Events Calendar and Announcements
This page provides information about organizational activities including workshops, conferences, broadcasts, and other projects of interest to those in the field of acoustic-ecology.
December -2004
- Disappear. Robert Jarvis
- SONIC ARTS - London
March - 2005
- School of Sound symposium - London
April - 2005
July - 2005
- International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 2005
Summer - 2005
- The Acoustic Ecology Research Group Conference, 2005
On-Going
- Rochester - Soundscape Society monthly meetings
- DRIFT Radio - ongoing online broadcasts
- "Cathode Immersions" Prepared and Improvised Radio
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See Also: Sound Science Conference listings posted on the Acoustic Ecology Institute web site.
DECEMBER, 2005
Disappear. Robert Jarvis' installation Disappear, aims to focus listeners' attention on the transient nature of the soundscape. It is showing at the Royal Museum & Art Gallery in Canterbury from 4th November to 2nd December.
SONIC ARTS The State of Affairs II: Listening to Vision - Looking at Sound. One day symposium organised by the Sonic Arts programme, Middlesex University. Saturday 4 December 10am - 4.30pm (registration from 9am), £12 (concessions £6) Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1, nearest Tube Holborn.
For more details: WEB INFO
The perceptual processes make the aesthetic, ideological, conceptual, etc., issues involved in the production of an artwork happen: listening and viewing realises the material expression. At the same time, the perceptual process is manipulated by the artwork: its materiality, its concepts and contents, as well as its curatorial management and discursive context influence our perception.
The assumption is that the perceptual processes pertaining to a particular expression influence our modes of production, the perceptual engagement in the work as well as the discourses surrounding these practices. This symposium seeks to investigate the similarities and differences of a sonic or a visual engagement and how these are theorised in concurrent discourses of Visual, Sonic and Audio-Visual Arts.
The invited speakers introduce and debate their own practices and research in reference to the relationship between seeing and hearing - listening and viewing. The practice and theorisation of these two modes of engagement are scrutinised to consider the sources and consequences of their distinction.
Inspired by the range of ideas and practices discussed last year, this year's programme aims to again include presentations of papers, performances and documentation of artist's work, etc. There is no one particular aim to these proceedings apart from the intention to debate and expand concepts, practices and histories via a critical discussion and presentation of material in relation to listening and viewing art.
The symposium is divided into a morning and an afternoon session. Both these sessions are followed by a panel discussion, which aims to encourage the audience to participate with their own questions and opinions.
MARCH, 2005
School of Sound symposium London
30 March - 2 April 2005
Email sos@schoolofsound.co.uk
Web:www.schoolofsound.co.uk
The 6th School of Sound symposium will be held in London at the Purcell Room from 30 March - 2 April 2005.
Full programme details will be announced in Autumn 2004.
The School of Sound is a four-day symposium exploring the creative aspects of sound with the moving image, and is aimed at everyone working with sound in the creative industries. Each event attracts approximately 250 people coming from over twenty countries to hear practitioners and artists working at the highest creative levels in media and the arts. Our audience comprises producers, directors, editors, sound recordists, sound designers, mixers, composers, radio producers, writers, architects, poets - just about anyone who works with sound.
Since its inception in 1998, the School of Sound has raised the profile of sound in audio-visual media through this unequalled series of presentations that integrate practice with theory, and art with entertainment. For those who work in film, television, radio, commercials or multimedia, this event provides the perfect complement to their technical expertise.
Through master-class presentations the programme explores the creative use of sound, particularly in relation to the moving image. Speakers have included editors Walter Murch and Roberto Perpignani; Hollywood sound designers Skip Lievsay, Randy Thom and Ren Klyce; composers Louis Andriessen, Carter Burwell, Michael Nyman and Simon Fisher Turner; theorists Michel Chion, Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey; filmmakers Mani Kaul and Peter Kubelka; artists Christina Kubisch and Hans Peter Kuhn; radio producers Piers Plowright and Gregory Whitehead. In 2003 we featured the sound team from Dogme 95, plus Polish master animator Jerzy Kucia. We have also produced video interviews with Nic Roeg, David Lynch, documentarist Michael Grigsby, sound producer François Musy, and Owe Svensson, the sound mixer who created the soundtrack for Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Sacrifice'.
The School of Sound is not a commercial training course nor an academic conference. You will not learn equipment or software. It will, however, teach you new perspectives on the work you do and the creative processes of contemporary sound production. For further information about the School of Sound, to add your postal address or to be taken off our mailing list, email sos@schoolofsound.co.uk or visit www.schoolofsound.co.uk. We apologise for double mailings.
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APRIL, 2005
Soundscape Conference
FKL Sponosred /WFAE Endorsed Event
April 22-24, 2005
Potsdam, Germany
Details to be announced
Contact: Forum Klanglandschaft
Web: http://vereine.rol3.com/klanglandschaft/
Hammerstrasse 14, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
Fax +41 61 691 0064
Email:l.schwarz@rol3.com
WFAE affiliate Forum Klanglandschaft (FKL), in collaboration with Potsdam University, is planning a Soundscape Symposium for April 22-24, 2005. The theme is Sounds, Authority and Landscape - Pathways of the Soundscape Changing in one Region since the Beginning of Christianisation"(On the Way to a Brandenburg Soundscape Cartography-Sounding Testimonies of Authority and Impotence, of Awakening and Contemplation).
FKL members, members of the new regional Klangforum Brandenburg, and soundscape interested students and colleagues of the Potsdam University, welcome conference participants to Potsdam in the year of the millennium of Brandenburg Christianisation. Additional details will be published in the near future.
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JULY, 2005
International Congress on Sound and Vibration
WFAE Endorsed Event
July 10-14, 2005
Lisbon, Portugal
Very Early Registration 15 December 2004
Web Info: http://www.icsv12.ist.utl.pt/
Contact: E-mail: icsv12@ist.utl.pt
The Twelfth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, sponsored by the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, July 10-14, 2005. A session on Acoustic Ecology and Acoustic Communication by Nigel Frayne, Chair, WFAE Board, is featured.
A concert titled "Lisboa Reloaded - Audio-visual projections of The White City" will be also be a part of this event (details at www.realambient.de click on NEWS)
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SUMMER, 2005
The Acoustic Ecology Research Group
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Public Conference - Summer, 2005 TBA
E-mail: Dr. Marcia Epstein epstein@ucalgary.ca
The Acoustic Ecology Research Group (AERG) at the University of Calgary, active since 2001, is sponsored by the Faculty of Environmental Design and by Thibodeau's Hearing Centres, a chain of audiology clinics in Alberta. Members share the plans and results of their research projects in a collaborative forum. They do so because of a belief that Acoustic Ecology is by nature an interdisciplinary field that can best be understood by the collaboration of specialists and by the development of perspectives that encompass aspects of the arts, sciences, and social sciences.
Group members are engineers, musicians, architects, audiologists, and academic researchers from the fields of communication, cognitive psychology, musicology, and nursing. Their recent activities include projects on the noise control industry, the effects of traffic noise on elderly drivers, and the philosophical development of Acoustic Ecology in relation to Environmental Studies.
The AERG is currently developing a program of public education. Since Alberta is home to the Canadian oil industry and Calgary is experiencing a construction boom, recent efforts have focused on issues of noise measurement and control and especially on Low Frequency Noise (LFN), a byproduct of the drilling process and of airports, highways, and construction. It is known to affect health, causing headaches, dizziness, and even alterations of heart rhythm in sensitive individuals. Control of LFN is problematic because existing deciBel scales do not measure it accurately.
The AERG hosted a provincial conference on LFN in 2002, with 68 participants from a variety of perspectives: noise control technicians and engineers, public health workers, architects, and industry managers. Discussions about LFN measurement scales are ongoing, and a publication is being developed.
The AERG's next public conference will be held in the summer of 2005, in conjunction with the Alberta Energy Utilities Board. It will focus on the public and individual health issues associated with noise, and will either precede or follow the conference of the Canadian Acoustical Society so that participants are able to attend both. For more information on the conference or the group, please contact Dr. Marcia Epstein, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary (epstein@ucalgary.ca).
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ON-GOING
Rochester Soundscape Society
Rochester, New York, USA
All are welcome at the meetings of Rochester Soundscape Society, First Tuesday of every month, Maplewood YMCA, 6:30 pm, 25 Driving Park Ave., Rochester NY 14613. Our main focus is reducing noise.
DRIFT Radio
http://www.mediascot.org/drift
DRIFT - an exploration of sound art and experimental music featuring radio broadcasts, moving image, publications, and live events. DRIFT is a platform for artists from Scotland and beyond, a gateway to these emerging cultural forms. DRIFT will take place throughout 2004.
To listen to the stream, and for further information visit the DRIFT web site at http://www.mediascot.org/drift
"Cathode Immersions" Prepared and Improvised Radio
Sydney Australia.
On Air Broadcast: 12pm -1.30 thurs Sydney 2SER 107.3
Streaming Online: 12pm -1.30 thurs (Sydney Time) www.2SER.com
Website: www.dumphuck.com/cathode
Email: cathodeimmersions@2ser.com
Since starting out in 2002, Cathode Immersions has developed its own approach to improvised and prepared radio - combining compositions, field recordings of Sydney City and surrounding national parks with a realtime remixing of 'free to air' television into a pulsing acoustic space. Originally the intention was to alter the experience of late night television by providing a new context, but as time has passed increasingly the aesthetics of improvised collaboration and imaginative listening have developed into a coherent aesthetic and we have a much stronger sense of creating space. The introduction of a weekly themes has meant that as well as live drones, audio mulching and instrumentation, we've been increasingly able to introduce our own field recordings, sounds of electromagnetic phenomena, recordings by acoustic ecologists and established field recordists, and generally take the television 'outside'.
We're always happy to play recordings from around the world, and interested in collaborations, especially from artists working within Acoustic Ecology, please feel free to contact us at cathodeimmersions@2ser.com.
"Personally I think for the late night listening pleasure of curious people, I would highly recommend this programming. What is there that can be more pleasurable to listen to, than the sound of a soft rain in the city outside? It is such a pleasure to just sit and listen, but in the busy lives of people, often there is not enough time to just stay in one place to appreciate that background. I'm very impressed with your methodology, and ideas. I would imagine that people don't think about how much work actually goes into making such sounds. The actual process of transforming the high-tech dribble which comes out of the television, into something more simple and 'easy' or 'uneasy' to listen to, requires significant thought and effort. But then you can take a simple sound such as a rainy evening and broad cast this sound 'as is' to the delight of people who are willing to make the time to listen." (Email from Simon Henry)
Team Cathode:
Adam Hulbert: Composer and AFAE member, currently involved in postgraduate research on 'Implosive Listening', based within the School of Social Ecology at University of Western Sydney.
Sandy McLeod: Tai Chi instructor and CDJ for cathode, follows in the footsteps of his father Jim McLeod, Sydney on-air jazz icon. Sandy is about to relocate to China, and is available and interested in further broadcast collaborations in Shanghai.
Mark Saunders: Sound Artist, Violinist and Ceramicist, starts permanently with Cathode this month (August 2004)
Adam Zielonka: Composer responsible for the recent Duplex Project [http://www.dumphuck.com/duplex/], dual broadcast with Sydney's 2SER and Antenna Munster Radio in Berlin.
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