In February the Catalyst program featured the work of the Acoustic Ecology Lab PBS Catalyst TV program
You can find some more information here on Sustainability News
Category: Talks
Community Pause – Invoking the Pause and the Listen Project
We will be presenting workshops and a concert in Joshua Tree with partners JTLab, Joshua Tree National Park, the Mohave land Trust at the end of April – thanks to the generous funding from Invoking the Pause
Poster here – Community Pause – Invoking the Pause and the Listen Project Garth Paine presentation and Performance in Paris
Garth Paine is a researcher/composer in residence at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris and at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany for 2018.
He has been at IRCAM since the beginning of February developing a new concert work for field recordings and composed sound for an immersive ambisonic sound playback and for webAudio and WebVR – a truly immersive concert experience. In this talk he will demonstrate some of the technology developments and talk about the value gained by teaching listening skills and embedding acoustic ecology within the community.
The talk will be followed by a performance using your smart phone – demonstrating some fo the techniques they have been developing at IRCAM over the last 2 months.
EcoSonic – Sound Quality Presentation
Presenting a poster on our EcoSonic work on modeling changes in Acoustic Ecology and weather patterns tomorrow at the CAP LTR conference on long term monitoring https://sustainability.asu.edu/events/rsvp/cap-lter-all-scientists-meeting-and-poster-symposium/
The power of Listening
Thanks to ASU Now for the opportunity to share my passion for how listening can make your life much richer
Garth Paine on Listening from ASU Now on Vimeo. Listen to the sounds of the SW USA on our Listen database http://www.ecolisten.org/sonic_events.php – gathered by ASU faculty and citizen scientists in National Parks across the SW USA, the recordings help document the transformation of the environment over time due to climate change and other environmental impacts.
Sound on the US/Mexico border
Sabine Feisst recently presented a paper on Arizona-based sound artist Glenn Weyant’s SonicAnta Project at the Sound + Environment 2017 Conference at the University of Hull in the U.K. https://soundenvironment.net/ .
The conference created a forum for artists and scientists to examine the ways in which sound can advance our knowledge about the environment. Feisst discussed Weyant’s activist creative placemaking endeavors along the U.S.-Mexico border where he turns fences into sonic bridges. Hear him talk about his work on the US/Mexico boarder on NPR
Watch Glenn Weyant talk about his work on the boarder here
Great to meet Keynote Chris Watson at the conference too.
Feisst gives Keynote at Finnish Musicological Societies at the University of Jyväskylä
Sabine Feisst, co-director of the Acoustic Ecology Lab, was one of three keynote speakers at the annual meeting of the Finnish Musicological and Ethnomusicological Societies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 19–21 April 2017. Her keynote was titled: “U.S.-Mexico Border Chords and Discords: Perspectives on the Changing Sonic Ecologies in the American Southwest.” It critically examined the U.S.-Mexico borderlands’ aural space which in the last two decades has undergone dramatic changes prompted by increased border fortification and militarization.
Junior Citizen Science Festival
Junior Citizen Science Festival
03/10/2017 – 09:00AM
Location: Lost Dog Wash Trailhead
Calling all inquisitive young minds! Bring your kids for a fun, interactive exploration of science and nature at the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy’s Junior Citizen Science Festival. Held in conjunction with the Arizona SciTech Festival, this event will introduce kids to the incredible diversity of the Sonoran Desert through the lens of citizen science. Children will interact with live desert animals, use scientific tools to make discoveries, and learn how they can contribute to science!
Come and experience virtual reality sojourns into the national parks of the SW, USA with the Acoustic Ecology Lab
– See more at: http://mcdowellsonoran.org/event/index#sthash.RGTiQnBC.dpuf
International Conference: Music and Landscape – Soundscape and Sonic Art” at the Kunstuniversität Graz,
Sabine Feisst and Garth Paine look forward to sharing their acoustic ecology-based research and art at the upcoming international conference “Music and Landscape – Soundscape and Sonic Art” at the Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria 27–30 October 2016.
Feisst will deliver a paper on Sonic Placemaking in the American Southwest. Paine will present a perambulatory performance of his Oscillations for Tibetan Singing Bowl Robots and his acousmatic work Becoming Desert. Paine will also participate in a Round Table discussion on “Soundwalks, Sonic Art and Landscapes” with such other artists as Thomas Gerwin and Jacqueline Waldock. For more details see here Art and Advocacy in Environmentalist Music: Tensions, Dimensions, and Perceptions
Join Sabine Feisst, Co-Director of the Acoustic Ecology Lab on Friday, November 4, from 8-10 pm for “Art and Advocacy in Environmentalist Music: Tensions, Dimensions, and Perceptions,” a special AMS session involving artists based in the Vancouver area. It takes place in Pavilion Ballroom A of the Sheraton Wall Centre (1088 Burrard St, downtown Vancouver) and features interactive performances by singer-songwriter Dana Lyons, activist ensemble the Solidarity Labour Notes Choir, children’s music duo Bobs & Lolo, and environmentalist rock group The Wilds. Sabine Feisst (Arizona State University), Tyler Kinnear (University of British Columbia), Stephen Meyer (University of Cincinnati), and Mark Pedelty (University of Minnesota) will facilitate discussion. Please join us for an entertaining and stimulating evening of music and discussion.
Bina Venkataraman speaks at Global Institute of Sustainability @ ASU
October 13th 12 Noon – 481 GIOS, Wrigley Hall @ASU
lunch provided
The Acoustic Ecology Lab is excited to announce a talk by Bina Venkataraman in partnership with GIOS
From Satellites to Supermarket Aisles: Marshaling Science and Innovation for Action on Climate Change
We face a crisis of planetary proportions — a direct result of our cumulative, everyday decisions. How do we bridge an understanding of broad trends on planet Earth with the information we need in our lives and communities to prepare for and prevent climate disaster? Vast data resources and science of all stripes need to be marshaled to help us act on climate change. Policy and technological innovation from the granular to the grandiose are also mission critical. What’s the most promising progress — and what do we need to do next?
Bio
Bina Venkataraman leads efforts that draw on science and technology to improve public policy and sustain the health of people and the planet. Currently, she is a Fellow at the New America Foundation and teaches in MIT”s department of science, technology, and society. Bina previously served as Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation in the Obama White House, where she developed policies and stood up coalitions with a particular focus on private sector and community resilience to climate change. She is a former journalist for The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Bina is an alumna of Brown University and Harvard’s Kennedy School, and the recipient of Fulbright, a Princeton in Asia fellowship, a Metcalf fellowship, and a James Reston fellowship. She serves on the Brown University President’s Leadership Council, the advisory council of the Institute at Brown for the Environment and Society, and the Board of Directors of Earthwatch. She was named a 2015 Global Young Leader by the French-American Foundation.