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.
World Listening Day 2016: Sounds Lost and Found
You are invited to participate in World Listening Day 2016, an annual global event held on July 18. The purposes of World Listening Day are to: Celebrate the listening practices of the world and the ecology of its acoustic...
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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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...
Sounds of a Changing Climate
At a time when the world is experiencing unprecedented ecological threats, the Balance-Unbalance International Conference is a global initiative designed to harness the talents of innovators working at the forefront of the arts, science and technology to explore transdisciplinary...
Listening to Disaster
Portugal-based sound artist Maile Colbert is among the 2012 World Listening Day participants. Check out her “Listening to Disaster: Our Relationship to Sound in Danger,” her contribution to World Listening Day on the Sounding Out! website.
2012 World Listening Day
The 2012 World Listening Day happens on Wednesday, July 18th. The purposes of World Listening Day are: to celebrate different ways we can focus on our soundscape (sonic environment); to raise awareness about the acoustic ecology movement, including ideas...
Call for Proposals: The Global Composition
Deadline for submissions extended to March 30, 2012 We are looking forward to your artistic, scholarly or scientific proposals for our event: The Global Composition Conference on Sound, Media and the Environment Darmstadt/Media Campus Dieburg (Hochschule Darmstadt), July...
Framework:afield #326 Episode 4 Worlds Unheard
The fourth and final edition of the World Listening Project’s mini-series for Framework Radio will broadcast on Sunday, April 24. “#326 Worlds Unheard” was produced by Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) member Gregory O’Drobinak who assembled a fascinating...
2011 WORLD FORUM FOR ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY CONFERENCE
2011 WORLD FORUM FOR ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY CONFERENCE
Crossing listening paths
IONIAN UNIVERSITY, CORFU, 3-7 OCTOBER 2011
CALL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Soundscapes are seldom simple; on the contrary, they tend to be complex sounding systems continuously changing in time, which no art or science can approach in depth on its own. Listening is the “corner stone” for the appreciation, participation and study of the sonic environment that surrounds and includes us. As Westerkamp (2002) remarks, it is the ecological balance of our planet that becomes audible “to those who care to listen.”
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