WFAE BOARD - AFFILIATE REPRESENTATIVES
The WFAE is composed of seven affiliated groups that together form the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Each affiliate has an elected representative on the governing board. The current representatives are listed below.
The WFAE is composed of seven affiliated groups that together form the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Each affiliate has an elected representative on the governing board. The current representatives are listed below.
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Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology (AFAE)
Dr. Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, composer and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. She specialises in electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology and emerging fields of biology exploring environmental patterns and changes through sound. Her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim internationally by organisations including UNESCO, Ear to the Earth, Al Gore’s Climate Reality and the IUCN. She is currently the director of Biosphere Soundscapes and a research fellow at Griffith University in Australia where she is leading a portfolio of research in acoustic ecology and climate change. Website |
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Canadian Association for Acoustic Ecology (CASE/ACÉS)
As a multidisciplinary artist since the early 1970’s, Charlie Fox has exhibited audio art, experimental film, video art, performance and installation artworks in Canada and abroad. He’s been integral to contemporary theatre, dance and music productions, directed arts documentaries for broadcast, curated art exhibitions and pioneered research in immersive sound. Charlie has co-founded media arts centres and contemporary arts organisations in Canada and continues to be involved with arts collectives and advocacy groups. Devoted to sharing knowledge, he’s been a faculty member at Fleming College, University of Guelph, Ryerson University School of Image Arts, University of Regina and a workshop presenter to artists across Canada and in Japan |
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Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology (FSAE)
Ari Koivumäki started working with sound in 1980 as a sound engineer in the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE). In the 1990s, he become a lecturer in sound design, taking part (alongside his students) in many soundscape projects and publications together with Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology since 1999, both in Finland and in greater Europe. Ari has also presented papers at several conferences related to sound engineering, soundscape studies and ambiance. He received his doctorate from Aalto University, School of Art and Design in 2018, where his dissertation focussed on how to benefit soundscape studies within sound design. Currently, Ari is working as a Principal lecturer of media production in Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). Here, he has participated in R&D programs focusing on digitizing wellbeing services and addressing challenges related to population ageing, in cooperation with companies and public organizations. Website. |
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Hellenic Society for Acoustic Ecology (HSAE)
Andreas Mniestris is an electroacoustic music composer, saxophone player and sound engineer born in Piraeus, Greece. Since 1995 he has lived in Corfu where he teaches at the Music Department of Ionian University as an Associate Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition. He is currently the director of the Music Department’s Electroacoustic Music Research Laboratory [EPHMEE]. Mr. Mniestris is a founding member of the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers and the Hellenic Society for Acoustic Ecology. Website |
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Japanese Association for Soundscape Ecology (JASE)
Dr. Tadahiko Imada is Professor at Hirosaki University in Japan, teaching music education based on the concept of soundscape. He holds a BMus from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo; an MA from Simon Fraser University where he studied as a recipient of the Government of Canada Award; and his PhD is from the University of British Columbia in Canada. Dr. Imada is co-author of A Little Sound Education (together with R. Murray Schafer, Tokyo: Shunjusha, 1996, 2009); Music Education Policy and Implementation: International Perspectives (co-edited with Chi Cheung Leung and Rita Yip, Hirosaki University Press, 2008) and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education (edited by Wayne Bowman and Ana Luca Fruga, Oxford University Press, 2012). Website |
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Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE)
Alex Braidwood is a sound artist, designer, and educator who maintains a practice centered around play and experimentation. He has been an artist in residence in a remote Australian mountain village, on an Iowa farm, at a mid-western biological field research station, and most recently on Isle Royale National Park. He has exhibited sound art, led creative workshops, lectured on his research process, and performed live at a variety of events and venues throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Alex is currently Director of the Artist-in-Residence program at Iowa Lakeside Lab biological field research station and Associate Professor at Iowa State University. Website | Instagram |
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UK and Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC)
Dr. Rob Mackay is an award-winning composer, sound artist and performer. Recent projects have moved towards a cross-disciplinary approach, including geology, soundscape ecology, theatre, audiovisual installation work, and human-computer interaction. His work has been performed in 18 countries (including several performances on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 1 and Radio France), and a number of his pieces have received international awards (Bourges (1997 and 2001), EAR (1999), La Muse en Circuit (2007)). He has held composer residencies at Slovak Radio (Bratislava), La Muse en Circuit (Paris), the Tyrone Guthrie Arts Centre (Ireland), Habitación del Ruido (Mexico City), and CMMAS (Morelia). Website |
WFAE BOARD: EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
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President
Eric Leonardson is an accomplished Chicago-based composer, radio artist, sound designer, instrument inventor, improvisor, visual artist, and teacher. He is Executive Director of the World Listening Project (founded in 2008) and founder (in 2009) of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Website Vice President
Dr. Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, composer and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. She specialises in electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology and emerging fields of biology exploring environmental patterns and changes through sound. Her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim internationally by organisations including UNESCO, Ear to the Earth, Al Gore’s Climate Reality and the IUCN. She is currently the director of Biosphere Soundscapes and a research fellow at Griffith University in Australia where she is leading a portfolio of research in acoustic ecology and climate change. Website |
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Treasurer
Tristan Louth-Robins is an Australian artist working principally in the medium of sound art, composition and acoustic ecology. Ideas of sound and its signification are key elements in Louth-Robins’ practice, traversing the spaces between the visual and aural his work is realised through recordings, installation, visual art and performance. He is interested in sound and its associative implications - including its relationship to the surrounding environment, objects, technology and urban spaces. Since 2011, he has facilitated the Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island Sound Map (FKISM). Website |
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Secretary
Jesse Budel is a composer-performer and sound artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. He recently completed a PhD at Elder Conservatorium of Music, The University of Adelaide (with an Australian Postgraduate Award), focussing on adapting soundscape ecology frameworks and methodologies to creative process, applied in the production of works responding to engagement with specific sites, and related ecosystems and soundscapes. In 2017, Jesse was an inaugural Carclew Fellowship recipient, which supported a professional development tour of the US and Canada focussed on acoustic ecology and ecoacoustic research and practice. In 2018, he received acknowledgement for Best Student Paper (Creative Stream) at the International Ecoacoustics Congress in Brisbane. Currently, Jesse is a sessional staff member at The University of Adelaide, and also serves as the Secretary for the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Website |
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Past Treasurer and Past President
Nigel Frayne (1952–2018) was a sound designer working with museums, aquariums, science and exhibition centres, theme parks and arts and leisure precincts from San Diego to West Papua, Bunbury (Western Australia) to Singapore, Genoa to Auckland. In 1996 he joined the WFAE and formed Resonant Designs, specialising in Soundscape and Electroacoustic Design. Website |
WFAE COMMUNICATIONS
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Editor-in-Chief: Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology
Dr. Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, composer and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. She specialises in electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology and emerging fields of biology exploring environmental patterns and changes through sound. Her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim internationally by organisations including UNESCO, Ear to the Earth, Al Gore’s Climate Reality and the IUCN. She is currently the director of Biosphere Soundscapes and a research fellow at Griffith University in Australia where she is leading a portfolio of research in acoustic ecology and climate change. Website |
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Past Editor-in-Chief: Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology
Dr. Phylis Johnson is Professor of Sound & New Media in the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is Editor of Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology and the Editor of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media. She serves as machinima reviews editor for The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. She has written four books in media studies, as well as numerous chapters and articles dealing with issues in sound, new media and media studies. She operates a sim within Second Life on behalf of her university, in partnership with the University of Western Australia, with dedicated space to a several-layered interactive in-world lab used for teaching sound studies. |
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Past Editor-in-Chief: Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology
Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. She uses environmental sounds almost exclusively as the "language" for her compositional work, much of which comments on aspects of the soundscape and on our state of listening. Born in Germany, she moved to Canada in 1968 and in the early '70s worked with Canadian composer Murray Schafer on the World Soundscape project. She is a founding member of the World Forum on Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and continues to compose, travel, and lecture all over the world. She remains associated with Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she lives and works. Website |
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Coordinator, Soundscape Explorations
Gary Ferrington is Past WFAE Secretary and Webmaster; he continues as coordinator of Soundscape Explorations, a directory of short videos related to acoustic ecology. Ferrington retired from the University of Oregon in 1998 and has since become a freelance journalist focusing on contemporary classical music in the US state of Oregon. His background is in the field of Instructional Systems Technology and Cinema studies with a MS degree in IST from the University of Southern California. |