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The Nature Of Hearing And Hearing Loss
No full textIf a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a soun
Language of the Listening Body
Get PDFThe Language of the Listening Body is an ongoing research project I created in partnership with choreographer Hope Mohr. In September 2006, a small group of dancers joined Hope and I for an intensive two-week workshop that marked the start of the project. Meeting daily, we conducted listening and movement research and a number of soundwalks at various points in midtown Manhattan; along the far west side of Manhattan; beside the Hudson river; and along the East river in Long Island City, Queens..
Cryophonics: Re-Performing the Ice Songs of the Canadian Sub-Arctic
Get PDFIn a context that has expanded to the global stage, the Canadian North has become a sparring ground for environmentalists, politicians, and industry. In all the commotion, the sounds made by non-human organisms and elements are falling by the wayside. I seek to address this imbalance by highlighting sub-Arctic sounds through music. Looking specifically at the cryophonics (ice sounds) of Great Slave Lake, I will first examine particular acoustic properties of this environment and secondly my creative products that have resulted from in-depth study
Sound in the Land – Music and the Environment: A Festival Celebrating the Earth
Get PDFSound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment,” a festival/conference held June 5–8, 2014 at Conrad Grebel University College/UW, explored ways of hearing the earth and listening to the environment. The event was endorsed as an official WFAE conference, featuring WFAE President Eric Leonardson, as well as other WFAE members including Sabine Breitsameter. The event also related closely to WFAE’s Canadian affiliate, Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) featuring CASE Board members Eric Powell, Matthew Griffin, and Carol Ann Weaver. There were 116 conference registrants with 300-plus additional attenders at individual concerts and/or conference sessions. All materials can be readily accessed at the conference website which also includes the complete conference booklet, with all concerts and conference sessions fully annotated
Schafer’s and McLuhan’s Listening Paths Convergences, Crossings & Diversions
Get PDF"... seit ein Gespräch wir sind und hören voneinander...”/“... since we exist as conversation, listening to each other....” This is the line of a long poem by Friedrich Hölderlin, a German poet from the beginning of the 19th century, who is famous for his highly philosophical poetry, addressing themes of Greek mythology and essences of antique thinkers. It might seem unusual to start a lecture about two contemporary personalities, Murray Schafer and Marshall McLuhan, by referring to a German Romantic poet. However, the fragment “... since we exist as conversation, listening to each other....” seems to summarize perfectly the essence of my endeavours, to understand Murray Schafer against the backdrop of Marshall McLuhan and vice versa:
The poem talks about a common “we”, a multitude of minds, which identifies itself as a medium of communication: that of conversation. This medium is based on common rules of participation and interaction: listening, sense making, understanding and sound making i.e. practicing a dynamic relationship based on listening and soundmaking. The system of conversation assigns roles and behaviours, creates perceptual structures, coins values, forms social organizations and political systems, and can thus be considered an environment, exemplary for any medium.
This lecture is primarily about Schafer and McLuhan, but on a second level is concerned with environment as a conceptual approach or a figure of thought: creating a specific mindset and relation to world and cognition, which exclusively linear-causal approaches – as cultivated traditionally in technological, historical and sociological sciences – would not allow
Dr. Robert E. Knowlton: Considering the Coastal Acoustic Carpet
Get PDFA curious natural sound was described in 1943 in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America –
"When putting out to sea at night in a small boat one is concerned about little things. We imagined a leak or that we were dragging a blackberry bush under the keel, but there was no leak and no blackberry bush. ... As we proceeded on our course the sound grew louder until it was easily heard on deck and the separate ‘crackles’ were clearly noticeable. We imagined that it might come from pebbles on a beach rolled back and forth by surf, but the nearest beach was six miles away and there certainly were no pebbles rolling about beneath us." (Hulburt 1943)
Readers of Soundscape will likely guess the source of this sound. Snapping shrimp, described at least as early as 1818, by Thomas Say, are ubiquitous and some would say conspicuous, yet their reputation far exceeds their recognition. These same finger-sized decapod crustaceans (genus Alpheus and Synalpheus) that can individually create loud “snap” sounds are responsible for the dominant crack-ling sound of shallow tropical and subtropical waters (Johnson 1943, Everest et al. 1948). Yet much of snapping shrimp behavior, ecology and acoustics remains elusive
Zawahiri’s General Guidelines and the Collapse of Al Qaeda’s Levant Network
Get PDFThis article addresses the factors leading to Al Qaeda’s continued fragmentation and the collapse of its efforts to create a jihadi state in the Levant. It does so in two parts. First, we look at Al Qaeda’s development of its far enemy strategy that deviated from past jihadi warfare strategies. Second, we examine Al Qaeda’s dysfunctional response to the Arab Spring. The protests untethering of Mideast states and its inflammation of sectarian tensions accelerated Al Qaeda’s transformation into a fractured network committed to localized (increasingly sectarian) insurgencies. After bin Laden’s 2011 killing, Zawahiri in September 2013 released his General Guidelines for the Work of Jihad to tie Al Qaeda’s branches localized insurgencies to a wider struggle against the Zionist-Crusader dominated world order.1 He failed to do so. Upon exploring jihadism’s splintering into three discordant factions represented by Al Qaeda’s far enemy focus, ISIS sectarianism and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) localized insurgencies, this article concludes that this development has led to an ineffective but dangerously resilient global jihadi movement.
Key words: Jihadism, extremism, sectarianism, insurgency
Received: 2022-12-17
Revised: 2023-01-1
THREAT RESILIENCE IN THE REALM OF MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION, AND TRUST
Get PDFOn November 21, 2022, Phil Gratton, an executive public servant at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), currently on interchange as Associate Faculty with the Canada School of Public Service’s (CSPS) Digital Academy, gave a presentation on Threat Resilience in the Realm of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Trust at the 2022 West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS-Vancouver executives. The key points discussed were the harms caused by state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate and counter the spread of disinformation, as well as the importance of critical thinking and collaborative response to build resilience against these threats
CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS AND POLITICAL MILITARY RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THREAT RESILIENCY
Get PDFOn November 21, 2022, Dr. Carrie Lee, associate professor and Chair of the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College, presented on Civil-Military Relations and Political Military Relations in the Context of Threat Resiliency. The key points discussed included the importance of good civil-military relations, how they are critical in establishing resiliency, and some of the threats that require good civil-military relations.
Received: 2022-12-05Revised: 2022-12-0