Can we avoid extinction with better design?
In this New York Times review, WLP Board member Bernie Krause provides a significant contribution through listening to the global crisis of extinction.
THE WORLD LISTENING PROJECT
THE WORLD LISTENING PROJECT (WLP) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization devoted to understanding the world and its natural environment, societies and cultures through the practices of listening and field recording. The WLP was founded in 2008 and is...
Green Field Recordings Releases 2015 World Listening Day
December 6, 2015 Thanks to the many participating phonographers and sound artists around the world, Green Field Recordings released its fifth online collection of recordings dedicated to the 2015 World Listening Day on the theme “Water.” Listen and download...
Balance-Unbalance 2016 Call for Participation
The 5th edition of the Balance-Unbalance (BunB 2016) conference will be held from May 9 to 11 of 2016 in Manizales, Colombia.
BunB 2016 is an International Conference designed to use art as a catalyst to explore intersections between NATURE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY as we move into an era of both unprecedented ecological threats and transdisciplinary possibilities. The theme for BunB 2016 is “Data Science + Eco Action”.
BunB 2016 is seeking for papers, transdisciplinary workshops, artistic activities and exhibitions, posters and panels considering to propose, analyze and discuss specific projects and actions that could help us to face the serious environmental crisis. BunB 2016 is also open to host a diversity of virtual components allowing global accessibility and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of a major international conference.
Deadline for submissions: October 10, 2015 (midnight, Colombia’s time)
Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2015
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Call for Support In Pursuit of Silence
IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE is a meditative film about our relationship with sound and the impact of noise that will be released globally. The award-winning Los Angeles-based filmmakers are currently in the final stages of production, and have launched...
Deep Listening: 2nd Annual International Art-Science Conference
Deep Listening: Art/Science 2nd Annual International Conference on Deep Listening July 10-12, 2014 Pre-conference workshops – July 7-9 Conference – July 10-12 Post-conference festival – July 12 & July 13 Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer...
2014 World Listening Day – “Listen To You!”
This year’s theme for World Listening Day is “Listen To You!” Some questions to consider: How do you make yourself heard by others ? How do you listen and what do you hear when you want to be unseen? How might the...
“Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening” – City Creatures
On Monday, April 28 Eric Leonardson’s post on “Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening” was published on the City Creatures blog about animal encounters in the urban wilderness. This coincided with the Forum on Ethics & Nature: A Cascade of...
July–September WFAE News Quarterly
The WFAE News Quarterly for July-September 2013 is now online at http://wfae.proscenia.net/newsletter/. This issue includes a feature article by Nicholas Green on the design of a botanic garden sound installation project and a research report on a Rome based soundscape perception...
World Listening Day at the Douglas Center for Environmental Education
Join the World Listening Project, Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore to celebrate World Listening Day at the Douglas Center for Environmental Education. MSAE member and School of the Art Institute of Chicago instructor Monica...