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Welcome!
This is the third edition of 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.
Deadline for October Edition - September 20, 2004.
Special Note: Some members of the WFAE may have received a copy of the Spring/Summer issue of the Journal that was missing pages 17-20. These can be downloaded from this web site. Please click here to access this material.
WFAE Board Report
•The Spring/Summer issue of Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology is being mailing to WFAE Members look for it in your mailbox soon.
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 AFAE board member Nigel Frayne.
Nigel Frayne is the WFAE board representative for the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology (AFAE). He is a founding member of the AFAE and served as its president for its first five years and is currently vice president. Nigel is the Chair of the WFAE board serving on the Journal and Membership Committees and manages the WFAE finances. |
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His initial involvement with the WFAE began back in 1996 when, following a visit to the home of the World Soundscape Project, Vancouver, he was co-opted onto the Committee charged with restructuring the World Forum.
The discovery of the field of acoustic ecology was a significant event in the professional life of Nigel Frayne. He had recently started his own company providing sound design services and recognised that the philosophy of acoustic ecology could provide the basic principles that rationalise and inform his work. Nigel spent his early years as a musician playing bass in various rock bands from suburban garages to venues to television appearances. When he wasn't playing in bands he
was mixing them live and developed a keen interest in music and sound technology. He took these dual interests into university study completing a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Post graduate Diploma in Contemporary Music Technology at LaTrobe University, Melbourne.
For the past 14 years Nigel has been developing his career as an acoustic designer, soundscape composer and sound designer. Through his company, Resonant Designs, he has completed a wide range of projects for public institutions across the world. His activities include the creation of large and small scale multi-channel electroacoustic soundscapes, surround soundtracks for video programmes, public address system design and interactive sound installations. Clients have
included Singapore and San Diego Zoos, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Immigration Museum - Melbourne and the Australian War Memorial and CSIRO Discovery Centre - Canberra. He also collaborates with artists to realise their electroacoustic soundscape works such as '5000 Calls' at the Sydney Olympic site for Wax Sound Media.
Nigel is a regular attendee at conferences and symposiums and has presented at various universities and tertiary colleges promoting the field of acoustic ecology and the real world practice of acoustic and soundscape design.
WFAE Affiliate News
• ASAE-New York Chapter. On Thursday July 29, 2004, the New York chapter of the ASAE presented their first public event: Terra Acoustica, an open studio and concert of spatialized sound works exploring the richness of the acoustic environment. An afternoon open studio with many of the artists was followed by an evening concert held at the Hunter College Film and Media Department's Studio 436.
Terra Acoustica featured sixteen custom built hemispherical speakers. Unlike normal speakers which overpower the acoustics of a space with strong directionality, the hemispherical speakers created by sound artist Stephan Moore interact with their surroundings and more closely reproduce sound as it occurs in the natural world. The design of the hemispherical speakers was based on an original design by Dr. Perry Cook and Dr. Dan Trueman of Princeton University.
• ASAE-New Mexico Chapter Plans Fall Lecture Series. The New Mexico Chapter of the ASAE is stepping out into the public eye this fall with a monthly lecture series. The series, titled Listening in Place, is being co-sponsored by the Contemporary Music Program of the College of Santa Fe, where ASAE Vice-President Steven Miller is a faculty member.
The lectures are designed as informal presentations, all of which will be centered on field recordings. The series kicks off on September 8 with Jack Loeffler, who has done numerous radio series using oral history and a watershed perspective to tell the story of place. On October 5, David Dunn will share his recent work on the edges of audibility, including recordings of bark beetles in piñon pines and ultrasonic recordings in many
environments. Steve Feld will present on November 8, linking his years of studying Papua New Guinea sound ecology with more recent recordings of bells in Europe; as you may know, he is fascinated by the ways that birds and bells are respective sonic signposts of time in each place. Finally, on December 6, ASAE President Jim Cummings will offer an overview of the art, science, and public policy aspects of acoustic ecology. See the Events section for full details.
• CASE/ACÉS. The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology/ Association Canadienne pour l'écologie sonore ,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 Events section. Click here to Download registration form.
• UK & Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC) Earshot 4, the Journal of the UK & Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC) is now out. Subtitled Time & Visibility II, it continues explorations into Sound and Architecture, and includes contributions from Bernard Tschumi, Markos Novack, Iannis Xenakis & Bill Fontana.
For the first time UKISC has published a audio CD of 'Architectural Soundmarks', included in the publication. The CD consists of 17 tracks of readers / listeners responses to a call for 'favorite architectural spaces (curated by John Drever).
89 pages + CD audio. ISSN: 1471-4183
Earshot 4 is distributed to UKISC members and is also available to WFAE members at a reduced equivalent price of £8 GBP (+ £2 GBP p&p). Available to non-WFAE members for £10 GBP (+ £2 GBP p&p).
Please contact John Drever for ordering your copy : j.drever@gold.ac.uk
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>
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 street music/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
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