First WFAE Associate Member: SVARAM (India)

The WFAE is delighted to announce that SVARAM has been accepted as its first Associate Member.

SVARAM, based at Auroville in Tamil Nadu, India, brings together the rich tradition of Indian Music and Craft and international ­academic musicology, sound studies and research, contemporary design and innovation with the unique spiritual, futuristic aspiration of Auroville and its experiment of Human Unity.

Having participated over the years in the World Listening Day and thematic sound events and walks, and a co-created performance between Aurelio, (Svaram’s founding executive) and WFAE President Eric Leonardson in the Chicago Arts Center a few years ago, SVARAM is looking forward  to create more awareness and activities in their local context in Tamil Nadu and South Asia about soundscape studies, bioacoustics and sonic activism.

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