IDEOLOGIES AND ETHICS IN THE USES AND ABUSES OF SOUND
Koli, Finland, June 16-19, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS (reminder: abstracts by October 12)
The 2010 WFAE conference will be held at Koli in Eastern Finland. Koli
is a plausible site for reflecting upon ideologies, ethics and
soundscapes, since it was amongst the key places of the national
romantic artist pilgrims in the late 19th century Finland. The main
organisers, Department of Finnish Language and Cultural Research at
the University of Joensuu, Finland and The Finnish Society for
Acoustic Ecology (FSAE) invite researchers and artists from all
disciplines to join this forum of discussion.
Confirmed invited and keynote speakers are (in alphabetical order):
Steven Feld, Charles Hirschkind, Bruce Johnson, Anahid Kassabian,
Andra McCartney, R. Murray Schafer, Barry Truax and Hildegard
Westerkamp.
More information at: http://www.joensuu.fi/soundscapes
Proposals are invited for papers, workshops, roundtable, or artistic
contributions relating to, but not limited to the following topics:
NATIONS, NATIONALISM AND SOUNDSCAPE
There has been an abundance of research on the topic of nationalism
and music. What about nationalism and soundscape? Within sound of
religious movements Martin Stokes mentioned recently that in order to
understand certain Islamic movements today it would be crucial to
understand their soundscapes. Collective listening or giving ?voices?
to subjects and their religious experiences, are some examples.
CONSTRUCTING PAST AND PROGRESS IN THE USES AND ABUSES OF SOUND
Both past and progress can be used and abused as part of many
ideologies. Have past soundscapes been used as a resource as part of
these negotiations? The ideology of progress, then, is intimately
related to the acceptance of noise as an inevitable phenomenon.
ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF WORKING WITH THE SOUNDS
How do soundscape researchers and artists answer to the ethical
challenges of working with the sounds of other people ? and of
themselves. How do we understand cultural convergences, differences
and sameness? Or would it just be more important to learn to tolerate
the other? Should the researcher or artist make an intervention -- or
would it be best just to observe the uses and abuses of sounds from
outside?
THE COMMODIFICATION OF AURAL SPACE, SOUND AND SILENCE
How does silence, its commodification and tourism fit under the same
sky? What kind of strategies can the citizens and planners develop in
different localities in order to guarantee the soundscape comfort,
tourism as a means of livelihood and the touristic search of silence
all at the same time? What about the urban environment with its
ubiquitous transphonic phenomena? Who has the right to fill the urban
space with music, and how is it currently happening?
Please send ABSTRACTS (max. 400 words) by October 12, 2009 to the
conference e-mail address koli(a)akueko.com. The abstracts are being
dealt with in early November, and the people whose papers and sonic
art works are chosen to be presented will be notified on November 10.
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Subject: "Organised Sound" call for submissions "Networked
Electroacoustic Music"
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:19:30 +0100
From: Leigh Landy <llandy(a)dmu.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cec-conference(a)concordia.ca
To: Organised Sound Call <llandy(a)dmu.ac.uk>, Ian Whalley
<musik(a)waikato.ac.nz>, "Ken Fields (Calgary)" <kfields(a)ucalgary.ca>
Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music and Technology
*Call for submissions
*
Volume 17, Number 1
Issue thematic title:* Networked Electroacoustic Music
*Date of Publication: April 2012
Publishers: Cambridge University Press
Issue co-ordinators: Ian Whalley (musik(a)waikato.ac.nz), Ken Fields
(kfields(a)ucalgary.ca)
/Organised Sound/ has regularly covered networked music in the past,
including a themed issue (vol. 10/3, 2005). The proliferation of
Internet2 has resulted in a sustained practice of sonic and multimedia
experimentation over high-speed research networks. This current themed
issue aims to explore and document current work, practices and
innovation in this new musical space. Are there new issues in aesthetics
to be addressed in electroacoustic music as mediated by networks? What
continuing practices and roles are being transformed and/or
reinterpreted as a consequence? What are the most significant new
outcomes or processes? What are the current research questions that need
to be explored? As the diffusion of multichannel audio set an agenda for
a generation of electroacoustic music, will geo-diffusion be a new
benchmark?
Topics for investigation might include, but are not restricted to:
· Conceptual frameworks for current and continuing research
· Perceptual/cognitive framing of the tele-musical event
· Aesthetics/philosophy of sonic interconnection
· Beyond spatialisation: geo-diffusion
· New tools and techniques being used and explored
· Production and social-organisational challenges created by distributed
work
· Hybrid art-forms that may have emerged
· Challenges in combining local and remote acoustics
· Human and Network Interaction (HNI)
· Distributed / remote participation (composition, performance, reception)
· Network acoustics: sonifying the network
· Sonic outcomes of machine, Internet2, and human interaction
· Artistic statements and innovative outcomes
The OS issue* Networked Electroacoustic Music* will also be encouraged
through a networked symposium in January 2011. For updates subscribe to:
http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/stremes-l
As always, submissions related to the theme are encouraged; however,
those that fall /outside/ the scope of this theme are /always/ welcome.
Deadline for submissions is 15 June 2011. Submitted papers may
supporting audio and audio-visual material will be presented as part of
the journal's annual DVD-ROM which will appear with issue 17/3 as well
on the journal's website when the issue is published.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 June 2011
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Notes for Contributors and further details can be obtained from the
inside back cover of published issues of /Organised Sound/ or at the
following url:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=OSO&type=ifc
<http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=OSO&type=ifc>
(and download the pdf)
Properly formatted email submissions and general queries should be sent
to: os(a)dmu.ac.uk, not to the guest editors.
Hard copy of articles and images (only when requested) and other
material (e.g., sound and audio-visual files, etc. -- normally max. 15'
sound files or 8' movie files) should be submitted to:
Prof. Leigh Landy
Organised Sound
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester LE1 9BH, _UK_.
Editor: Leigh Landy
Associate Editors: Ross Kirk and Richard Orton
Regional Editors: Joel Chadabe, Lonce Wyse, Eduardo Miranda, Jøran Rudi,
Barry Truax, Ian Whalley, David Worrall
International Editorial Board: Marc Battier, Hannah Bosma, Alessandro
Cipriani, Simon Emmerson, Kenneth Fields, Rajmil Fischman, Rosemary
Mountain, Tony Myatt, Jean-Claude Risset, Margaret Schedel, Mary Simoni,
Martin Supper
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