautiful historic surroundings, with attractive landscapes, very good wine, culinary highlights, and good conditions for exchange and conviviality. All this makes, too, a central starting point for your summerbreak, be it locally, nationally or internationally.

We hope to welcome you in summer on our Media Campus Dieburg of Hochschule Darmstadt.

Best,
Sabine Breitsameter

The conference is supported by the “Understanding Canada”-programme/Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Embassy of Canada Berlin, in collaboration with Darmstädter Ferienkurse/Darmstadt Summercourse, Cork Institute of Technology/School of Music, Ireland and endorsed by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

Project Direction:
Sabine Breitsameter
Professor for Sound and Media Culture
Media Arts and Sciences
and
Claudia Soeller-Eckert
Professor for Basics of Media Design
& Interactive Media Design

Postal address:
Hochschule Darmstadt
Faculty of Media
Haardtring 100
64295 Darmstadt

Visitors’ address:
Mediencampus
Max-Planck-Str. 2
D-64807 Dieburg

Call for Papers on Soundscape in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) is seeking papers for a “Special Issue on Soundscape
and its Applications.”

Deadline: January 15, 2012

[Quoted from the call]

The general topic of soundscape is recognized as one that has consistently generated new and innovative ways of thinking about noise control and if [sic] the interaction between sound and people. It has a significant practical relevance, in terms of policies, as well as in the planning and design of new living areas or in reshaping existing areas.

Topics of interest include whatever is involved in the developments of soundscapes:

·          Economics

·          Noise-policy standards

·          Combined effects

·          Cross-cultural studies

·          Perceptual and physical parameters (such as the characteristics of sounds and survey site selection)

·          Multi-sectoral environmental health impact assessment

·          Development of environmental zoning

·          Citizen involvement

·          Preservation of quiet areas

Papers are encouraged that address “sensitive areas” and which offer new insights into the existing annoyance data and new integrative research strategies for the design of “supportive environments.”

Please download the PDF for instructions on How to Submit Papers, Deadlines and Relevant Dates, publication guidelines, and Contact for the Guest Editors, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and Jian Kang. [NB: the JASA submission link in this document for the Peer X-Press site http://asa.aip.org/jasa.html currently redirects to the ASA main page.] Download the Call for Papers (PDF) from http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/ASALIB-home/corp/pdf/jasa/sca.pdf

 

The Seattle Phonographers Union explore the sounds and noises of the Summer season

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The Sounds Of Summer
August 10, 2011 12:05 PM

Now that summer has finally arrived, what does it sound like? The rhythmic spray and twist of the lawn sprinkler. The splash of kids in the wading pool. The clink of ice in an afternoon cocktail. Does summer in the Puget Sound region sound distinctly different from summer in other places?

The Seattle Phonographers Union join us once again to explore the sounds and noises of the summer season.

 

Guest(s)

Steve Peters is a composer, sound artist and producer who also oversees the Wayward Music Series in the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford. He has been a member of the Seattle Phonographers Union since 2004. He recently returned from a three–week artist residency in a tiny village in the mountains of central Portugal.

Dale Lloyd has been a sound artist, label owner, graphic designer, producer, musician and a visual artist. In 2001, he founded and/OAR, a recording label focused on presenting unique environmental recordings, sound art, avant–garde and electronic music.

Perri Lynch is a Seattle–based artist. She enjoys recording in challenging situations, while sailing and traveling. Favorite recording sites include South India, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands and the Amazon Rain Forest. Her favorite instrument is a hand–held compass.

Steve Barsotti is a sound artist, instrument inventor, improviser and educator. Steve is one of the original members of the Seattle Phonographers Union and has been performing with them for over six years. He is also currently the academic director of audio design technology at the Art Institute of Seattle.

 

Chicago Phonography concert and soundwalk at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and World Listening Project continues its partnership with the National Park Service and Sixth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival to host a concert by Chicago Phonography and a Miller Woods soundwalk on Saturday, October 8 at the Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Location: Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education
100 N. Lake Street, Gary IN 46439.
(Admission Free)
Time: 1–3 p. m. (Central Time), Saturday, Oct. 8

Contact:

Ranger Julianne Larsen, Telephone: (219) 395-1821 (Tuesday - Saturday)

MSAE contact, Eric Leonardson info@mwsae.org
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Chicago Phonography, contact Chad Clark chadearly@gmail.com
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Explore the natural soundscape of Miller Woods Trail with a soundwalk led by the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. Enjoy a surprising concert of environmental sounds by Chicago Phonography, a collective of artists who gather audio recordings of Chicago and Gary soundscapes. Using a four-channel playback system, Chicago Phonography members collectively mix their recordings in live, improvisational performances. In a sense, Chicago Phonography substitutes microphones and field recordings for musical instruments to create new and dramatic soundscapes that surround and engage listeners in surprising ways; using only real world sounds. Chicago Phonography will host an “open mic” session for new members. As a part of the Sixth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, sounds collected by the National Park Service will be featured: whale sounds in Glacier Bay, the dawn chorus of Isle Royale in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and forests of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Useful Websites:

Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) http://mwsae.org
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore http://www.nps.gov/indu/

South Shore Line/Northern Indiana Commuter Train http://www.nictd.com
MSAE Google Map (driving directions and useful locations) http://tinyurl.com/3ucgquw

Transportation:

The Douglas Center is located just a short five block (approx. 15 minute) walk along Lake Street north from the Miller train station. The ride from Millennium Station in downtown Chicago to Miller takes one hour and eight minutes. A limited amount of car parking is available across the street from the Douglas Center. For driving directions and useful locations visit the MSAE Google Map.
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