The Founding Conference of CESSE / CENSE - Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies,
Budapest, 29 November – 1 December, 2018
cesse.mome.hu
(initiated by CSABA HAJNÓCZY)
Organized by: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (MOME)
With the contribution of: Budapest Music Center (BMC) & Spatial Sound Institute
Supported by Visegrad Fund
(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.