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Soundscape Journal: Call For Articles
WFAE Board Report
WFAE Affiliate News
Welcome!
This is a monthly online supplement to Soundscape:The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. Our goal is to make available in a timely manner, a calendar of events, announcements and latest news from the WFAE Board, WFAE Affiliates, and other organizations related to the field of acoustic ecology.
The success of this newsletter is dependent upon contributions by WFAE affiliate organizations, members, and others in the field of acoustic-ecology. See the Contributions section on how to submit material to this newsletter.
Soundscape Journal: Call For Articles
The WFAE publication,Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, is seeking submission of articles on the theme: The Experience of Music in Daily Life.
Deadline: October 1, 2004.
We welcome articles that deal with a range of experiences of music in daily life, both in the public and the private realm. For example the articles could cover the following areas:
- music broadcast into public spaces not only by leased music corporations or radio stations but also by individuals choosing a musical ambience for their shops, restaurants, waiting rooms, etc.
- music as public nuisance.
- the experience of headphone listening while moving through daily life and public spaces.
- live music in public spaces such as any type of streetmusic/performance.
- sound/music pieces, acoustic or electroacoustic, created for public spaces/daily life experience, i.e. outside of traditional concert halls/performance spaces, including urban, rural, or wilderness environments.
- daily life music experiences in non-European, non-North American societies.
- accounts of daily life music experiences in the past.
Authors are encouraged to download and read our Contributor's Guide (230 KB) (Reader Assisted) by Robert MacNevin. All contributing authors are asked to follow these guidelines in the preparation of manuscripts for the Journal. Topics include organization, font, style, submission of graphs, charts, photographs, and other materials.
Submit material to:soundscape-editor@wfae.net
WFAE Board Report
•The Spring/Summer issue of Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology is in press and mailing to WFAE Members will take place in the next few weeks.
• The Board is Planning for WFAE participation in the International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Lisbon,July 10-14, 2005. Individuals interested in participating in this conference should contact their Board Representative for further information. More information will be made available 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.
This month we introduce Steven M.Miller.
Steven M. Miller is the WFAE Board representative for the American Society for Acoustic Ecology.
Miller is a composer, performer, improviser, audio engineer, and producer. His primary musical interests are in electroacoustic and computer music, improvisation, and world music.
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Miller has performed in a variety of solo and ensemble contexts throughout the US. He performs as a percussionist regularly throughout New Mexico with Nacha Mendez. He coordinates and co-hosts the weekly radio show “Other Voices, Other Sounds” on KUNM 89.9 FM in Albuquerque, NM. Performances and radio broadcasts of his electroacoustic music have occurred in North & South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. |
He is Associate Professor of Contemporary Music and the former director of the Contemporary Music Program at The College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, where he teaches courses in electroacoustic music, world music, acoustic ecology/acoustic communication, and composition and produces the annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music.
Miller has performed in a variety of solo and ensemble contexts throughout the US. He performs as a percussionist regularly throughout New Mexico with Nacha Mendez. He coordinates and co-hosts the weekly radio show “Other Voices, Other Sounds” on KUNM 89.9 FM in Albuquerque, NM. Performances and radio broadcasts of his electroacoustic music have occurred in North & South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. He is Associate Professor of Contemporary Music and the former director of the Contemporary Music Program at The College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, where he teaches courses in electroacoustic music, world music, acoustic ecology/acoustic communication, and composition and produces the annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music.
As an undergraduate Miller studied electronic music and composition with Ingram Marshall and audio recording & production with Peter Randlette at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA. He completed an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, where he studied with David Rosenboom, Larry Polansky, Maggi Payne, Anthony Braxton and William Winant. In 1989-90 Miller was a Fulbright Scholar in composition, studying traditional and new music for gamelan at STSI-Surakarta (Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia, the national performing arts college) and the Pura Mangkunegaran in Surakarta, Central Java Indonesia.
Miller's web site is at: <http://music.csf.edu/steven>.
WFAE Affiliate News
• Since late May 2004, a small group in the New York City area has been organizing the first regional chapter of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology. On
July 29th, members of the group presented an open studio and concert event called Terra Acoustica at Hunter College featuring spatialized environmental sound works performed in a 16-channel hemispherical speaker array. Upcoming plans for the Fall include the development of an interactive soundmap of NYC and a series of concerts, walks, readings and talks related to the urban sonic
environment. For more information about the chapter, next meeting etc., contact Andrea Polli at apolli@hunter.cuny.edu
• The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE)/ Association Canadienne pour l'écologie sonore (ACÉS),is sponsoring the 2nd Haliburton Soundscape Retreat October 8—11, 2004 This will be held at the Haliburton Wildlife Reserve in Ontario, Canada. More details in the Announcements section.
WFAE Board Representatives:
- American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE)
Steven Miller <asae@wfae.net>
- Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology (AFAE)
Nigel Frayne <afae@wfae.net>
- Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE/ACÉS)
Andra McCartney <case@wfae.net>
- Forum fuer Klanglandschaft (FKL)
Albert Mayr <fkl@wfae.net>
- Japanese Association for Sound Ecology (JASE)
Keiko Torigoe <jase@wfae.net>
- Suomen Akustisen Ekologian Seura (Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology),(FSAE)
Simo Alitalo <fsae@wfae.net>
- UK and Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC). Gregg Wagstaff <ukisc@wfae.net>
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