Tunteita herättävät äänet -haastattelu

Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelän haastattelu AEC- ja SoCS-projekteista

uudessa Saima-lehdessä 4:2011:

 

http://www.uef.fi/saima/saimajuttu4-4-2011

 

 

 

Akustinen kommunikaatio ja äänimaiseman tutkimus

Akustinen kommunikaatio & äänimaiseman tutkimus

Radio Moreenin Tiedettä Tampereelta -ohjemassa käsiteltiin otsikossa mainittuja
aiheita 8.11.2011. Ohjelmaa voi kuunnella alla olevasta linkistä.

Acoustic Communication & Soundscape Studies

Here's a radio programme of Radio Moreeni dealing with different aspects
of the sonic environment and the research of it (only in Finnish, sorry).

http://moreeni.uta.fi/Podcast/Tiedetta_Tampereelta

Heikki Uimonen

The Italian release of the book Acoustic Environments in Change

 The Italian release of the book Acoustic Environments in Change

 

On a warm late spring evening, the 18^th of May at Villa Lante, a group of Italian and Finnish scholars, artists, and among others the Finnish ambassador Petri Tuomi-Nikula, walked and listened to the acoustic horizon on the hill of Gianicolo in Rome. They were led by Doctor Noora Vikman. It was interesting, how different the atmosphere was a few steps below when compared to the top of the hill.

  After the discussion there were four small presentations. First professor Helmi Järviluoma introduced the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology, professor Albert Mayr, then said a few words about Forum fur Klanglandschaft – the mid-European soundscape society. Noora Vikman presented the basic facts about the project and publication Acoustic Environments in Change; the cultural journalist, Dr Antonello Colimberti finished the event discussing the AEC publication – the book was from his perspective most welcome, and actual.

   Wine and snacks were kindly offered by Villa Lante, and the Finnish guests Vikman and Järviluoma got to know many Italian soundscape enthusiasts from Rome and Bologna, among other places. After the event the Finnish composer Eero Hämeenniemi, who happened to be staying at Villa Lante, kindly introduced a fantastic place to eat "home-cooked" Italian food, Da Bugatina at Testaccio.

   SoCS project workers then had to start to prepare to the next  demands – for the conference in Firenze. Our warm thanks go to Albert Mayr and Simo Örmä, among others, for helping to organise the event.

Helmi Järviluoma

A soundscape evening in Villa Lante, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae

Welcome to Rome on 18th of May 2011!

We are happy to be invited to Villa Lante to present our previous research Acoustic Environments in Change and introduce listening walks to the audience in Rome.

http://www.irfrome.org/sf/

Incontro Paesaggi sonori a cura di Albert Mayr (Forum per il paesaggio sonoro, FKL)
- ore 17: Passeggiata d'ascolto guidata da Noora Vikman nei dintorni di Villa Lante
- ore 18: Presentazione del volume Acoustic Environments in Change / Five Village Soundscape a cura di H. Järviluoma, M. Kytö, B. Truax, H. Uimonen, N. Vikman.

Intervengono Hans Ulrich Werner e Antonello Colimberti

SoCS and Community Planning

What a pleasant surprise: when arriving at the office today, there was a fresh Soundscape theme number of the journal ”Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu” (The Finnish Journal of Urban Studies, 2011:1, vol. 49) in the post box. The SoCS project is well represented: Heikki Uimonen’s article on listening walks and recording as means of qualitative evaluation of soundscapes; Jani Päivänen is interviewing Helmi Järviluoma on soundscape and social memory, and last but not least: a very positive review of the book “Acoustic Environments in Change”. This review “European life in the light of soundscape research” is written by Timo Cantell. The journal includes one article in English by an wellknown colleague Per Hedfors, and Peter G. Howell on “Urban sonotopes – towards a participatory design”.

- Helmi

Keep an Ear on -symposium in Florence

Here's a link to an interesting future Soundscape event

Florence on 20th to 22nd of May 2011

http://www.paesaggiosonoro.it/keepanearon/programma.php

Reading and writing...

... and reading again!

 

I'm in a middle of a writing period and here's my literary companions for the next fortnight: some urban studies, a little bit of methodology, a reader, a newsjournal, two dictionaries and a bundle of soundscape studies. The rest of my desk space is flooded by field diaries and note books, mind maps, copies of Turkish housing laws and interview transcriptions.

 

If my mind will stay clear and moods high I'll soon have a manuscript ready of an article about housing cooperative Ata-2 and auditory culture in Cengelköy, Istanbul. Wish me luck.

 

Enjoy your weekend,

Meri