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The World Forum for Acoustic-Ecology (WFAE) is a professional organisation of individuals and institutions with diverse interests and expertise who share a common interest in the study of scientific, social, and cultural aspects of natural and human made sound environments. The WFAE home page (click> http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAEHomePage) is a collaborative effort with the University of Oregon's College of Education. It consists of a list of announcements and events, educational resources, noise and acoustics issues and policies, organisations and centres, professional collaboration sites, reading resources such as full text articles, essays or journals, sound archives, resources for special topics, and technical resources.
The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), founded in 1993, is an international association of affiliated organisations and individuals, who share a common concern with the state of the world soundscape as an ecologically balanced entity. The WFAE members represent an interdisciplinary spectrum of individuals engaged in the study of the scientific, social, and cultural aspects of natural and human made sound environments.
To learn more about acoustic-ecology read Barry Truax's article The World Soundscape Project(<click). Kunstradio has recently produced an excellent German-English web radio presentation titled Vancouver Soundscape (RealAudio). Of general interest is National Public Radio's Lost and Found Sound (<click) explores soundmarks of the world today.
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Double CD: Soundscape Vancouver 1996 versus Vancouver 1973 (Canada) Cambridge Street Records 1997. With participation of Hildegard Westerkamp and Barry Truax.
Andra Mc Cartney illustrates different soundwalks (click>) : http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/andra/soundwalk/default.html
Soundscapes around the world = Sonic world maps the planet with sound > http://www.sonarchy.org/main.html
Handbook for Acoustic Ecology by Barry Truax: CD-ROM edition > http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/handbook .html
Touring Exhibition of Sound Environments (UK) The Touring Exhibition of Sound Environments(<click) web site in the United Kingdom provides an exploration of soundscapes throughout the United Kingdom.
Different environments or regions have different soundscapes: sounds which reflect, amongst other things; domestic life, dialects, industrial & agricultural processes, and the natural environment. TESE (Touring Exhibition of Sound Environments) is visiting different regions (touring) in order to make comparative studies of various soundscapes relative to its social and ecological make-up.
TESE makes several visits to each region over a period of 12 months, allowing for seasonal changes in the soundscape. During this period, hundreds of soundscape recordings are made, interviews conducted, and projects are devised which invite the direct involvement of local people. At the end of this period, materials from these activities are collated to form the basis of an interpretive exhibition (or several smaller exhibitions) which take place in a suitable municipal space, (eg. museum, arts & community centres). The exhibition describes that region primarily through the sounds it has collected, along with supporting visual media and interpretive texts.
Each exhibition attempts to convey each place's sonic diversity, its natural and cultural specificity within the soundscape, as well as recognising those sounds that are more globally widespread. TESE intends to provide an ecological context in which relationships can be made between the soundscape, it's communities (human and non-human), habitats and resources. Subsequent exhibitions will accumulate by apportioning space to the sounds and materials of previous people and places, facilitating an acoustic interchange - whereby one community can come to know something of another through it's soundscape.
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SOUNDWALK (ONLINE ATELIER)Hildegard
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