Dear Friends,
This is a reminder that we Locus Sonus streamers are participating in World Listening Day, on Sunday July 18th. It will be great if you can activate your web-mics on this day, please.
Below is a description of World Listening Day, with a list of participants.
Please free to pass on the information. The World Listening Project website is at http://www.worldlisteningproject.org.
The purposes of World Listening Day are:
· to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology;
· to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project http://www.sfu.ca/%7Etruax/wsp.html, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, World Listening Project, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography;
· and to design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices.
World Listening Day is being organized by the World Listening Project http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/ (WLP), in partnership with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology http://mwsae.org/ (MSAE). July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer http://www.philmultic.com/composers/schafer.html, who is one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which Schafer directed, is an important organization that built the foundations of this field. His book /The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World /helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement.
WLP and MSAE invite you to participate in World Listening Day. Here are several possibilities---
· You can organize a soundwalk or a listening party when people play field recordings.
· You can organize a performance event that involves field recordings and other artistic expressions that explore our soundscape and how we can listen to our sonic environment.
· You can participate in a private / solitary way, by paying attention to your soundscape.
· You can facilitate an educational event that relates to acoustic ecology, field recordings, or a similar topic.
· You can contact organizations that are participating in World Listening Day, to see if you can get involved that way.
If you would like to participate in World Listening Day, please email worldlistening@gmail.com mailto:worldlistening@gmail.com, and be sure to include World Listening Day in the subject line.
World Listening Day includes the following organizations, projects, and individuals:
*Organizations and Projects*
Aconica http://www.aconica.de/ (Berlin)
American Society for Acoustic Ecology http://www.acousticecology.org/asae/
Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology
Bay Area Sound Ecology http://www.basoundecology.org/ (San Francisco Bay Area)
Berg 26 http://www.berg26.net/ and Sound Studies / Berlin University of the Arts http://www.udk-berlin.de/sites/soundstudies/content/index_eng.html -- "The World's Not Listening Day" http://www.berg26.net/Berg_26/strausberger_platz.html at Im Namen des Raumes http://www.imnamendesraumes.de/ (Berlin)
Canadian Association for Sound Ecology http://www.acousticecology.ca/ -- New Adventures in Sound Art http://www.naisa.ca/ (Toronto)
Chicago Phonography http://www.chicagophonography.org/
Chukyo University's Department of Information Media Technology http://www.chukyo-u.ac.jp/eng/under/information.html -- "?" http://wld.sukothai.com/ (Toyota, Japan)
Citizen Sound
C.O.M.A. Series http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ebbrjsiwula/_wsn/page2.html (New York, NY)
Community Sound [e]Scapes http://soundescapes.improvcommunity.ca/index.php/home -- "Deep Listening Goes Global" http://soundescapes.improvcommunity.ca/index.php/world-listening-day (Guelph, Canada)
"Exquisite Rarities" / Radio Mana'o http://www.manaoradio.com/ (Maui, Hawaii)
free103point9 http://free103point9.org/'s broadcast of GIANT EAR))) archives http://free103point9.org/works/391
Fruit for the Apocalypse http://www.fruit-for-the-apocalypse.eu/ -- "East London Soundscapes" http://www.fruit-for-the-apocalypse.eu/marmalade
Global Sound Map http://www.globalsoundmap.com/
Hellenic Association for Acoustic Ecology http://www.akouse.gr/ -- "A Listening Demonstration-Performance and Sunset Silence Meditation" http://music.ionio.gr/en/academy/ (Corfu, Greece)
"I-Hear in the Country" http://thedomesticsoundscape.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/06/soundwalk-3-the-kit/ (Warborough, Dorchester, Overy, and Shillingford, England)
"Improv with Nature" http://www.chrisskebo.com/wld.html (Sterling Heights, MI)
KKWNE http://www.streamingthe.net/KKWNE-Cannibal-Caniche---Musique/p/19086&c=France&v=1 -- "World Listening Day Episode of Cannibal Canniche" (Paris)
LagosSoundscape http://www.lagossoundscape.com/
Locus Sonus http://locusonus.org/ -- Locustream Soundmap http://locusonus.org/soundmap/ and Audio Tardis http://locusonus.org/tardis/ (Nice, France)
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology http://mwsae.org/ -- World Listening Day at Chicago Underground Library
Music for the Soul: A Performance of Inspiring Music for Choir, Ensemble & Concert Band http://sa2.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest;jsessionid=861414F08EBAB76DDE9022FC77BD4659?eventId=100147050&presenter=AUMEC&venue=&event=FEST10 (Mackay, Qld, Australia)
/Networked Music Review http://www.turbulence.org/networked_music_review//
The New England Phonographers Union http://nephono.wordpress.com/ -- Listening Session at Art@12 http://nephono.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/world-listening-day/ (Boston)
New York Society for Acoustic Ecology http://www.nyacousticecology.org/
nocinema http://nujus.net/%7Enocinema/01/ and radiomix http://nujus.net/%7Enocinema/htmljs/radio/index.html
OISTAT Sound Design Working Group http://www.theatresound.org/ (Taipei) -- "SixtySecond Theatre" http://www.theatresound.org/world_listening_day.htm
Possible Spaces http://www.shinrin20202.jp/ (Tokyo)
PVA http://www.pva.org.uk/index.htm (Bridgport, England)
Radio Aporee http://aporee.org/maps/
Radio Lab http://www.radiolab.net.br/ (Brasília, Brazil)
Seattle Phonographers Union http://www.seapho.org/ -- Soundwalks at Green Lake
Society for the Visually Handicapped http://www.svhwestbengal.org/ (Calcutta)
"Song Path" http://songpath.blogspot.com/ (Banning State Park, MN)
Sonic Survey of Weymouth Seaside http://www.51degreesnorth.net/joe/archives/594 (Dorset, England)
Sound/fjord/ London http://www.soundfjord.org/ -- "Into the Wilds: An Urban-Rural Soundwalk" http://www.soundfjord.org/liveshowsperformance.htm
Soundpocket http://soundpocket.org.hk/ -- "Let's Listen" http://www.soundpocket.org.hk/site/?p=269 (Hong Kong)
"Sounds Like Radio" http://startlingmoniker.wordpress.com/ (WDBX FM)
Soundwalk in Kendral http://www.music.freakout.biz/ (Kumbria, England)
Southwest Forum for Acoustic Ecology
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival http://www.unitetheunion.com/news__events/events/tolpuddle_martyrs_festival_20.aspx (Dorset)
Turbulence http://www.turbulence.org/
Wild Sanctuary http://www.wildsanctuary.com/
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/wfae/home/
World Listening Project http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/ -- Sounding into World Listening Day http://www.brownricemusic.org/ (Chicago)
*Individuals*
Brendan Aanes http://aanes.org/ (Berkeley, CA)
Frank Abbinanti http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/abbinanf.htm (Chicago, IL)
Hasan Abdur-Razzaq http://www.myspace.com/hasanrazzaq (Columbus, OH)
Aubri Adkins (Chicago)
Luís Antero http://www.luisantero.yolasite.com/ (Lisbon, Portugal)
Dave Armstrong http://startlingmoniker.wordpress.com/ (Carbondale, IL)
Geejay Arriola http://www.mebuyanpeaceproject.org/ (Davao City, Philippines)
Ian Ash http://www.myspace.com/thedeependensemble (Philadelphia)
Martin Backes (Berlin)
Steve Barsotti http://www.kazbar.org/ (Seattle)
Hena Basu http://www.svhwestbengal.org/ (Calcutta, India)
Anna Bäumer (Berlin)
Jimmy Bennington (Chicago)
Elliott H. Berger http://www.e-a-r.com/hearingconservation/ (Indianapolis, IN)
Michael Bettine http://www.gongtopia.com/Gongtopia/GONGTOPIA.html (Milwaukee, WI)
Rick Breault (Lowell, MA)
Eric Brown http://audiorecon.wordpress.com/ (Indianapolis, IN)
Steven Brown http://listenhear.podbean.com/ (Manchester, England)
Alpha Bruton http://www.alphabruton.com/ (Chicago)
Umut Çag(lar http://umutcaglar.info/ (Istanbul, Turkey)
Rebecca Caines http://www.improvcommunity.ca/people/rebecca_caines (Guelph, Canada)
Andrea Callard http://www.andreacallard.com/ (New York City)
Raquel Castro http://vimeo.com/raquelcastro (Tavira, Portugal)
Daniele Cavallanti http://www.nexusworkshop.com/Daniele/daniele_who.htm (Milan, Italy)
David Chapman http://www.davidchapman.info/ (London)
Andi Chapple http://www.music.freakout.biz/ (Sedbergh, England)
Luca Chiappini (Chicago)
Chad Clark http://www.chicagophonography.org/ (Chicago)
Steve Cohn http://www.thestevecohn.com/ (New York City)
Maile Colbert http://www.binauralmedia.org/en/artists/en_artists_maile_c.html (Alaska, USA)
Darren Copeland http://www.darrencopeland.net/ (Toronto, Canada)
James Cornish http://www.myspace.com/cornishjames (Detroit)
Viv Corringham (Minneapolis)
David Cottridge http://www.cottridge.com/ (London)
Gerard Cox http://www.myspace.com/gerardcoxmusic (Columbus, OH)
Noé Cuéllar http://www.futurevessel.com/noe/ (Chicago)
Steve Dalachinsky http://www.forward.com/articles/13726/ (New York City)
Andrea Dancer http://andreadancer.wordpress.com/ (Prague, Czech Republic)
Rob Danielson http://fieldpost.blogspot.com/ (LaCrosse, WI)
Kimberly Davis (Boerne, TX)
Alan Dein http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alan-dein (London, England)
DJ Spooky http://www.djspooky.com/ (New York City)
Jason Dodge (Berlin)
Bruce Eisenbeil http://www.eisenbeil.com/ (New York City)
Katrin Emler (Berlin)
Ionna Etmektsoglou http://music.ionio.gr/en/academy/ (Corfu, Greece)
John Erickson (McKinney, TX)
Björn Eriksson http://ruccas.org/wiki.pl/Miulew (Sweden)
Banning Eyre http://www.banningeyre.com/ (Hartford, CT)
Eva Fahle-Clouts http://www.devonartstorm.com/eva-01.html (Charmouth, England)
Dennis Wong Chung Fai http://www.myspace.com/sin_ned (Hong Kong)
Marcos Fernandes http://www.marcosfernandes.com/ (Tokyo)
Gary Ferrington (Eugene, OR)
Elen Flügge (Berlin)
Felicity Ford http://www.thedomesticsoundscape.com/ (Oxford, England)
Anny Fryeagle (Canada)
Jez Riley French http://jezrileyfrench.blogspot.com/ (Portugal)
Helen Marie Frosi http://soundfjord.webs.com/information.htm#538515862 (London)
Dan Godston http://dangodston.bandcamp.com/ (Chicago)
Florian Goeschke (Berlin)
Annie Goh http://berg26.blogspot.com/ (Berlin)
Forbes Graham http://www.polyrhythmatics.net/ (Montreal)
Burton Greene (Amsterdam)
Lucio Haeser (Brasília, Brazil)
Jonathan Harnum http://intentionalpractice.wordpress.com/about/ (Chicago)
Paul Hartsaw http://www.myspace.com/paulhartsaw (Chicago)
Douglas Henderson (Berlin)
Robert Henke (Berlin)
Jon Hey http://www.examiner.com/x-53028-Experimental-Arts-Examiner%7Ey2010m6d15-Jonathan-Hey (Mazomanie, WI)
Derek Hoffend http://www.derekhoffend.com/ (Boston)
Joe Chan Kiu Hong http://apart.hk/ (Hong Kong)
Bart Hopkin http://windworld.com/ (Point Reyes Station, CA)
Sarah Hopkins http://www.sarahhopkins.com/ (Brisbane, Australia)
David Harrison Horton http://unionherald.blogspot.com/ (Beijing)
Abby Wong Mei Hung (Hong Kong)
Spencer Hutchinson http://soundcloud.com/ersatz-modem (Knoxville, TN)
Daniela Imhoff (Berlin)
Ryan Ingebritsen http://ryaningebritsen.com/ (Chicago)
Peter Joslyn (Berlin)
Jérôme Joy (France)
Melissa Kagerer (Chicago)
Dirar Kalash http://myownspace.fr/937 (Jerusalem)
John Kannenberg http://www.johnkannenberg.com/ (Ann Arbor, MI)
Ernst Karel http://ek.klingt.org/ (Cambridge, MA)
Mazen Kerbaj http://www.kerbaj.com/ (Beirut, Lebanon)
Thomas Koch (Berlin)
Siew-wai Kok (Malaysia)
Kai Kraatz http://www.kaikraatz.com/ (Chicago)
Bernie Krause http://www.wildsanctuary.com/aboutwsi.html (Glen Ellen, CA)
Katherine Krause http://www.wildsanctuary.com/ (Glen Ellen)
Katya Lachowicz (Berlin)
Jaffa Lam Laam http://jaffalam.net/ (Hong Kong)
Ricardo Lagomasino http://www.myspace.com/ricardolagomasino (Philadelphia)
William Lane http://hknme.org/ (Hong Kong)
Kyu Lee (Chicago)
Eric Leonardson http://ericleonardson.org/ (Chicago)
PerMagnus Lindborg http://www.permagnus.net/ (Stockholm)
Norman Long http://www.chicagophonography.org/ (Chicago)
Stephanie Loveless http://stephanieloveless.ca/ (Quebec)
Bill MacKay (Chicago)
Tom Mansell (Ann Arbor)
Cédric Maridet http://www.moneme.com/ (Hong Kong)
Thollem McDonas http://www.thollem.com/ (San Francisco, CA)
Brandon Mechtley http://www.bmechtley.com/ (Tempe, AZ)
Bjørn Melhus (Berlin)
Kim Mennillo (Cornelius, NC)
Steven Miller http://www.stevenmmiller.net/ (Bali, Indonesia)
Kristin Miltner http://www.myspace.com/miltnerunit (Oakland, CA)
Anton Mobin http://antonmobin.blogspot.com/ (Paris)
Jayve Montgomery http://www.jayvejohnmontgomery.com/ (Chicago)
Edmund Mooney http://www.edmundmooney.com/ (New York City)
Jeremiah Moore http://www.jeremiahmoore.com/ (San Francisco)
Jennifer Mosier (Chicago)
Jon Mueller http://www.rhythmplex.com/ (Milwaukee, WI)
Michelle Nagai http://michellenagai.com/ (Princeton, NJ)
Michael Noble http://nowhere.iamnobody.net/ (Seoul)
Udo Noll http://www.awmt.info/main/bioun.html (Berlin)
Nik Nowak (Berlin)
Gregory O'Drobinak http://www.chicagophonography.org/ (Indiana)
Emeka Ogboh http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/person/8243 (Lagos, Nigeria)
Yoshitaka Oishi (Toyota)
Linda O'Keeffe http://web.me.com/okeeffelinda/lindaokeeffe/Bio.html (Kildare, Ireland)
Ben Owen http://www.free103point9.org/artists/13 (New York City)
John Owens http://natureechos.net/ (Miami)
Maggi Payne http://www.maggipayne.com/ (Berkeley)
Lula Pena (Lisbon)
Steve Peters http://www.myspace.com/stevepeters (Seattle)
Perdita Philips http://www.perditaphillips.com/ (Perth, Australia)
planetaldol http://planetaldol.free.fr/ (Paris)
Anthony Poretti http://www.myspace.com/anthonyporetti (Arizona)
Divik Ramesh <divikramesh.blogspot.com> (Delhi, India)
Ian M Rawes http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/ (London)
Damian Rebgetz (Berlin)
Richard Register http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/rr-bio.html (Oakland)
Eric Glick Rieman http://www.accretions.com/artists/eric.asp (Berkeley)
David Rogers (Bridgport, England)
Harry Ross http://www.fruit-for-the-apocalypse.eu/ (London)
Stephen Rush http://www.music.umich.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?u=srush (Ann Arbor)
Kamal Sabran http://kamalsabran.blogspot.com/ (Ipoh, Malaysia)
Dennis Sagel http://www.myspace.com/oobydoobydenn (Ann Arbor)
Dany Scheffler (Berlin)
Frauke Schmidt (Berlin)
Max Schneider http://www.aconica.de/ (Berlin)
Edward Schocker http://edwardschocker.com/ (Denver, CO)
Vijayendra Sekhon http://vsekhon.wordpress.com/ (Mumbai, India)
Fred Jeremy Seligson (Montpellier, France)
Susie Law Wai Shan http://soundpocket.org.hk/ (Hong Kong)
Debbie Sheppard http://www.youtube.com/user/thebee1111 (Detroit)
Alexander Sieber (Berlin)
Adrian Sievering (Berlin)
Tse Chun Sing (Hong Kong)
Taran Singh (Paris)
Josh Sinton http://joshsinton.com/ (New York City)
Blaise Siwula http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ebbrjsiwula/ (New York City)
Chris Skebo http://www.chrisskebo.com/ (Detroit)
Adam Smith http://www.myspace.com/adamsmithmusic (Columbus)
Miko Söderlund http://www.globalsoundmap.com/ (Göteborg, Sweden)
Carl Sondrol http://www.sondrolmusic.com/ (Los Angeles)
Jed Speare http://www.mobius.org/artist/jed-speare (Boston)
Heather Spence http://www.heatherspence.net/eng/ (Isla Mujeres, Mexico)
Joe Stevens http://www.51degreesnorth.net/joe (Weymouth, England)
Mojdeh Stoakley http://themojdehproject.com/ (Chicago)
Carl Stone http://www.sukothai.com/ (Tokyo)
Moritz Stumm (Berlin)
Benjamin Tausig (Thailand)
Carl Testa http://carltesta.net/ (New Haven)
Nadene Thériault-Copeland (Toronto)
Helen Thorington http://www.turbulence.org/bios.html
Tiziano Tononi http://www.nexusworkshop.com/tiziano/who.htm (Milan)
Fereshteh Toosi http://www.fereshteh.net/ (Chicago)
Y.E. Torres (Houston)
Sarah Weaver http://sarahweaver.org/ (New York City)
Glenn Weyant http://www.sonicanta.com/home.html (Tucson)
Bill Whitmer http://www.myspace.com/donkeyscratch (Glascow, Scotland)
Andrea Williams http://www.myspace.com/urbanfieldrecording (Berkeley)
Alex Wing http://www.myspace.com/alexwing (Chicago)
Thomas Wochnik (Berlin)
Paul Wood http://www.paulwood.name/ (Maui, HI)
Yeung Yang (Hong Kong)
Tsang Sin Yu (Hong Kong)
Updates regarding additional participants and projects will be announced soon.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Locustream Soundmap presentation : http://locusonus.org/soundmap/
At one point it seemed necessary to provide the "streamers" (as we have come to call the musicians and artists who've responded to our call) with the possibility to access the streams themselves, not only to hear their own stream but also those provided by other people. So we made this animated map which shows the location of all the streams and indicates those which are currently active with a blinking light. By clicking on a chosen location one can directly listen to the OGG Vorbis stream in a browser.
Community of streamers. Another interesting development arising from the fact that we are involving other people to set up the microphones is that we have found ourselves with a network of people - artists, musicians and researchers, who are inherently interested by networked audio. This has led to use of the streams for art forms, outside of the lab itself (SARC in Belfast, Cedric Maridet in Hong-Kong, etc.). Much of our research concerns the emergence of listening practices which are based on the permanence, the non spectacular or non event based quality of the streams. We have found ourselves creating a sort of variation on Cageian (as in John Cage) listening, importing a remote acoustic environment in a way which can be chosen by the user, creates a renewed concentration on the local environment itself. This has led us to reflect on a form which adopts a permanent or semi permanent situation to present the streams publicly, and which involves a relationship between the local and the remote environment.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Locustream Audio Tardis presentation : http://locusonus.org/tardis/
Locustream Audio Tardis is an imaginary journey between various open mikes of the Locustream project, initiated by the Locus Sonus lab. All the sounds that are heard are transmitted live from the distant locations where volunteers taking part in the project have set up microphones which permanently stream their chosen soundscape via the web. By switching from stream to stream the audience hear the cyclical sequence which are successively played for around 7 to 10 mn each. A simple video-image showing the name of the location and of the streamer is projected during each sequence.
Locus Sonus http://locusonus.org/
Locus Sonus is a research group specialized in audio art. It is organized as a post graduate lab by the Art Schools of Aix en Provence (ESAA) and Nice (ENSA Villa Arson) in the south of France. We have a partnership with sociology lab CNRS, LAMES Aix en Provence (who are interested by the way that practices related to new technologies are creating modifications in artistic production and the way that the public responds to these modifications), and we currently continue collaborations with the CRESSON, architecture lab CNRS in Grenoble (sonic spaces research centre), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and other international partners. Locus Sonus is concerned with the innovative and transdisciplinary nature of audio art forms, in the framework of networked sonic spaces, some of which are experimented and evaluated in a lab type context. An important factor is with the collective or multi-user aspects inherent to many emerging audio practices and which necessitate working as a group. Two main thematic define this research - audio in it's relation to space and networked audio systems. Today our research is grouped under two main headings Field Spatialization and Networked Sonic Spaces. Locus Sonus Lab 2007/2010 : Julien Clauss, Alejandro Duque, Scott Fitzgerald, Jérôme Joy, Anne Roquigny, Peter Sinclair. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
All the best, Eric