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

A review of "Acoustic Environments in Change & Five Villages"

A review by James Andean of the AEC & FVS publication  can be read at the Agricola webpage:

http://agricola.utu.fi/julkaisut/kirja-arvostelut/index.php?id=1634

Presentations and abstracts of the Koli conference online

Some keynote lectures and individual paper presentations together with abstracts and some full papers from the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Koli 2010 conference have been recorded and added online. Check out the Post-conference page at the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology website and the Keynote panel discussion III:


Five Village Soundscapes – Acoustic Environments in Change from 1970s to 21st century.
Chair Dr, composer R. Murray Schafer.
Participants:
- Professor, composer Barry Truax (Simon Fraser Univ.): The specific model of the Acoustic Community and the 1975 Five Village Soundscapes
- Composer Hildegard Westerkamp: Listening to recordings - Five Village Soundcapes imagined
- Professor Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä (Univ. of Eastern Finland): Studying change and non-change in European villages
- University lecturer Noora Vikman (Univ. of Eastern Finland): Cembra all around the world
- Researcher Heikki Uimonen (Univ. of Tampere): Last of the Blacksmiths - The diverse pasts of Scottish village of Dollar

WFAE conference 2010: Ideologies and Ethics in the Uses and Abuses of Sound

Koli, Finland June 16-19, 2010

The conference will be held at Koli in Eastern Finland and organized by the Department of Finnish Language and Cultural Research (University of Eastern Finland), the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Koli is a plausible site for reflecting upon ideologies, ethics and soundscapes, since it was amongst the key places of the national romantic artist pilgrims in the late 19th century Finland. 

Invited speakers:

Steven Feld
Charles Hirschkind
Bruce Johnson
Anahid Kassabian
Andra McCartney
R. Murray Schafer
Barry Truax
Hildegard Westerkamp