Submit your proposal:
The Gobal Composition 2018. Conference for Sound, Ecology, and Media Culture

From 4-7 October 2018 the scientific-artistic conference „The Global 
Composition“ will take place again on Mediacampus Dieburg (Darmstadt UAS), 
Germany. Subtitle: „Sound, Ecology, and Media Culture“. Our keynotes shall deal 
with topics like computer games, gender and voice, aircraft noise and 
children’s cognitive development, practices and methods of auditory perception.

Check out our keynote lectures and keynote workshops :
http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018/keynotes-and-program

You want to join? Check our call for submissions. Your proposals will be double 
blind peer reviewed by our committee: 
http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018/call-for-submissions

All accepted papers will be published in our conference proceedings. The 
conference is organized by the Research Centre for Digital Communication and 
Media Innovation (Darmstadt UAS), the Master’s program International Media 
Cultural Work (Darmstadt UAS), and endorsed by the World Forum for Acoustic 
Ecology.
We’ll, too, have panel discussions and open workshops to discuss acoustic 
ecology’s future and generational change, in terms of social aims, contents and 
foci, educational approaches, intellectual frameworks, artistic methods, 
political strategies etc.

Within the conference’s framework, we welcome scholarly, scientific and 
artistic submissions from the whole field connecting acoustic ecology and media 
culture, including the topic of facilitation and education. We encourage the 
latter to go beyond notions which identify education merely as the instruction 
of a subject mastery, but instead understand it as implying to a large extent 
individual and communal maturation aspects as well as aspects of the formation 
and strengthening of a personality, group or culture. In this sense, the Latin 
root of education, educere, means to lead forth; the Latin root of culture, 
colere, means to plant and foster. Both focus on sustainability.

We’ll also be inquiring about the major aspects of the generational change in 
acoustic ecology and Soundscape Studies as well as the role of new audio 
technologies and Augmented/Virtual Reality as facilitators of auditory 
awareness.

The broad spectrum of our call is supposed to bring together a diversity of 
approaches to the following suggested topics and beyond:
1. Ecological awareness and the furthering of listening
2. Listening, and the ecology of the senses
3. Media critique and listening
4. Methods and notions of listening
5. Educational approaches based on soundscape listening
6. Intercultural and diversity based approaches to soundscape and acoustic 
ecology facilitation
7. Acoustic ecology, media culture and gender
8. Further developments of soundscape and Acoustic Ecology facilitation in 
order to meet recent or future necessities and desiderata
9. Experiences with official curricula of soundscape and/or acoustic ecology 
education
10. Auditory media aesthetic education for the elderly/for socially 
marginalized groups
11. Soundscape education/facilitation for youths between the age of 12 and 20
12. Sound(scape) design in media and urban space, and its influence on the 
furthering of a listening culture
13. Soundscape’s role in media culture and cultural media
14. Strategic cultural aspects of listening in media aesthetic education
15. Aspects of politics in soundscape education/facilitation
16. New audio technologies and Augmented/Virtual Reality as facilitators of 
auditory awareness
17. Critique and perspectives of the technologization of listening/soundmaking 
in respect to an auditory media culture

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You might want to consider staying for extra days to enjoy your time in one of 
the most beautiful regions in Germany.

Cordially, Sabine Breitsameter
and the Global Composition 2018 organizational team

Contact: http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018/contact
Website: http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018


Prof. Sabine Breitsameter
Sound und Medienkultur/Sound and Media Culture

Leitung/Director of Master International Media Cultural Work (IMC)
Soundscape- & Environmental Media Lab/3D Audio and Fulldome Media Research

Fachbereich Media/Department of Media
Hochschule Darmstadt/Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Mediencampus Dieburg
Max Planck-Str. 2
64807 Dieburg, Germany

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