I will be participating in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010.   I will record my personal, home soundscape and post it here. :)

And you, yes, YOU are also invited.

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 Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, 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, in partnership with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. 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.

The World Listening Project invites you to participate in World Listening Day.  Here are several possibilities—

  • You can set aside some time when you pay attention to your soundscape.
  • 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 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.

World Listening Day includes the following organizations, projects, and individuals:

Organizations and Projects

American Society for Acoustic Ecology

Auroral Borealis Listening Group (Alaska)

Berg 26 (Berlin)

Chicago Phonography

Citizen Sound

C.O.M.A. Series (New York, NY)

Community Sound [e]Scapes

“Exquisite Rarities” / Radio Mana’o (Maui, Hawaii)

free103point9’s broadcast of GIANT EAR))) archives

Fruit for the Apocalypse – “The Stepney Soundscape” (London)

Global Sound Map

Hellenic Association for Acoustic Ecology — “A Listening Demonstration-Performance and Sunset Silence Meditation” (Corfu, Greece)

Im Namen des Raumes (Berlin)

“Improv with Nature” (Sterling Heights, MI)

KKWNE (Paris)

LagosSoundscape

“Listening Around the A4074” (Oxford, England)

Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology

Music for the Soul: A Performance of Inspiring Music for Choir, Ensemble & Concert Band (Mackay, Qld, Australia)

New England Phonographers Union

New York Society for Acoustic Ecology

OISTAT Sound Design Working Group (Taipei) — “SixtySecond Theatre”

Possible Spaces (Tokyo, Japan)

PVA (Bridgport, England)

Radio Aporee

Radio Lab Brazil (Brasilia)

Seattle Phonographers Union

“Song Path” (Banning State Park, MN)

Sonic Survey of Weymouth Seaside (Dorset, England)

Sound Studies / Berlin University of the Arts

Sounding into World Listening Day (Chicago, IL)

“Sounds Like Radio” (WDBX FM)

Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival (Dorset, England)

Wild Sanctuary

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology

World Listening Project

Individuals

Hasan Abdur-Razzaq (Columbus, OH)
Dave Armstrong (Carbondale, IL)
Geejay Arriola (Davao City, Philippines)
Ian Ash (Philadelphia, PA)
Steve Barsotti (Seattle, WA)
Michael Bettine (Milwaukee, WI)
Steven Brown (Manchester, England)
Rebecca Caines (Guelph, Canada)
Daniele Cavallanti (Milan, Italy)
Chad Clark (Chicago, IL)
Steve Cohn (New York, NY)
Maile Colbert (Alaska, USA)
James Cornish (Ypsilanti, MI)
Gerard Cox (Columbus)
Andrea Dancer (Prague, Czech Republic)
DJ Spooky (New York City)
John Erickson (McKinney, TX)
Björn Eriksson (Sweden)
Eva Fahle-Clouts (Charmouth, England)
Marcos Fernandes (Tokyo, Japan)
Felicity Ford (Oxford, England)
Jez Riley French (Portugal)
Dan Godston (Chicago)
Annie Goh (Berlin, Germany)
Forbes Graham (Montreal, Quebec)
Lucio Haeser (Brasilia, Brazil)
Jon Hey (Chicago, IL)
Sarah Hopkins (Brisbane, Australia)
David Harrison Horton (Beijing, China)
Spencer Hutchinson (Knoxville, TN)
Ryan Ingebritsen (Chicago)
John Kannenberg (Ann Arbor, MI)
Ernst Karel (Cambridge, MA)
Mazen Kerbaj (Beirut, Lebanon)
Bernie Krause (Glen Ellen, CA)
Katherine Krause (Glen Ellen, CA)
Ricardo Lagomasino (Philadelphia, PA)
Eric Leonardson (Chicago)
Norman Long (Chicago)
Kim Mennillo (Cornelius, NC)
Kristin Miltner (Oakland, CA)
Anton Mobin (Paris)
Edmund Mooney (New York City)
Michael Noble (Seoul, Korea)
Udo Noll (Berlin)
Greg O’Drobinak (Indiana)
Emeka Ogboh (Lagos, Nigeria)
Yoshitaka Oishi (Nagoya, Japan)
Linda O’Keeffe (Ireland)
Ben Owen (New York, NY)
John Owens (Miami, FL)
Maggi Payne (Berkeley, CA)
Divik Ramesh (Delhi, India)
Eric Glick Rieman (Berkeley, CA)
David Rogers (Bridgport, England)
Harry Ross (London)
Stephen Rush (Ann Arbor, MI)
Kamal Sabran (Ipoh, Malaysia)
Dennis Sagel (Ann Arbor, MI)
Max Schneider (Berlin)
Edward Schocker (Denver, CO)
Vijayendra Sekhon (Mumbai, India)
Fred Jeremy Seligson (Montpellier, France)
Blaise Siwula (New York, NY)
Chris Skebo (Detroit, MI)
Miko Söderlund (Göteborg, Sweden)
Heather Spence (Isla Mujeres, Mexico)
Joe Stevens (Weymouth, England)
Mojdeh Stoakley (Chicago)
Carl Stone (Los Angeles)
Adam Smith (Columbus)
Carl Testa (New Haven, CT)
Tiziano Tononi (Milan, Italy)
Fereshteh Toosi (Chicago)
Sarah Weaver (New York City)
Glenn Weyant (Tucson, AZ)
Alex Wing (Chicago, IL)
Paul Wood (Maui, Hawaii)

Updates regarding additional participants and projects will be announced soon.

CONTACT:     Dan Godston
Phone: 312.543.7027
Email: worldlistening@gmail.com