Join members of the American and Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, and World Listening Project for a soundwalk at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Participate in Listening For the Future: The American Society for Acoustic Ecology Symposium and Retreat. Learn how to explore a natural environment through sound.
Time: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Date: Saturday, July 10
Location: Paul [...]
The bimonthly WFAE Newsletter is now online for May-June, 2010. This publication is a supplement to the annual Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. Its mission is to make available in a timely manner, news, events, and announcements from the WFAE Board, WFAE Affiliates, and other sources.
Each newsletter includes:
Affiliate Reports
Events Calendar: Updates on current world-wide [...]
Many people are learning and talking about Gordon Hempton’s One Square Inch of Silence book and project at Olympic National Park. The MSAE is proud to have Elliott Berger as one of its members who also serves on the board [...]
Tagged acoustic ecology, board, books, Elliott Berger, Gordon Hempton, members, membership, projects, silence, soundscapeThe destruction of Chicago’s Gropius architecture and Bauhaus legacy has begun. As reported here in August, the City of Chicago destroyed nearly all of the landscaping around the Michael Reese Hospital campus—the 37-acre site that was purchased by the city for construction of an Olympic Village in 2016. Members of the Midwest Society for Acoustic [...]
Tagged acoustic ecology, architecture, design, health, history, Michael Reese Hospital, soundscape, soundwalk, urbanGiant Ear is a weekly, two-hour webcast radio show of
“…soundscape recordings, (wo)man-on-the-street public interest
interviews, live on-site sound explorations, special guests, and more.”
Curated by MSAE founder and director, Eric Leonardson, the August 30th Giant Ear will feature the recent Chicago Phonography performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Here/Not
There” series, sounds from the Locus Sonus sound [...]
MSAE member Dan Goston writes that the Michael Reese Hospital Campus is an unique piece of Chicago’s great architectural legacy located in its historic Bronzeville neighborhood. Tragically, and even absurdly, the MRH Campus faces what increasingly appears to be demolition by the City of Chicago in order to make for an uncertain future Olympic village. The Gropius in Chicago Coalition and other organizations is attempting to save the MRH. Dan concludes with a list of potential impacts that demolition will have upon the acoustic ecology of the city and region.
Tagged abatement, acoustic ecology, architecture, Bauhaus, Bronzeville, Chicago, Chicago2016, design, Gropius, history, Michael Reese Hospital, neighborhood, noise pollution, preservation, R. Murray Schafer, soundwalkIn this article by Michael Miner, published in the Chicago Reader, it’s hard to understand how the author, Michael Miner, can be “agnostic” about the debate when plenty of evidence exists to prove that infrasound (very low frequency vibration) can and does cause significant health problems.
Tagged electricity, health, industry, infrasound, NIMBY, noise, protest, renewable energy, Wisconsin
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