Tomorrow I'm heading to Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, to join forces with the Imago Bubo Rural Collective crew and work in the mediation programme of their project Caravana del Cine.

I'll be facilitating an introductory workshop on listening and acoustic ecology in two locations there: the villages of Nuñomoral and Martilandrán. The workshop is proposed as a series of collective practices of listening and field recording to understand soundscape as part of the territory, of collective memory, and of the current state of the environment.

We will engage the soundscape from a situated perspective: conceptualizing ourselves in the context of our sonic environment and reflecting on its transformation. We will work with our memory of the environment - both individual and collective, both climatic and acoustic - and the loss implicit in its transformation. We will attempt to provide an answer to the question: How to register a sound which can no longer be heard? Which is nothing but a distant echo of itself?

(((o)))

https://acousticmirror.tumblr.com/post/722277622492676096/el-eco-solo-caravana-del-cine-2023

#Listening #AcousticEcology #AudioVisual #SoundScape #Memory #Phonomnesis #workshops #Extremadura #LasHurdes

Morgen, am 6. Juni um 17 Uhr startet die Akustische Themenwoche des Co.Labs Akustische Ökologie mit dem Titel "Klangökologie der Stadt" #Linz #Kunstuni #acousticecology https://kunstuni-linz.at/News.2048+M5e156b3d61b.0.html

It is telling that the Australian master of mimicry and ventriloquism, the lyrebird reverberates the sounds of #extraction: Chainsaws and the three blasts of a timber-mill whistle.
“#Lyrebird #habitat #conservation has been a particular concern because of the birds’ proximity to large and sprawling cities.”
As the bird assemblage in their neighbourhood vanish, they now resort to mimic car alarms as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/04/searching-for-spotty-the-lure-of-the-legend-of-sherbrooke-forest
#Birds #MenuraNovaehollandiae #Soundscape #Ecology #AcousticEcology #Deforestation #Logging #Sprawl #Noise #Pollution

"our own listening disturbs things and makes noise"
(Holly Haworth)
great read on submarine soundscape & #acousticecology :
https://nautil.us/what-an-oyster-hears-305032/

And now, my turn to start #dawnchorusing.

Here we go...

🐦 :antenna: 📻 📡 🔊 🌄

http://streams.soundtent.org/2023/streams/utc2_-4b125436-305a-4ad9-aac3-a1ffae30d7d1

#Reveil10 #AcoustiCommons #DawnChorus #AcousticEcology #Reveil #SoundCamp #listening #birdies #radio #streaming #phonography

Aside from managing and mixing streams from every time zone on the planet, last year SoundCamp, the organizers of #Reveil, also built a cool Portable Auditorium in Stave Hill Ecological Park, London.

I wonder how they'll set it up this year.

Only a few hours to go now.

http://soundtent.org/

#Reveil10 #SoundCamp #AcousiCommons #DawnChorus #InternationalDawnChorusDay #listening #BioAcoustics #AcousticEcology #birdies #MicrophonesInTreesAndBushes #streaming #radio

The Crow’s Nest #streambox is ready for #DawnChorusDay and already live! Thank you @sound_camp so much for sending me the stream box - proud to be one of the nodes in #SouthKorea representing #Seoul #Yongsan for #reveil10

Listen live 🔊🔊 from 🇰🇷Dragon Mountain in the land of the morning calm 🇰🇷 direct to wherever you are 🔊🔊 KST 5:00. Sat CET 22:00. Fri

http://streams.soundtent.org/2023/streams

#soundscape #livestream #audio #fieldrecording #acousticecology #radio #soundstudies #aroundtheworld

The Crow’s Nest #streambox is ready for #DawnChorusDay and already live! Thank you @sound_camp so much for sending me the stream box - proud to be one of the nodes in #SouthKorea representing #Seoul #Yongsan for #reveil10

Listen live 🔊🔊 from 🇰🇷Dragon Mountain in the land of the morning calm 🇰🇷 direct to wherever you are 🔊🔊 KST 5:00. Sat CET 22:00. Fri

http://streams.soundtent.org/2023/streams

#soundscape #livestream #audio #fieldrecording #acousticecology #radio #soundstudies #aroundtheworld

New story about the importance of sound to science research is live.

#soundscape #science #acousticecology #saltywave #VisualStoryTeller

https://saltywave.wordpress.com/2023/04/27/the-importance-of-sound-to-science/

Overnight drop rig recording, Tancat de Mília, Albufera Lagoon, Valencia, 2022-01-21/22.

This was one of a number of night-time field recordings I made in preparation for a workshop I directed as part of the "Dense Presents" programme at Valencia's IVAM Museum last spring.

#FieldRecording #phonography #AcousticEcology

https://soundcloud.com/acoustic_mirror/2022-01-2122-tancat-de-milia-lalbufera-nighttime-drop-rig-recording-presentesdensos

Recording is now underway for the 🦇 project I'm getting started on, monitoring insect-eating bats. I've been tasked with recording on an off-road bush track. Just as well I have a few of those! I have two AudioMoths on the job until Tuesday, as I've configured my recorder with the same settings as the one provided for this citizen science project, and to cover another section of the track. I'll make the 'who's behind the project' info more public once I know more about how the creative part of this project is going to take shape

And I'm looking for 🦇 stories - more so from people who really don't like them for whatever reason. I'd love to hear why. Message me!

#bats #chiroptera #microbats #BatEcology #EcoArt #EnvironmentalArt #SocialEcology #bioacoustics #AcousticEcology #BatEnvironments #RegionalNSW #RegionalArts #ArtProject #ecopulse #SoundArtist #SoundArt #FieldRecording

Sound Camp and the Acoustic Commons Network have just announced the open call for Reveil 10: a sound and ecology festival at places around the world on Dawn Chorus Day.

I've participated in Reveil in the past three years, and I can't recommend it enough. Last year's 48-hour stream was fantastic.

So apply now, and get those coffee-makers ready.

#Reveil #REveil10 #SoundCamp #AcousticCommons #DawnChorus #InternationalDawnChorusDay #AcousticEcology #Soundscape #Listening

https://soundtent.org

Sound Camp and the Acoustic Commons Network have just announced the open call for Reveil 10: a sound and ecology festival at places around the world on Dawn Chorus Day.

I've participated in Reveil in the past three years, and I can't recommend it enough. Last year's 48-hour stream was fantastic.

So apply now, and get those coffee-makers ready.

#Reveil #REveil10 #SoundCamp #AcousticCommons #DawnChorus #InternationalDawnChorusDay #AcousticEcology #Soundscape #Listening

https://soundtent.org

Sounding Out Borderscapes: A Sonic Geography of the US–Mexico Border at Otay Mountain, California https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2170788 @geography #PoliticalEcology #borders #AcousticEcology #sound #borderscapes @geopolitics #geography #SoundEcology #sound #BorderSurveillance #surveillance #SettlerColonialism #PostHumanism #CriticalGeography

I've got a new project starting to take shape that's a little batty 🦇 Well, it's about bats, but I'm not sure exactly what about bats just yet. But, what I do know is that my practice has a process that includes a lot of background reading, research, as well as searching and gathering stories.

I'm starting with this question: Do you have a bat story and how has it shaped your feeling about bats?

It might be a folk tale, a traditional story passed down to you or a contemporary one based on an experience...I have plenty of my own! I'd love to hear from you.

In the meantime, I'm reading, going down rabbit holes, having lots of conversations with people passionate about bats, and thinking back over my own fascination with these creatures, who have surprisingly popped up in my work quite a bit over the years—including more recently through the Regional Futures project.

This image is called 'Vespertilian' (meaning like or relating to bats). It's a 120 x 90cm lightbox image that I created in 2010 from a photograph of a dead bat I found on my driveway. The original work hangs in my bathroom. A few smaller, limited edition versions also made their way into the world as wrapped aluminium prints.

More to come on this new project, but in the meantime, I'd love you to message me if you have a story you'd like to share 🦇

#bats #chiroptera #BatEcology #AcousticEcology #SoundArtist #SoundArt #FieldRecording

This morning #fieldrecording in #Seoul I met some curious #squirrels and had the joy not only of hearing them run through the pine needles but also dig for and eat nuts. #soundscape #acousticecology #urbanwildlife #SouthKorea #

Umweltveränderung und -zerstörung lässt sich auch durch Klang messen und beobachten. Menschliches Wohlbefinden hängt eng mit dem akustischen Kontakt zur Umwelt zusammen. Es lässt sich annehmen, dass Depressions- und Angsterscheinungen in Reaktion auf die #Klimakrise auch mit solchen akustischen Veränderungen zu tun haben:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/6/1/53/8129/Listening-to-Birds-in-the-Anthropocene-The-Anxious

#acousticecology
#sonicanthropology

An Icy Plunge
Norvan Falls #NorthVancouver BC Canada

#fieldrecording at https://archive.org/details/aporee_55102_62984

#waterfallwednesday
#soundmap #phonography #acousticecology #soundscape

Fish Sounds! #fieldrecording #acousticecology https://fishsounds.net/

I had heard of moths anti-predation tactics before, but hadn't realised that the use of ultrasound was as widespread as this paper shows. Excellent work by the authors 🦋 🔊 🦇

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2117485119

#moths #ultrasound #bats #BioAcoustics #AcousticEcology