The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) is happy to announce plans to host an international, in-person conference in March 2023. We will be gathering at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida USA for three days of presentations, workshops, and concerts.
The 2023 conference coincides with the 30th anniversary of the WFAE, founded in 1993, during 'Tuning of the World: The First International Conference on Acoustic Ecology' at the Banff Centre for the Arts. We encourage you to start making plans to join us. Please note the following dates: July 18, 2022 - call for proposals released October 1, 2022 - proposals due November 1, 2022 - accepted proposals notified March 23 to 26, 2023 - conference dates Dear WFAE Affiliate and Individual Members,
I write to inform you of the upcoming 2022 WFAE Annual General Meeting, which will be held on Saturday 7 May at 12:00PM GMT/UTC (translation to your own time zones can be done at TimeAndDate.com). Following a successful online AGM last year, the meeting will be held on Zoom. Additionally, with the recent review and ratification of the WFAE Bylaws, the Executive positions – President, Vice-president, Secretary and Treasurer – are now elected at each AGM by the general membership. Position descriptions, drawn from the Bylaws, are as follows:
To register your interest in attending, please fill out this Zoom registration form. To optionally make nominations for WFAE Executive positions, please fill out this Google Form. An agenda will be sent in due course. Thank you for your consideration, with kind regards, Jesse Budel WFAE Secretary The WFAE has been undertaking a review of its Bylaws, last ratified in June 1998. Following a consultation period, the finalised amendments are to be voted upon by WFAE membership. Given the international reach of the organisation, voting will be coordinated via an online Google form at: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdfCI31gZe.../viewform....
Members of WFAE Affiliate Organisations and WFAE Individual Members are eligible to vote. Each amendment is arranged sequentially under its relevant section of the Bylaws, accompanied by an explanation (in parentheses) of changes to each clause and a simple 'yes' or 'no' response for members to cast their vote. For further context, the full Bylaw Review document is available here: https://docs.google.com/.../18bGb7Wt1xuNFSbwRl4kb.../edit... As per current bylaws (9.2), each amendment requires an "affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the members" to be approved. There are 30 amendments for consideration, which should take between 10-20 minutes to complete. Voting will close on 20 February 2022. Thank you for your participation, with kind regards, Jesse Budel WFAE Secretary 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. The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology is saddened at the loss of Raymond Murray Schafer, who died at his home in Southern Ontario on Saturday, August 14, 2021. He was 88 years of age and is survived by his wife and mezzo-soprano, Eleanor James. Schafer leaves us with many invaluable gifts, a legacy of music, ideas, and literature for us to examine and celebrate. He will be remembered as one of Canada’s most influential composers and ‘father of acoustic ecology’. Obituraries have been published by the CBC, New York Times, Times Colonist, The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. Many friends and colleagues in the Acoustic Ecology community have shared their memories of Schafer:
More tributes will be shared as they become available. To contribute your own memories of Schafer's life and legacy, please contact WFAE Jesse Budel at secretary@wfae.net Dear WFAE Affiliate and Individual Members,
As you may be aware, the WFAE is in the process of reviewing its Bylaws, which were last ratified in June 1998. The next stage of this process, as per the current Bylaws, is to provide the WFAE membership with the opportunity to provide feedback on the current proposed amendments. Due to impracticalities in organising a meeting for this purpose as set out in the current Bylaws (whether in person or online, coordinating across multiple time zones for our worldwide organisation), the Board has agreed that an online forum is appropriate for this next stage of consultation. As such, a publicly accessible Google Doc of the current Bylaws and proposed amendments has been developed, in which members can provide feedback via comments. This can be accessed here. Amendments/Additions to the document are highlighted in green, with a comment box to the side of each proposed amendment for you to add commentary. Any additional commentary is also welcome. To allow for sufficient feedback from current WFAE Affiliate and Individual members, this consultation period will now close Monday 2 August 2021. Thanks for your input, with kind regards, Jesse Budel WFAE Secretary The WFAE is delighted to endorse this year's World Listening Day activities facilitated by the World Listening Project. Since its inception in 2010, thousands of people from six continents have participated in World Listening Day. July 18th is the birth date of renowned Canadian composer, music educator, and author, R. Murray Schafer. With the World Soundscape Project he developed the fundamental ideas and practices of acoustic ecology in the 1970s. These inform the current, burgeoning interest in our changing acoustic environment. Thus, World Listening Day honors Schafer’s contribution to understanding our world. In 2020 we were forced to pause by an invisible virus. This brought countless consequences to the environment, and to the sonic environment in particular. New acoustic horizons emerged, signaling times of unquietness and global change, and requiring our listening awareness to evolve. The theme for 2021 “The Unquiet Earth” is an invitation to reflect on and engage with the constant murmur of the Earth, sounds beyond the threshold of human hearing, to remind ourselves that we share this mysterious and awesome planet. Small, hidden, subterranean, aerial, underwater, infra and ultrasonic sounds, inaudible to the naked ear, can bring a new, potentially hopeful, perspective on the future of the planet and humanity. Listening as activism encourages us to question our attitudes as listeners as we aim to construct a more inclusive and empathetic new world. Join the unquiet revolution! Listeners of all kinds are invited to host and participate in three activity types:
Deadline for 24-hour Steamed event: June 19, 2021. Deadline for local and personal events and celebrations: July 17, 2021. The World Listening Project also welcomes everyone to share news, ideas, and questions about participation on their Facebook Page and Facebook Group. Visit the World Listening Day 2021 page on the World Listening Project website for more information.
The WFAE Library is now live at https://wfae-library.librarika.com/, cataloguing a diverse range of acoustic ecology resources and activities!
To make further submissions to the Library, please visit wfae.net/library or contact WFAE Secretary Jesse Budel at secretary@wfae.net The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) is pleased to announce that its first online Annual General Meeting will take place on Friday 22:00 UK time / UTC 21:00 on 23 April, 2021 during BEAST FEaST 2021: Recalibration, a festival of phonography and sonic art with a focus on our changing global soundscape in pandemic.
Please register for access to the Zoom meeting at https://adelaide.zoom.us/.../tZYsf-igrj4oGdK9y8DwI... We invite all WFAE Individual members, Affiliate Organization members and their representatives, and Associated Organizations to participate. We are honored to be partners with BEAST FEaST and UK and Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC), our UK/Ireland affiliate. This international event will provide our membership and leadership of our Affiliate Organizations an opportunity to learn and inform one another of ongoing efforts, recent achievements and future planning. The festival takes place online in partnership with the WFAE, BEAST and the UK/Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC), 22 April - 24 April. Featured artists are Hildegard Westerkamp, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Chris Watson, Pete Stollery, and Yang Yeung. The World Listening Project's signature initiative, World Listening Day, was established in 2010 as an international day of awareness for the burgeoning and diversifying interests in our changing acoustic environment through local and online activities. The date, July 18, honors the renowned Canadian composer, music educator, and author, R. Murray Schafer on his birthday. Each year a respected practitioner creates a theme to inspire projects for World Listening Day. 2020's theme was ‘The Collective Field’, created by internationally acclaimed Wild Sanctuary's Katherine Krause. Many organisations and individuals participated in this year's WLD. Activities include a live stream of the Tokyo Phonographers Union, CRISAP's Acts Of Air exhibition series, a video feature by the ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore, the second edition of Leah Barclay's Listening In The Wild live stream series, and projects celebrating WLD in the Disquiet Junto group. The theme for 2021 “The Unquiet Earth” is an invitation to reflect on and engage with the constant murmur of the Earth, sounds beyond the threshold of human hearing, to remind ourselves that we share this mysterious and awesome planet. Small, hidden, subterranean, aerial, underwater, infra and ultrasonic sounds, inaudible to the naked ear, can bring a new, potentially hopeful, perspective on the future of the planet and humanity. Listening as activism encourages us to question our attitudes as listeners as we aim to construct a more inclusive and empathetic new world. Join the unquiet revolution! Help the WLP share and grow participation in this global community event by adding your information to this short online survey. We welcome everyone to share news, ideas, and questions about participation in comments on the World Listening Day 2021 page, in their Facebook Page and their Facebook Group. |
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