listening to the earth
This is a great article by George Massenburg that outlines the differences between hearing and listening: one “hears” with one’s brains, not only with one’s ears.
Hearing is the act of perceiving sound by the ear. Listening is a conscious mental process, as much about the brain as the ear, and it starts with establishing attention to a sound
Dr. Garth Paine recently published an article in The Conversation outlining some of the psychoacoustic research being undertaken at the Acoustic Ecology Lab @ASU and how this work can assist us in understanding environmental change from sound analysis.
The Locusonus and SoundCamp project n offers excellent support for audio streaming and recording using Raspberry Pi micro controllers in the field.
The Acoustic Ecology team at ASU is using these resources as a starting point to develop realtime psychoacoustic tools for realtime sound mapping.
More system development info is available here
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Abby Aresty as a Post-Doctoral scholar to the Acoustic Ecology Lab @ ASU. Abby is a composer and sound artist who uses technology to facilitate unexpected interactions between people, the built environment, and the natural world. Aresty’s work is rooted in the fields of acoustic ecology, sound art, and electroacoustic composition, and has included concert works, public sound installations, soundwalks, pop-up galleries, multimedia collaborations, biofeedback interfaces, and sound sculptures, including prosthetic listening devices.
Abby received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Washington in 2012. From 2013-2014, she was a Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, and from 2014-2016, she held the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Electronic Music and Sound Studies at Grinnell College.
We will be launching the new Acoustic Ecology Lab site very soon and you can expect to hear a lot more from Abby over the coming months.
Interesting article in the American Psychological Associations publication about how regular exposure to the natural world can help restoring mental clarity heal the body.
We are planning to look at the benefits of taking hospitalized and elderly people into national parks virtual using EcoRift. We hypothesis that this could be a valuable aid to healing and wellbeing.
Psychologists’ research explains the mental and physical restoration we get from nature–and has important implications for how we build our homes, work environments and cities.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/greengood.aspx
Sabine Feisst was a keynote speaker at Sonic Environments in Brisbane, Australia. Organized by the Australasian Computer Music Association and the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology, this international conference brought together artists and scholars from Europe, the U.S., Canada, Asia, New Zealand and Australia to discuss “ecological, social and cultural contexts of our sonic environments” and deepen our understanding of the role of sound and technology in a rapidly changing world. In her keynote address, Feisst elaborated on ecomusicological perspectives on sonic environments.
A little bit of video about projects in the Herberger Institute engaging USA National Parks in the 100th year
Dr Garth Paine talks about acoustic Ecology in National Parks at about 3:00
We have the opportunity for a post-doctoral position for the Fall semester – possibly longer and would welcome an email of interest with attached CV.
Thanks, Garth
The Listen Project will have a booth at the Global Institute of Sustainability’s 10th anniversary celebrations next Thursday April 14. From 1:30 – 5:00PM. Joining us will be Courtney Brown’s Dinosaur – come and make the Dino Rawr!
