WFAE Up Front News
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Sonic Studios Simon Fraser University |
The World Soundscape Project (WSP) was established as an educational and research group by R. Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Sonic Studios became a resource for many young acoustic-ecologists of the day and continues to serve students on the SUF campus. Shown are two former Schafer graduate students, composers and educators Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp. Photo - Proscenia Archive.
 WFAE Newsletter
The WFAE Newsletter is an online supplement of Soundscape:The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. Our goal is to make available a bimonthly calendar of events, announcements, opportunities, and latest news from the WFAE Board, Affiliates, and others in the field of acoustic ecology.
The success of this newsletter depends upon contributions by WFAE organizations and members. See the Contributions section on how to submit material to this newsletter.
WFAE Newsletter Publication Dates:
1 December (Deadline for contributions - 20 November)
1 January (Deadline for contributions - 20 December)
1 February (Deadline for contributions - 20 January)
WFAE Affiliate News
- The ASAE's New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, continues
its monthly webcast radio program, Giant Ear))) Listen online
on Free103point9 the last Sunday of every month at 7-9 P.M. EST.
- The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE’s New York chapter) is
co-sponsoring An Ear to the Earth, a festival exploring the interaction of
music, sound, the natural world, and man-made environments, scheduled for March 17-26, 2006 in New York, with a pre-festival full-day symposium and concert on December 11, 2005.
The festival, brainchild of Joel Chadabe of the Electronic Music Foundation, will include concerts by David Rothenberg, Steven Miller, Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp, and others, installations by Annea Lockwood, Thomas Gerwin, and others, soundwalks, recordings featuring UNESCO Young Digital Artists from around the world, and a website. See EMF Productions for updates.
WFAE Board Report
WFAE International Meeting 2006
November 2 - 5, 2006
Hirosaki, Japan
Web: http://www.saj.gr.jp/en/hirosaki2006.html
Organized by the Japanese Association for Sound Ecology (JASE)
Co-hosted and co-supported by Hirosaki University and Soundscape Association Japan (SAJ) Lectures - Paper presentations - Discussions - Soundwalks & Excursions.
Within 1 to 2 hours drive from Hirosaki, in Northern Japan, one can visit villages and communities whose residents still keep traditional lives and habits.
For information contact Professor Hiramatsu at Kyoto University
email: hkozo@asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp or the WFAE.
WFAE Flyer. A new flyer listing WFAE Affiliate organizations and services has been prepared and will be distributed at WFAE endorsed events around the world in 2005.
WFAE Membership. Become a member of a WFAE Affiliate organization for 2005. See membership information and download a membership form from the WFAE Web site.
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
Introducing The Journal Editorial Committee:
It takes many people to put together the biannual Soundscape: The Journal of Communication. This issue we introduce Harold Clark, Editorial Committee Member, and Andrea Schmidt who is responsible for layout design.
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Harold Clark, (born in Nebraska, USA) studied music at the University of California, San Diego, the Musikkonservatoriet i Oslo, Norway, with graduate research at the University of York, England. Working as a studio musician and sound designer, Harold launched his compositional career in Norway during the 1970’s, working with Arne Nordheim, Olav Thommessen and Mauricio Kagel. At the Henie-Onstad Artcentre, Harold co-founded Norway’s first computerized music centre NSEM where he directed the studio.
His works, lectures & broadcasts have appeared widely in Europe & North America. He has worked with children’s music education in the 1980’s in England and Sweden. Harold’s book, "Steps to an Ecology of Contemporary Music", is currently being edited for re-publication. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. |
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Designer Andrea Schmidt (left) talks with Hildi Westerkamp about the Fall issue of Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology.
Andrea was born in Kitchener, Canada, to a middle-class family of German descent from the former Soviet Union. She studied English professional writing at the University of Waterloo and eventually devoted herself to book and journal design, typography, art and playing the musical saw.
Currently living in Vancouver, Canada, Andrea has worked at the University of British Columbia as a communications designer for a number of years designing student-related publications and improving her craft with an enormously talented team of communications professionals.
Design projects range from the cover of a lively anthology about traffic entitled Traffic Life to print materials for local non-profit and volunteer-run Spartacus Books. |
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