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Fall 2024 Weekly Environmental Listening Workshop @ ASU Tempe

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Weekly Community Environmental Listening Meetup :
12:00 – 13:00 Wednesday

Join the group

📅 Date: Every Wednesday from September to December
🕒 Time: Wednesday 12 – 1 pm
📍 Location: Hayden Library Information Desk (On the first floor, just inside the entrance opposite the MU)

Join us for an immersive weekly session where we delve into the art of listening to the environment in which we live, using three distinct modes of listening:

  1. Passive Listening: Absorb the natural soundscape around you and its subtle nuances.
  2. Directed Listening: Tune into specific sounds with deliberate attention.
  3. Active Listening: Listen to the relationships between sounds to understand the way they interact with each other and with the built environment around you

Why Attend?

  • Enhance your auditory skills
  • Gain deeper insight into acoustic environments
  • Collaborate with fellow enthusiasts and experts – join our community
  • Develop more agency and stewardship around climate change
  • Train to become a community environmental listening leader in your community

Who Should Attend?

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Trainers and educators may find it valuable as an addition to their classrooms
  • Acoustic ecology enthusiasts will revel in the opportunity to share the experience of communal listening
  • Anyone interested in deepening their engagement with the earth on which they live and its butty and subtlety
  • Anyone interested in learning the techniques we teach and then leading environmental listening groups in their own communities. we will support you with a field guide and ongoing mentoring.

What to Bring?

  • An open mind and eager ears!
  • Comfortable attire
  • a hat for the sun
  • Water!

To Register:

Register

Let’s tune in to the world and explore the rich tapestry of sound together!

Hearing or Listening?

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Psychoacoustic is key to out listening experience

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

Read the article here

Dr. Abby Aresty as a Post-Doctoral scholar at the Acoustic Ecology Lab @ ASU

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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.

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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.

Green is good for you

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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

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Dr Feisst keynote speaker at Sonic Environments Conference

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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.

 

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