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.