Category: Community

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.

Aresty Pic

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.

SxSW – VR Tools for Global Environmental Stewardship

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In the face of unprecedented ecological problems we must find new ways to encourage environmental awareness, engagement and stewardship. Listening is a critical sense that provides us with rich information about the environment, yet is often overlooked in visually dominant cultures. This panel brings leading international organizations, thinkers and artists together to discuss a series of projects that use sound in powerful ways. The panel explores collaborations with indigenous and other communities and elaborates on how emerging digital technology and rich media environments generate environmental engagement through embodied experiences of presence in remote natural environments. The panel addresses recently developed VR installations, multimodal data sensing and new streaming technologies that facilitate virtual, immersive experiences to build global communities engaged with the remote wilderness of American Southwest deserts, the central Amazon rainforest, and the Australian bush. – See more at: Please VOTE for us

http://ecorift.com

Questions Answered

How can we use new technologies to develop wide environmental and climate awareness?
How can we use Acoustic Ecology to teach sustainability?
How can the Oculus Rift be used as a platform for environmental awareness?
How are artists, scientists and NGO’s collaborating to develop community embedded programs of change?
How does the arts facilitate community engagement and stewardship of climate issues?
Speakers

Garth Paine Arizona State University
Leah Barclay Self Employed
Sabine Feisst Arizona State University
– See more at: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/46040#sthash.bZrili4E.dpuf

SxSW panels – Need your Vote

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Please vote for our SxSW panels http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/46045

Additional Supporting Materials
http://www.balance-unbalance2015.org

Questions Answered

How can engaged sound art change communal perception?
How can artists, sciences and NGO’s collaborate to build environmental stewardship?
How do artists act as thought leaders in communities, turning environmental risk into social capital?
How can the arts build community engagement in climate action?
How do we build behaviors that secure sustainable natural resources?
Speakers

Leah Barclay Leah Barclay
Sabine Feisst Arizona State University
Garth Paine Arizona State University
Niyanta Spellman Rainforest Partnership
– See more at: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/46045#sthash.UiNYAwWU.dpuf

yellow-legged frog in Sequoia

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I am not sure these are yellow-legged frogs, but there were thousands of them at singing at Halstead Meadow.  In the recording I have it is amazing how they all start, sing for a period of time and then stop synchronously!  they do this several times over the course of 2+ hours.