In 2021 we asked the CENSE membership, in addition to others, five open-ended questions as a way of taking the pulse of our evolving community.

The result was edited and distributed as a PDF Almanac publication, which you can download from this site for free.

3 years later we would like to ask you to check the QUESTIONNAIRE II again.

What changed and what didnt?

Artists, and everyone to whom it may concern:

As you might have seen already, the Visegrad Fund call for Visual and Sound Artists Residencies are open. The Deadline to apply is 15 October 2023. You have to apply personally as an artist for this, and come from PL, SK, HU.

International Symposium on Sonic Ecologies
21 to 25 November, 2023
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME)

The aim of the conference is to provide a transdisciplinary forum for the achievements in recent years and to foster further exchanges, communication and networking during the years to come. We would like to pay special attention to the region of Central Europe, but the geopolitical range of its subjects remains open to the broader world.

Series is reflecting the current situation dealing with sound, environment and perception.

This is a reminder of an upcoming broadcasting of the 2nd episode from Elements series, that Polina Katchenka is preparing together with Petra Kapš. We will also have a custom generative graphics for each episode from our Teplice-based colleague and a graphic designer Petr Hanžl.

Thanks to everyone who decided to contribute their recordings!!

we've received great content from all of you! It's an horror to work with you all.

Tune in on https://radiopunctum.cz/ at 20h CET.

or

listen to the podcast here:

VIDEOGRAM 108 / TIM Master Class: Anna Kvíčalová
Online event

This time we're working on the mixtape together with Petra Kapš.

The focus of next 4 episodes will be 4 Elements. We decided to start with WATER.

For this, I would like to invite you to send me your field-recordings up to 7 minutes, related to the topic.

Please, provide a short description of how the recording and the conditions, when, where and how it was recorded. The outcome will be broadcasted on 2.12.

Anyone who is interested in participating in the event (actively or passively), or just would like to get to know more information is welcome to join.

CENSE meeting – Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 8pm (Prague time)
us02web.zoom.us/j/84766009077
meeting ID: 847 6600 9077

You can read all the notes in here: pad.monoskop.org/p/dayofcenselinz.

More info: cense.earth/acoustic-ecology-week-linz.

CENSE mixtape series is focused on bringing the field of acoustic ecology closer to the local listeners and interested individuals, introducing field-recordings as a sonic tool for examining our sound environment and enabling us to gain a deeper knowledge on the consequences of environmental processes, together with possible solutions retrieval. further info on the network can be found on the webpage

Listen: https://radiopunctum.cz/shows/cense-emptiness

Discussing the program for the Linz conference.

Everybody is welcomed to join the zoom gathering

at 9 am Tuesday 28, September

link will be announced here

milos vojtech is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: linz Time: Sep 28, 2021 09:00 PM Prague Bratislava

Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74090702466?pwd=L0ZQSG1waFFVUm5MYUdta0NTTXVsQT09

Meeting ID: 740 9070 2466 Passcode: z6zTYM

We will discuss the upcoming event proposal for Linz.

Theme: Emptiness

The inaugural CENSE Radio Program will take place 30 September 2021 on Radio Punctum.

The program is currently in the process of being created. Polina Khatsenka writes:

For this, I would like to invite you to send me your field recordings up to 7 minutes, related to the case of EMPTINESS.

Author: zvukac (Miloš Vojtěchovský)
Curators: Zbyněk Baladrán, Lukáš Likavčan and Display - Association for Research and Collective Practice

There are the key points we'd like to discuss this time:

1. i-portunus grant – possibility to fund residencies
2. Punctum radio & Radio Earth – CENSE participation
3. CENSE Almanach – preparation process
4. Theme Week Acoustic Ecology in Linz – November 29 – December 5, 2021

The planned/suggested agenda is:

• next online meeting scheduled for September 13

Please pay a visit. The ZOOM link will be sent the latest at 5'55 pm to the CENSE mailing list. Still, please confit, your interest, if you can.

Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design Budapest and the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg announce a summer workshop on the topic of ecological sound art, between 23rd and 28th August 2021. The aim of the workshop is to create and present soundscape etudes / compositions in the framework of the Sounding City Days 2021 Kőszeg.

Tu Fokan Music Summer School is this year from 14th till 23rd July in Pilisszentlászló village, Hungary. On the World Listening Day, (Sunday the 18th), we will focus on it with a small presentation for the 20 Hungarian and Czech young people, as part of the joint CENSE actions. The event will include a review of the existence of sonic ecology, the activities and merits of Murray Schafer, and the phenomena of geophonics, which gives the essentials of this year "Unquiet Earth" topic.

On World Listening Day we will broadcast short radio stream from South Italy, Southern Apennines, from the rooftop of a small house on the top of the hill near Tortorella village.

You are welcome to join listening session and on the program are regular sound events of a very silent valley with only two functional traditional farms, you will hear the sounds of the protected area of plants, birds, owls, wolves and other forest inhabitants. Let's protect the silence, sounds and traditional ways and balanced attitude to life of such places.