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Happy New Year!
We look forward with you to an exciting year as the WFAE Affiliate organizations develop programs and opportunities for their members. We wish everyone a very Happy New Year.
With this issue we are changing the WFAE Newsletter publication schedule. The Newsletter will now be published every two months. This will allow more time to gather news and resources and make this a better publication for all.
The WFAE Newsletter is an online supplement to Soundscape:The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. The goal is to make available a calendar of events, announcements and latest news from the WFAE Board, WFAE Affiliates, and others related to the field of acoustic ecology.
The success of this newsletter depends upon contributions by WFAE affiliate organizations and members. See the Contributions section on how to submit material to this newsletter.
WFAE Newsletter Publication Dates:
1 March (Deadline for contributions - February,20)
1 May (Deadline for contributions - April, 20)
1 July (Deadline for contributions - June, 20
1 September (Deadline for contributions - August, 20)
1 November (Deadline for contributions - October, 20)
WFAE Board Report
Time to Renew Your Membership. Yearly membership renewals are due by the end of January. Please renew or become a member of a WFAE Affiliate organization for 2005. See membership information and download a membership form from the WFAE Web site.
International Events. WFAE Board has endorsed three events in Europe for 2005. These include:
Soundscape Conference
April 22-24, 2005
Potsdam, Germany
International Congress on Sound and Vibration
July 10-14, 2005
Lisbon, Portugal
Convegno sul Paesaggio Sonoro/Soundscape Conference
Palermo, Italy April 28-30, 2005
For more information check out the Events Section of this newsletter.
WFAE Member Discounts. The EarthEar audio disc catalog is now offering a 10% discount to all WFAE members. Just enter the coupon code "WFAE" on the first page of the online shopping cart. International orders: please remember to use the drop-down menu to select proper shipping charge.
WFAE Affiliate News
ASAE. The December edition of the ASAE newsletter is online. Learn more about this new affiliate of the WFAE.
CASE. The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology is currently requesting proposals for projects (big or small and from any discipline) relating to acoustic ecology and to be realized in Canada. See: Opportunities Section.
Lund Listening. A new multidisciplinary sound centre is being planned at Lund University in Sweden, apparently the first of its kind. Lund University has a solid international reputation within the natural and medical sciences and firmly established institutes in ecology and environmental sciences. The Öresund Region (Southern Sweden and Sealand in Denmark) is said to experience the strongest economic expansion in northern Europe at the moment with an expected increase in railway, highway and air traffic. Including the collected competencies of no less than some 10 universities and colleges in the region will provide an ideal base for truly multidisciplinary research and education in all aspects of a soundscape in change. (Source: WFAE Member Henrik Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden)
Contributions: News from Affiliate organizations is do by the 20th of each month for publication in the next issue of the WFAE Newsletter.
Introducing Your WFAE Board: The WFAE Board is composed of an elected representative from each of the seven international affiliate organizations. Over the coming months we will introduce readers to the elected officers of the WFAE.
Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology Representative Simo Alitalo
Simo Alitalo is a Finnish sound artist and a radio producer. His installations and sound environments have been exhibited in Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Auckland Art Gallery, Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, l'Oel de Poisson in Quebec City, and in Singuhr, Berlin which is one of the major sound art galleries in Europe. He has also exhibited in many international events like Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, Australia, Sound Symposium in St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada, Klangraum-Raumklang festival in Cologne and SoundCulture02, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He is currently working on a large scale outdoor installation for the City of Tampere, that will employ an advanced sound projection and mobile phone technologies.
Since late 1980´s Alitalo has produced radio documentaries, and radio art projects for the Radioatelier unit of Finnish Broadcasting Co (YLE). His works for radio have been aired by ABC and 2SER-FM(Australia), SFB and Deutschland Radio (Germany), RAI (Italy) ORF (Austria). Together with Tuike Alitalo he has produced and curated several different art projects and exhibitions in Finland since 1970's.
Simo Alitalo is an active member of the sound art and acoustic ecology communities. He is founding member of international World forum for the Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology. Alitalo has written and lectured about sound art & theory and soundscape studies. He works as a educator and has taught sound art, sound theory, audiovisual dramaturgy, film sound and radio theory in many Art Schools and Universities in Finland.
Simo Alitalo has studied philosophy, musicology, history of civilization and linguistics at Turku University. He is currently working on his doctorate project in Fine Arts "What do we know by hearing. An artistic research project on sound art" at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland.
Photo: Simo Alitalo at his studio with a detail of Viileaa /Sounds Cool (2003) sound installation. Photo © Simo Alitalo
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