Volume 3, Number 2
WFAE Up Front News
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Quiet Listening - Proscenia Archive |
"I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of muisc that
makes its principal components deaf." Pete Townshend
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Welcome
This newsletter is an online supplement of Soundscape:The Journal of Acoustic Ecology published by the World Forum for 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 affiliates and members. See the Contributions section on how to submit material.
WFAE Newsletter Publication Dates:
1 May (Contribution Deadline: 20 April)
1 July (Contribution Deadline: 20 June)
Newsletter Archive.
Back issues of the WFAE Newsletter are archive online. Click Here to access this collection dating back 2004.
WFAE Affiliate News
- NYSAE's Soundmap Project. The New York Soundmap is featured in an online exhibition of web-based projects employing new media tools to both conceptually and formally address different possibilities for transmission art online curated by free103point9 and Rhizome. A public presentation in conjunction with the exhibition will take place at Participant, Inc. in New York on March 28, 2006.
- NYSAE's Fund Raising Project. 8 sound works is a compilation CDR curated and organized by Ben Owen on behalf of the NY Society for Acoustic Ecology. The artists assembled on this disc took part in a live radio broadcast event called Tune(outside))) that was organized by transmission arts organization free103point9 on July 4, 2005. Broadcast locally from free103’s “Wave Farm” in Acra, NY, the broadcast was also streamed over the web to an international audience. The CDR is a benefit for the NYSAE. Discs are $10, mailed for $11 domestic USA, and $14 rest of world. To order with paypal and to find more information about the participants, see: www.nyacousticecology.org
WFAE Board Report
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World Forum for Acoustic Ecology 2006
November 2 - 6, 2006
Hirosaki University International Music Centre
Hirosaki, Japan |
The WFAE Board encourages member participation in this year's International Conference of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. The event this year will be held this November in Hirosaki, Japan. The event is beging organized by the Japanese Association for Sound Ecology (JASE) and is co-hosted and co-supported by Hirosaki University and the Soundscape Association Japan (SAJ). This event will include lectures - paper presentations - discussions - soundwalks and excursions.
The conference will be held at the Hirosaki University's International Music Center (HIMC) which was established in 2005. Many of the events will take place in the Center's beautiful auditorium facility.
Within 1 to 2 hours drive from Hirosaki, in Northern Japan, one can visit villages and communities whose residents still keep traditional lives and values.
For information visit the conference web site:
http://www.saj.gr.jp/en/hirosaki/WFAE2006.html
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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
WFAE Board Representatives:
