---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [ncralist] Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) From: "Ken Zakreski" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, April 29, 2009 14:43 To: "NCRA general list" <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
For anyone not going to NCRC, this look like fun... Gabriola will be very nice this time of year. Ken Gabriola Island welcomes World Sound Ecologists Submitted Article Tuesday, April 28 2009 The Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE), http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/CASE/Homepage in collaboration with the Lulu Performing Arts Society, is very pleased to announce the 2009 CASE Retreat and Symposium, which will take place at The Haven on Gabriola Island this coming June 12th 14th. CASE is the Canadian affiliate of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/home/ an international association of organizations and individuals who share a common concern with the state of the worlds soundscapes. Members represent a multi-disciplinary spectrum of individuals engaged in the study of the social, cultural and ecological aspects of the sonic environment. The symposium will gather together people from all over the world active in the acoustic ecology field -- a group that is mostly comprised of sound artists, but also includes biologists, geographers, architects, poets, visual artists, philosophers, and writers, among others. Gabriola as a location is a first for CASE, and has been chosen for the opportunity that its rural setting provides for deeper listening. The symposium will feature four keynote speakers, all seminal figures in the field of acoustic ecology: Keiko Torigoe (Japan), a musicologist, soundscape researcher and a professor at the University of the Sacred Heart, in Tokyo; Helmi Jarviluoma (Finland), chair person of the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology; Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver), a pioneer in the sound ecology movement, and a founding member of World Soundscape Project in the early 70s under the direction of Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer; and Eric Powell (Vancouver), a composer and sound artist working with the interrelationship between space, place and sound. Speakers will present their own work, and share ideas and insights relevant to sound ecology today. The symposium will also feature other artists work, and plenty of opportunities for lively discussions of topics related to sound ecology. In addition, several Gabriola youth will have an extraordinary opportunity to develop and create short sound art pieces to be presented at the symposium. These pieces will be the outcome of a series of workshops facilitated by Kelly Price, that are designed to engage youth in analyzing and studying the acoustic environment of Gabriola Island through recordings and sound journals. Tickets and passes for the symposium will be on sale soon. For more information, please contact Leah Hokanson at 247-9854, or email [email protected].
