Affiliate Update: Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE)

Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) AGM
CASE had its Annual General Meeting on Jan 6, 2021 and said farewell to Eric Powell and Tyler Kinnear, thanking them for their outstanding contributions to CASE. CASE welcomes Milena Dromeva and Wendalyn Bartley as new board members and looks forward to growth in the new year.

“Listening in the Time of COVID”
The CASE project, “Listening in the Time of COVID”, congratulates the three winning contest submissions: First Place - PrOphecy Sun, Spiraled Mothering; Second Place - Shumalia Hemani, Perils of Heavy Rainfall; and, Third Place - Diego Bermudez Chamberland, Ma Fenêtre à Moi.

This was a Canada-wide call for original soundworks related to the current pandemic; the three selected soundscape compositions can be listened to at Listening in the Time of COVID.

New Adventures in Sound Art
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) are planning two online participatory events in 2021 that involve public engagement across Canada and internationally in soundscape recording and discussion. The first will have online meetup workshops culminating in livestreams of daybreak soundscapes for the Reveil broadcast on May 1 organized by Sound Camp and the Acoustic Commons groups in the UK. The second will also have meetup workshops leading to a soundscape broadcast on World Listening Day (July 18). More details to follow at https://www.naisa.ca/
Darren Copeland (NAISA) [email protected]

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The World Soundscape Project and Barry Truax
Recent WSP Database additions (guest password from [email protected]):

• online Tutorial for sound terminology, theory and practice, across multiple disciplines with 20 modules cross-referenced to the Handbook for Acoustic Ecology
• 40 recordings from Vancouver in 2020 plus Stockholm recordings from 1997
• 1978 radio documentary about Murray Schafer by Norma Beecroft
• Recent Soundscape composition: Barry Truax, Rainforest Raven (2020), in stereo and 8-channels, featuring West Coast recordings, available on sonus.ca and www.sfu.ca/~truax​