FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Dan Godston phone: 312.543.7027 email: [email protected] EVENT: WORLD LISTENING DAY You are invited to participate in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The purposes of World Listening Day are: to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology; to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, World Listening Project, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography; and to design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices. World Listening Day is being organized by the World Listening Project (WLP), in partnership with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE). July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, who is one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which Schafer directed, is an important organization which has inspired a lot of activity in this field, and his book The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement. WLP and MSAE invite you to participate in World Listening Day. Here are several possibilities— You can organize a soundwalk or a listening party when people play field recordings. You can organize a performance event that involves field recordings and other artistic expressions that explore our soundscape and how we can listen to our sonic environment. You can participate in a private / solitary way, by paying attention to your soundscape. You can facilitate an educational event that relates to acoustic ecology, field recordings, or a similar topic. You can contact organizations that are participating in World Listening Day, to see if you can get involved that way. If you would like to participate in World Listening Day, please email [email protected], and be sure to include World Listening Day in the subject line. World Listening Day includes the following organizations, projects, and individuals: 1 Organizations and Projects and Sunset Silence Meditation‖ (Corfu, Greece) American Society for Acoustic Ecology ―Improv with Nature‖ (Sterling Heights, MI) Auroral Borealis Listening Group (Alaska) KKWNE – ―World Listening Day Episode of Cannibal Canniche‖ (Paris) Bay Area Sound Ecology (San Francisco Bay Area) LagosSoundscape Berg 26 and Sound Studies / Berlin ―I-Hear in the Country‖ (Warborough, University of the Arts -- ―The World’s Not Dorchester, Overy, and Shillingford, Listening Day‖ at Im Namen des Raumes England) (Berlin) Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology -- Canadian Association for Sound Ecology -- World Listening Day at Chicago New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto) Underground Library Chicago Phonography Music for the Soul: A Performance of Inspiring Music for Choir, Ensemble & Chukyo University’s Department of Concert Band (Mackay, Qld, Australia) Information Media Technology – ―零‖ Networked Music Review (Toyota, Japan) Citizen Sound The New England Phonographers Union -- Listening Session at Art@12 (Boston) C.O.M.A. Series (New York, NY) New York Society for Acoustic Ecology Community Sound [e]Scapes – ―Deep OISTAT Sound Design Working Group Listening Goes Global‖ (Guelph, Canada) (Taipei) -- ―SixtySecond Theatre‖ ―Exquisite Rarities‖ / Radio Mana’o (Maui, Possible Spaces (Tokyo) Hawaii) PVA (Bridgport, England) free103point9’s broadcast of GIANT EAR))) archives Radio Aporee Fruit for the Apocalypse – ―East London Radio Lab (Brasília, Brazil) Soundscapes‖ Seattle Phonographers Union -- Soundwalks Global Sound Map at Green Lake Hellenic Association for Acoustic Ecology - Society for the Visually Handicapped - ―A Listening Demonstration-Performance (Calcutta) 2 ―Song Path‖ (Banning State Park, MN) Individuals Sonic Survey of Weymouth Seaside (Dorset, Brendan Aanes (Berkeley, CA) England) Frank Abbinanti (Chicago, IL) Soundfjord London – ―Into the Wilds: An Urban-Rural Soundwalk‖ Hasan Abdur-Razzaq (Columbus, OH) Soundpocket – ―Let’s Listen‖ (Hong Kong) Luís Antero (Lisbon, Portugal) ―Sounds Like Radio‖ (WDBX FM) Dave Armstrong (Carbondale, IL) Soundwalk in Kendral (Kumbria, England) Geejay Arriola (Davao City, Philippines) Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival (Dorset) Ian Ash (Philadelphia, PA) Turbulence Steve Barsotti (Seattle, WA) Wild Sanctuary Hena Basu (Calcutta, India) World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Anna Bäumer (Berlin) Elliott H. Berger (Indianapolis, IN) World Listening Project -- Sounding into World Listening Day (Chicago) Michael Bettine (Milwaukee, WI) Rick Breault (Lowell, MA) Eric Brown (Indianapolis, IN) Steven Brown (Manchester, England) Alpha Bruton (Chicago) Umut Çağlar (Istanbul, Turkey) Rebecca Caines (Guelph, Canada) Andrea Callard (New York, NY) Raquel Castro (Tavira, Portugal) Daniele Cavallanti (Milan, Italy) 3 David Chapman (London) Banning Eyre (Hartford, CT) Andi Chapple (Sedbergh, England) Eva Fahle-Clouts (Charmouth, England) Chad Clark (Chicago) Dennis Wong Chung Fai (Hong Kong) Steve Cohn (New York City) Marcos Fernandes (Tokyo) Maile Colbert (Alaska, USA) Gary Ferrington (Eugene, OR) Darren Copeland (Toronto, Canada) Elen Flügge (Berlin) James Cornish (Detroit, MI) Felicity Ford (Oxford, England) David Cottridge (London) Anny Fryeagle (Canada) Gerard Cox (Columbus, OH) Jez Riley French (Portugal) Noé Cuéllar (Chicago) Helen Marie Frosi (London) Steve Dalachinsky (New York City) Dan Godston (Chicago) Andrea Dancer (Prague, Czech Republic) Florian Goeschke (Berlin) Rob Danielson (LaCrosse, WI) Annie Goh (Berlin) Kimberly Davis (Boerne, TX) Forbes Graham (Montreal) Alan Dein (London, England) Burton Greene (Amsterdam) DJ Spooky (New York City) Lucio Haeser (Brasília, Brazil) Jason Dodge (Berlin) Jonathan Harnum (Chicago) Bruce Eisenbeil (New York City) Paul Hartsaw (Chicago) Katrin Emler (Berlin) Douglas Henderson (Berlin) Ionna Etmektsoglou (Corfu, Greece) Robert Henke (Berlin) John Erickson (McKinney, TX) Jon Hey (Mazomanie, WI) Björn Eriksson (Sweden) Derek Hoffend (Boston) 4 Joe Chan Kiu Hong (Hong Kong) Stephanie Loveless (Quebec) Bart Hopkin (Point Reyes Station, CA) Bill MacKay (Chicago) Sarah Hopkins (Brisbane, Australia) Tom Mansell (Ann Arbor) David Harrison Horton (Beijing) Cédric Maridet (Hong Kong) Abby Wong Mei Hung (Hong Kong) Thollem McDonas (San Francisco, CA) Spencer Hutchinson (Knoxville, TN) Brandon Mechtley (Tempe, AZ) Daniela Imhoff (Berlin) Bjørn Melhus (Berlin) Ryan Ingebritsen (Chicago) Kim Mennillo (Cornelius, NC) Peter Joslyn (Berlin) Kristin Miltner (Oakland, CA) Dirar Kalash (Jerusalem) Anton Mobin (Paris) John Kannenberg (Ann Arbor, MI) Jayve Montgomery (Chicago) Ernst Karel (Cambridge, MA) Edmund Mooney (New York City) Mazen Kerbaj (Beirut, Lebanon) Jeremiah Moore (San Francisco) Thomas Koch (Berlin) Jennifer Mosier (Chicago) Kai Kraatz (Chicago) Jon Mueller (Milwaukee, WI) Bernie Krause (Glen Ellen, CA) Michelle Nagai (Princeton, NJ) Katherine Krause (Glen Ellen) Michael Noble (Seoul) Katya Lachowicz (Berlin) Udo Noll (Berlin) Jaffa Lam Laam (Hong Kong) Nik Nowak (Berlin) Ricardo Lagomasino (Philadelphia) Gregory O’Drobinak (Indiana) William Lane (Hong Kong) Emeka Ogboh (Lagos, Nigeria) Eric Leonardson (Chicago) Yoshitaka Oishi (Toyota) Norman Long (Chicago) 5 Linda O’Keeffe (Kildare, Ireland) Susie Law Wai Shan (Hong Kong) Ben Owen (New York City) Debbie Sheppard (Detroit) John Owens (Miami) Alexander Sieber (Berlin) Maggi Payne (Berkeley) Adrian Sievering (Berlin) Lula Pena (Lisbon) Tse Chun Sing (Hong Kong) Steve Peters (Seattle) Taran Singh (Paris) planetaldol (Paris) Josh Sinton (New York City) Divik Ramesh (Delhi, India) Blaise Siwula (New York City) Ian M Rawes (London) Chris Skebo (Detroit) Damian Rebgetz (Berlin) Adam Smith (Columbus) Richard Register (Oakland) Miko Söderlund (Göteborg, Sweden) Eric Glick Rieman (Berkeley) Jed Speare (Boston) David Rogers (Bridgport, England) Heather Spence (Isla Mujeres, Mexico) Harry Ross (London) Joe Stevens (Weymouth, England) Stephen Rush (Ann Arbor) Mojdeh Stoakley (Chicago) Kamal Sabran (Ipoh, Malaysia) Carl Stone (Tokyo) Dennis Sagel (Ann Arbor) Moritz Stumm (Berlin) Dany Scheffler (Berlin) Carl Testa (New Haven) Frauke Schmidt (Berlin) Nadene Thériault-Copeland (Toronto) Max Schneider (Berlin) Helen Thorington Edward Schocker (Denver, CO) Tiziano Tononi (Milan) Vijayendra Sekhon (Mumbai, India) Fereshteh Toosi (Chicago) Fred Jeremy Seligson (Montpellier, France) 6 Sarah Weaver (New York City) Alex Wing (Chicago) Glenn Weyant (Tucson) Thomas Wochnik (Berlin) Paul Wood (Maui, HI) Bill Whitmer (Glascow, Scotland) Yeung Yang (Hong Kong) Andrea Williams (Berkeley) Tsang Sin Yu (Hong Kong) Updates regarding additional participants and projects will be announced soon. 7 .