Open Call: BEYOND LISTENING 2025: WALKING-WITH CHANGES

23–26 SEPTEMBER 2025, LJUBLJANA

Application form

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A project for the Erasmus Plus application

Objective: for young musicians, music students (cca. 15 -18 yrs) to soundscapes in the sense of sound ecology.

Task: to create soundscape compositions in small groups, using field recordings and acoustic instruments together. The use of improvisation is optional and recommended. The use of visuals is possible.

Participants: 4x5 young people aged 15 to 18 from 4 countries. We enhance the collaboration of trained instrumentalists and electronic musicians.

As technology develops, sound has become an increasingly important way of measuring the health and biodiversity of ecosystems: our forests, soils and oceans all produce their own acoustic signatures. Scientists who use ecoacoustics to measure habitats and species say that quiet is falling across thousands of habitats, as the planet witnesses extraordinary losses in the density and variety of species. Disappearing or losing volume along with them are many familiar sounds: the morning calls of birds, rustle of mammals through undergrowth and summer hum of insects.

Today, tuning into some ecosystems reveals a “deathly silence”, said Prof Steve Simpson from the University of Bristol. “It is that race against time – we’ve only just discovered that they make such sounds, and yet we hear the sound disappearing.”

Phoebe Westonl, The Guardian

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

VIDEOGRAM 108 / TIM Master Class: Anna Kvíčalová
Online event autumn 2021

hml.phil.muni.cz/Play

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

Program

The board is public, anybody can participate.

You are welcome to join the webmeeting here. The meeting starts at 0900 CEST.

Previously, the board agreed:

Technical host of the meeting will be Šárka.

Planned agenda:

1. Responsibility and competence of Board members

2. Setting up topic/thematic work teams

3. The Reveil: participation, programming

4. Finding an Austrian member to the Board

5. Finding regular time for our open Board meetings

6. Discuss the mailing list, and/or other communication forms regarding the Network

The agenda is open to further suggestion, within the given time frame.