1. Name, Seat and Activity
Official name of the association is: "Zentral-Europäisches Netzwerk für Klangökologie".
It's official address is: c/o Samu Gryllus, (Samuel Grillusz), 1050 Wien, Pilgramgasse 10/16.
The Association deploys its activity to:
Training and promoting awareness of soundscapes and the culture of listening.
The establishment of branch associations is not intended.
2. Purpose
The purpose of the Association, whose activity is not aimed at profit, is as follows:
(This document was signed by participants of the CENSE Founding conference, Budapest, December 1, 2018.)
The Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE) brings together organizations and individuals who focus on the importance of sound in the context of environmental concerns, socio-cultural development and contemporary art practices.
By means of education, research, art and activism, CENSE seeks to increase the public sensitivity and awareness of listening, with the goal of moving toward a more aware and responsible society, one that is concerned for the implications of our rapidly changing soundscapes.
Listening will help us reconnect to the environment. If we can understand what listening can do to reconnect us to our environment, we can understand what's happening to our environment.
Hildegard Westerkamp
We, the attendees of the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE) conference in Budapest, believe that now is the time to join together as a network of individual voices coming from various backgrounds, such as art, music, natural science, the humanities, environmental studies, activism, and the like. In these times of global environmental peril we propose this new network to fill a need, that of fostering more perceptive and conscious ideas and solutions, addressing developments in the social and cultural fields of Europe.