Acoustic Ecology Review is an international journal and publication platform for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and the international sound studies community.

Acoustic Ecology Review (AER) is the evolution of Soundscape, which has been the leading international journal for acoustic ecology since 2001. Acoustic Ecology Review extends and enhances the work of Soundscape to publish accessible and inclusive research in various digital formats, including audio and video. AER is a place for listening, dialogue, and debate. This international peer-reviewed publishing platform is available to all WFAE members and scholars of the global acoustic ecology community.

Acoustic Ecology Review publishes editions of Soundscape: The Journal for Acoustic Ecology, conference proceedings of WFAE and those of WFAE Affiliate Member conferences, special editions, and independent articles.

The publication is conceived as a forum for communication and discussion about interdisciplinary research and practice in the field of Acoustic Ecology. It focuses on the interrelationships between sound, nature, and society. The journal seeks to balance its content among scholarly writings, research, and an active engagement in current soundscape issues, both in and beyond academia. It serves as a voice for the WFAE’s diverse and global community.

​Acoustic Ecology Review is published in partnership with the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and Simon Fraser University. The development of Acoustic Ecology Review on OJS (Open Journal Systems) was supported by the World Soundscape Project Educational Fund.

​Calling for Senior Editors, Associate Editors, and Special Editions, 2024-2025

The Acoustic Ecology Review Editorial Board welcomes new members for 2024-2025. Members can expect to be assigned 2-3 papers per year for peer review. Reviews are expected to be completed within 4 weeks. Senior Editors will also be engaged to review special edition proposals, mentor Associate Editors, and assist in the strategic direction of Acoustic Ecology Review by participating in quarterly meetings with the editorial team.

Please visit this page to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) for the editorial board or submit a proposal for special editions.

Please note submissions for special editions do not guarantee acceptance. The Soundscape Editor-in-Chief (Leah Barclay) or a Senior Editor at Acoustic Ecology Review will contact guest editors within 3 weeks of submission to discuss the proposals. In some instances, guest editors will be encouraged to collaborate and combine their thematic proposals, which continues to foster dialogue and collaboration amongst WFAE affiliates and provides opportunities for Early Career Researchers.
Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology
Soundscape is a place for listening, dialogue, and debate. This international peer-reviewed journal is available to all WFAE members and scholars of the global acoustic ecology community.  In 2023, Soundscape shifted from annual publication to a digital journal and evolved to become Acoustic Ecology Review. The journal platform has a focus on special editions revolving around events and themes and welcomes proposals from guest editors.  ​

View past featured issues below and download the full Soundscape journal database at the bottom of this page. The full database of Soundscape will also be available on Acoustic Ecology Review from 2024.  

Featured Publications, Volume 17 and 18, 2019

Soundscape Database 

​Volume 16 2017 - Sounds Emergent: Diverse Ecologies 
  • Sounds Emergent: Diverse Ecologies II
  • A Sounding Happens: Pauline Oliveros, Expanded Consciousness, and Healing
  • Haiku for Pauline, as Pauline
  • Three Recent Moments with Pauline Oliveros
  • THIS DAY/THAT DAY
  • Resonance of Resistance
  • Augmenting Urban Space with Environmental Soundscapes and Mobile Technologies ​
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Volume 15, Number 1 Fall/Winter 2016 - Sounds Emergent: Diverse Ecologies
  • Sounds Emergent: Diverse Ecologies
  • HVAC, or Political Ecology as Facts of Pressure
  • Earworms
  • Currently, Eight Hundred Landscapes
  • Book Review: Sonic Rupture
  • Field Research: Baby, It's Cold Outside!
  • A Tribute to Jed Speare, Composer and Phonographer (1954-2016)



Volume 14, Number 1 Winter/Spring 2014-2015 - Canadian Perspectives
  • Listening as Reciprocity:  Heidegger’s Appropriation in Being-Time
  • Toward a Sound of Place: Sound, Mapping and Aural Character
  • Cryophonics: Re-Performing the Ice Songs of the Canadian Sub-Arctic
  • The Bell Tower of False Creek: Unsettling the Soundscape of Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge
  • Sound in the Land - Music & the Environment: A Festival Celebrating the Earth

Volume 13, Number 1 Winter/Spring 2013-2014 - Music and Ecologies Of Sound

  • The Ecology of Sound as Experience
  • Sound Object? Sound Event! Ideologies of Sound and the Biopolitics of Music
  • Wayback Sound Machine: Sound Through Time, Space and Place
  • Machine Listening to Soundscapes: Playful Discovery of Sound Languages

Volume 12, Number 1 Winter/Spring 2012-2013 - The Global Composition

  • Acoustic Ecology Considered as a The Early Days and the Future
  • Insights into the Global Composition - Taken at Three Stricken Places in Japan
  • What Should the Soundscape Community Do When Listening to the Soundscapes of Fukushima?
  • Interferences Between Acoustic Perspectives in Enclosed Social Environments of Istanbul
  • GPS Sound Walks, Ecotones and Edge Species; Experiencing Sound within Teri Rueb's Mobile Metaphor
  • Sonic Ecologies: Exploring the Agency of Soundscapes in Ecological Crisis
Volume 11, Number 1 Fall/Winter 2011 - Crossing Listening Paths
  • Exploring Balance & Focus in Acoustic Ecology
  • The Listening Workshop: Nature notes from WFAE 2011, Corfu
  • Schafer's and McLuhan's Listening Paths - Convergences, Crossings & Diversions
  • Biophilic Soundscape Design in the Second Order of Nature
  • Revisiting the Vancouver Soundscape Tape Collection: Motives, Intentions, & Practice
  • Soundscape Models & Compositional Strategies in Acousmatic music
  • Towards a Theory of Museological Soundscape Design: Museology as a 'Listening Path'
  • Listening to the Ecosystem of the Turtle: Enabling the disabled to cross the listening paths of acoustic ecology and environmental education
  • Bringing the Sounds Back to Etz Hayyim: An acoustic profile of a resurrected endangered space
  • The Soundscape of Burning Man
  • A Second Life for Sound: Crossing Sonic Paths in Virtual Worlds
  • Automatically Updated Soundmaps as a tool for environmental monitoring: Research in progress
  • In Memory of Iannis Xenakis​

Download the full Soundscape archive HERE – featuring 20 issues from 2000-2016.