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Spring 2018 Newsletter

Spring 2018 Newsletter

Dear Listening Community,

What better time is there for listening to the changing soundscape than spring? Across the region, springtime fills us with hope and anticipation. For the Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology, after many months of reflective conversations and hard work, plans for a new chapter in our group are finally blooming into action. We are eager to share news about MSAE’s nonprofit status, leadership, and opportunities including new soundscape studies and public programs, with themes of social justice, inclusion and healing at the heart of many initiatives.

The Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology invites you join our efforts.

We are building on the strength of past activities and relationships, gearing up for a new year of public events in our region’s urban and natural soundscapes within a new framework. After several years of robust activity in the twelve Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, a number of diverse practitioners who identity with Acoustic Ecology determined that an independent non-profit umbrella entity serving the region would be an effective structure for sharing resources, funding programming and amplifying the impact of public engagement work and academic study.

After much thought and discussion among chapter members and co-chairs, the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology has begun the process of establishing its own membership organization and will be an Affiliate Organization of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE).

The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology remains dedicated to exploring the role of sound in natural habitats and human societies, while promoting public dialogue concerning the identification, preservation, and restoration of natural and cultural sound environments. In addition, we will now be positioned to seek additional funding and create programming and projects specifically aimed at empowering new communities by increasing the sensory capacity of its individuals.

One exciting offering the Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology has immediately, is paid work as part of MSAE’s Summer Soundwalk series for the Chicago Park District’s Night Out In the Parks program. If you or someone you know has skills in audio, video, communications, marketing, or community engagement and curriculum design, please let us know.

We have an exciting year ahead and don’t want you or your family and friends to miss out. Read on!

Sincerely,
Eric Leonardson and Jonathan Eiseman, Co-chairs
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology


Reflections: An Evening with Hildegard Westerkamp
Night Out In The Parks 2018 Summer Soundwalk Series

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  • Arcana Editions Arcana Editions presents books and scores by Canadian composer, educator, and soundscape researcher Raymond Murray Schafer (1933-2021). Many are unobtainable through other sources, including Schafer’s newer works.
  • Handbook For Acoustic Ecology Barry Truax, editor. Second Edition, 1999. Originally published by the World Soundscape Project, Simon Fraser University, and ARC Publications, 1978.
  • HUSH CITY MOBILE LAB Hush City is a free, citizen science mobile app, which empowers people to identify and assess quiet areas in cities as to create an open access, web-based map of quiet areas, with the potential of orientating plans and policies for healthier living…
  • Listening to Two Neighborhoods by Elizabeth Burke-Dain for Medium, 2018 on Norman W. Long’s soundwalk hosted by Compund Yellow.
  • REAL: Remote Environmental Assessment Laboratory With the growth and expansion of human populations has come an increasingly greater need to understand the dynamics of ecosystems and their complex interactions. As urban areas continue to expand, fragile surrounding ecosystems are often affected…
  • Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology A scholarly peer-reviewed journal produced by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, now in digital form and available to all.
  • Soundwalking in Chicago's Parks soundwalking as ecological practice, an introduction to the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology’s public programs by the Chicago Parks Foundation.

Friends of MSAE

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  • Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies
  • Indiana Dunes National Park
  • Inferno Mobile Recording Studio
  • International Society of Ecoacoustics
  • Mixage Fou
  • NEXT.cc
  • Night Out In the Parks | Chicago Park District
  • Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
  • Radius
  • SAIC SOUND
  • Singing Insects Monitoring Program
  • The EcoVoice Project
  • Wild Things
  • World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
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