[ 09. November 2009 ]
Subject: EarthEar Relaunch: Radio, Sound Blog, CD collections
...
EarthEar is back, just in time for our 10th Anniversary!
The new site goes public today at
http://EarthEar.com
and when you visit, you'll find:
Copious amounts of streaming audio, with tracks from all 17 EarthEar
releases.
EarthEar Radio, a pop-out audio player that offers a great introduction to
this vibrant field
EarthEar Sound Blog, featuring audio and video from EarthEar artists and
other friends worldwide. Add us to your RSS feed, or sign up for email
notifications of new posts; they're going to be fun!
Artist pages with links to their sites and other online destinations that
they recommend
An EarthEar Sound Map, where you can explore our CD and blog audio by
region.
EarthEar Collections, specially priced themed sets of EarthEar CDs
The Big Sound: still central to our mission is sharing the breadth of this
artistic medium – EarthEar's releases offer a distilled version, but
there's much more out there, and you can get started in exploring the rest
of the field with our links to artists and labels
....
Stay in touch, and remember to keep listening,
Jim Cummings
EarthEar founder
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http://earthear.com/acousticecology.html
Acoustic Ecology
The creation of environmental soundscape art, or audio productions based on
field recordings of nature or human environments, is one aspect of a larger
field of interest known as Acoustic Ecology.
The term acoustic ecology arose from the World Soundscape Project, based at
Simon Fraser University in British Columbia during the early 1970s. Founded
by R. Murray Schafer, the WSP studied acoustic environments in natural and
human settings, and has spawned numerous books and diverse careers in
philosophy, urban design, composition, and theater. Virtually all of the
artists represented in this greenmuseum.org sound art show have been
fundamentally influenced by Schafer's work. One of the key contributions of
the WSP was to develop a vocabulary for investigating and describing the
functions, social context, associations, and individual or community
responses to various sorts of sounds encountered in our daily lives.
Related to acoustic ecology is the academic discipline of Bioacoustics, or
the study of animal vocalizations and the perception of sound by animals,
and the recent BioMusic project, which explores the ways that some animal
songs bear melodic or structural resemblance to human musics, and so
suggests that music may pre-date and transcend human history.
In more recent years, acoustic ecology has taken a larger role in
environmental advocacy. Beginning with concerns about airplane overflights,
and expanding to include conflicts between motorized and quiet recreation,
protection of "soundscape resources" is becoming a part of the land
management equation. The National Park Service has led the way in this
regard, establishing a soundscape office that works to establish soundscape
resource surveys in parks nationwide. Most recently, ocean noise has
emerged as a "hot issue", centering on the effects of manmade noise on
whales and fish. Recent reports from the National Academies of Science,
Office of Naval Research, and non profit organizations have called for the
creation of ocean-wide sound maps and better research into the effects of
human noise on ocean wildlife.
CD-LABEL - EarthEar Environmental Sound Art
From: EarthEar Environmental Sound ArtSubject: EarthEar Relaunch: Radio, Sound Blog, CD collections
...
EarthEar is back, just in time for our 10th Anniversary!
The new site goes public today at
http://EarthEar.com
and when you visit, you'll find:
Copious amounts of streaming audio, with tracks from all 17 EarthEar
releases.
EarthEar Radio, a pop-out audio player that offers a great introduction to
this vibrant field
EarthEar Sound Blog, featuring audio and video from EarthEar artists and
other friends worldwide. Add us to your RSS feed, or sign up for email
notifications of new posts; they're going to be fun!
Artist pages with links to their sites and other online destinations that
they recommend
An EarthEar Sound Map, where you can explore our CD and blog audio by
region.
EarthEar Collections, specially priced themed sets of EarthEar CDs
The Big Sound: still central to our mission is sharing the breadth of this
artistic medium – EarthEar's releases offer a distilled version, but
there's much more out there, and you can get started in exploring the rest
of the field with our links to artists and labels
....
Stay in touch, and remember to keep listening,
Jim Cummings
EarthEar founder
---------------------------------------------------
http://earthear.com/acousticecology.html
Acoustic Ecology
The creation of environmental soundscape art, or audio productions based on
field recordings of nature or human environments, is one aspect of a larger
field of interest known as Acoustic Ecology.
The term acoustic ecology arose from the World Soundscape Project, based at
Simon Fraser University in British Columbia during the early 1970s. Founded
by R. Murray Schafer, the WSP studied acoustic environments in natural and
human settings, and has spawned numerous books and diverse careers in
philosophy, urban design, composition, and theater. Virtually all of the
artists represented in this greenmuseum.org sound art show have been
fundamentally influenced by Schafer's work. One of the key contributions of
the WSP was to develop a vocabulary for investigating and describing the
functions, social context, associations, and individual or community
responses to various sorts of sounds encountered in our daily lives.
Related to acoustic ecology is the academic discipline of Bioacoustics, or
the study of animal vocalizations and the perception of sound by animals,
and the recent BioMusic project, which explores the ways that some animal
songs bear melodic or structural resemblance to human musics, and so
suggests that music may pre-date and transcend human history.
In more recent years, acoustic ecology has taken a larger role in
environmental advocacy. Beginning with concerns about airplane overflights,
and expanding to include conflicts between motorized and quiet recreation,
protection of "soundscape resources" is becoming a part of the land
management equation. The National Park Service has led the way in this
regard, establishing a soundscape office that works to establish soundscape
resource surveys in parks nationwide. Most recently, ocean noise has
emerged as a "hot issue", centering on the effects of manmade noise on
whales and fish. Recent reports from the National Academies of Science,
Office of Naval Research, and non profit organizations have called for the
creation of ocean-wide sound maps and better research into the effects of
human noise on ocean wildlife.
