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People and Projects This section is devoted to individuals who are actively engaged in a variety of endeavors within the field of acoustic ecology. We welcome news of projects related to the ecology of sound. Seminars on Hearing Protection Also on April 20 Elliott will be talking to the monthly meeting of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology at the League for the Hard of Hearing at 50th and Broadway. Audiograms (hearing tests) are also available for those who arrive early, around 5:30 pm. For additional information, contact Elliott by going to his web site www.e-a-r.com/hearingconservation and clicking on Ask the Expert. Crow Recording. Michael Peters has put on his web site a new 46 minutes mp3 streaming field recording of a flock of crows at Gaia House, Devon, recorded by Rainer Roeingh on new year's day 1998-99. Michael notes it is a wonderful winter soundscape. Taiwan Soundscapes. Yannick Dauby notes that a french label will soon release a CD of field recordings he made in Taiwan the past two summers. It is called TW04-05, and you can find a presentation of this project on line. Listening To The Soundscapes Of Taiwan. Tsai-Wei Chen, of Taiwan, would like to let people know that after doing a soundwalk in Taiwan on 26 November 2005, sounds recorded by 6 participants have been made into CDs. The 6 participants had different backgrounds which included that of artist, business single women, a mother and so on. For some, who could not come to the soundwalk, they recorded sounds that happened on the same day or in a recent day to submit to the CD. Most of the sounds are unprocessed. The main purpose of the CD is to invite people of different background to share their experiences of listening to sounds of Taiwan. They use whatever audio recorder that is available in their daily lives. Because of their background differences, sounds they choose to record are different, too. For example, the mother recorded her conversation with her children while looking at two dogs swimming in the lake. The business woman recorded sounds of herself sharing a late supper with her colleagues in the office. Because she was not familiar with the audio recording function of her digital camera, she also recorded herself shouting 'how should I turn it off?' while struggling with the camera! For more detail, please see: http://blog.yam.com/etaiwansoundscape or contact Tsai-Wei Chen through wei224@mac.com Richard Bowers has posted an article about a mixed media piece with sound which was exhibited this February at the Washington Gallery,Cardiff, Wales. The exhibitionwas entitled "Reworked" and was centred on recycling materials to produce art. His proposal was that audio recordings are a form of recycling and so the sonic content was recycled from the same piano that was physically reworked into the sculptural relief. An audio MP3 sample is available online.
Personal CD-release subscription to Francisco López's soundwork: I am often asked by people interested in buying some of my releases that they cannot find in their area or have trouble finding online (or, in some cases, because they would like to get them directly from me). I decided to start an initiative as a response to this, to make my soundwork widely and more easily available to those who might be interested on it. This is also part of a current struggle of mine to support my sound activities with the work itself. I have been working as an independent composer / sound artist over the past twenty-five years and I am still at odds with being able to support myself -I guess because this kind of soundwork will ever hardly appeal beyond the small community of passionate listeners of so-called 'experimental' music. I am thus offering a CD-release subscription, on a personal basis and based on terms, only to those who might explicitely be interested in my work. A personal CD-release subscription term includes:
One subscription term: 80 euros Payment options: PayPal (only EUR, USD, CAD, AUD, GBP, JPY), International Postal Money Order, Western Union, or Bank Transfer (only EUR). No Cheques, sorry. Please ask first for details on these different options. Approximate release pace: 40 CD releases over the last 10 years, roughly 4 a year. Right now there are 10 new upcoming CDs in different phases of Subscriptions, queries, etc.: franciscolopez@csi.com
k146 | Cartographie sonore autour du Taurion "Kdi dctb 146" is a sound art, sound cartography project and study of the soundscape around the Taurion river which takes its source on the plateau de Millevaches, close to Gentioux (France). This project began on august 2005; the end is programmed around september 2006. This project breaks up into several phases of recording programmed according to 16 geographical areas covering the totality of the river. This blog offers a visibility on the current work (With the resumption of 10 years of sound and photographic archives see toy.bizarre on ingeos web site) and offers the possibility too to download some audio extracts of the recording sessions (phonography. The whole work will be compiled (Autumn 2006) in a form which remains to be defined (sound Atlas or electroacoustic composition?) according to the matters which will be collected. More informations about Mr. Peyronnet's work can be found at: http://www.ingeos.org/Biographie.html
SoundasArt: a forum concerning the emerging artform sound art. A new discussion group, SoundasArt has be set-up by Bill Thompson in Scotland. All topics related to sound art welcome including critical theory, art/music history, phenomenology, psychoacoustics, and other related fields (experimental composition, field recording, installations, technology, software etc.) Steven Miller - ASAE Other Voices, Other Sounds Radio Program Hosting Steven M. Miller (ASAE Representative) is co-host and organizer for the weekly radio show "Other Voices, Other Sounds" (OVOS) broadcast on Sundays 9:00-11:00 PM (US mountain time zone) on KUNM 89.9 FM in Albuquerque, NM. Steven welcomes submissions of commercial or non-commercial audio CDs for consideration for programming Symbiosis Radio - Experimental Sound Textures and Rhythms [Headphones recommended] 12am - 2am Sunday nights 102.7 FM, Melbourne, Australia Listen online: http://www.rrr.org.au/symbiosis/ Submissions welcome. Please contact: Symbiosis c/o Triple R PO Box 2145 Brunswick East 3057 Victoria, Australia Information: info@symbiosis.com.au Pedestrian Culture. The Center for the Study of Pedestrian Culture is a portal for place-based research and creative projects, focused primarily on the humble and revolutionary act of walking. The project is the work of ASAE member Glenn Bach. Artists, writers, composers, psychogeographers, historians, architects, general walkers, and anyone interested in issues of place are welcome to contribute articles, reviews, news, bibliographic entries, projects, artist statements, syllabi, etc. Contributions of place-based raw data to be shared are also encouraged. A Pedestrian Culture Blog is available as is a listserv. Bach notes, "Walking is my commute, exercise, meditation, and thinking time. When I have to drive, I miss it. And, contrary to popular belief, we DO have seasons here in Southern California. The transitions are extremely subtle, but noticeable if you pay attention." Sounds of Taiwan Blog Launched. Tsai-we Chen has written noting that a Chinese and an English blog dedicating to whoever is interested in sounds of Taiwan have been launched. If you have experienced Taiwanese sounds, or are interested in Taiwanese sounds, please visit the blogs and share with us!
Acoustic Ecology Interviews. Steve Miller, Associate Professor of Contemporary Music College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe New Mexico, is working on a series of interviews with various people involved in acoustic ecology work, from sound artists to researchers, industry consultants, historians, etc. The interviews will appear monthly, beginning soon, on the Arts-Electric website. Silk Threads Project. Denise Bryan, visual artist and Adrian Wilkins, sound artist are traveling from Italy to China and beyond along the Ancient Silk roads. If you haven't looked for a while there are new categories on the website and there are updates to 'Ceremonies and Celebrations' and 'Hitting, Blowing and Plucking', the latter having plenty of new sound clips. Visit their web site at: www.silkthreads.org
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