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Invisible Places 2017: Sound, urbanism and sense of place, Open Call
Invisible Places 2017 has been announced, including a series of calls, for papers, artistic residencies and workshops/soundwalks. This years’ topic is focused on “the complex relationships between landscapes and soundscapes or the significance of acoustic ecology for all living organisms…
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Music Biocomputing
Short documentary on Eduardo Miranda’s work on biocomputing and music composition, basen on a unique collaboration between organic computer processors made of a slime mould that serves as source for musical interpretation and sonic exploration. The research, developed at ICCMR (Plymouth University,…
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Michel Andre, A Listener of Deep Sea
“The ocean was called ‘the world of silence’ in the past and it truly is for human beings, but as soon as you drop a microphone into the water, this world of silence turns out to be a cacophony of…
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Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology) Stefan Helmreich What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates…
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A New Direction for Soundscape Ecology?
A new direction for Soundscape Ecology? Toward the extraction and evaluation of ecologically-meaningful soundscape objects using sparse coding methods By Alice C Eldridge, Michael Casey, Paola Moscoso and Mika Peck Abstract: Efficient methods of biodiversity assessment and monitoring are central…
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Mileece Petre, Music from Plants
In this episode of Sound Builders, we went to Los Angeles, to meet with Mileece. She’s a sonic artist and environmental designer who’s developed the technology to give silent seedlings a portal to their own sonic expression. Channeling a plant’s…