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The Listening Workshop: Nature notes from WFAE 2011, Corfu
No full textHaving to arrive late, I miss the usual rituals of conference registration. A volunteer greets me and another lost latecomer with smiles, and directs us to Murray Schafer’s outdoor workshop. It’s a nice way to begin—a short walk in the morning sun with a new acquaintance and then a chance to listen.
The venue is in a shady garden beside a café, overlooking the sea. The air is still cool—in that way that won’t last. The workshop participants are local children, and still running around in all directions, chattering and squealing. A trio of small boys peers over the wall to the beach below, giggling at an amply endowed lady who is struggling to make progress against the waves. Their teacher and I exchange a rueful, raised-eyebrows smile. No words necessary. A couple of young girls, enjoying being purposeful and responsible, move chairs into a circle. They lift them carefully to avoid scraping the metal legs against the paving stones. The woman who works in the café behind answers a call and walks out of earshot, rotating on one heel as she talks and listens. She fixes an unfocused gaze on the mid-distance in that way people sometimes do when using a mobile phone, suspended in two places at once. Life is a mass of activity, and we are more aware of sound than we might imagine..
How Art Could Be Used to Educate Science: Making science easier to understand and more appealing to discover using art
No full textThe paper examines theories and examples between art and science, showing where they are similar, and how art and design can be used to educate and inform scientific data. Due to how vast both fields are in terms of specilizations, theories, and practices, the paper will mostly focus on theories of physics, mainly revolving around Isaac Newton, and art and design theories related to Newton and to color, and how these theories are foundational for pracitioners of these fields respectively. The paper will then propose methods of using art and design to educate science, and situations where that may apply. 
Deep Space and Arctic Security Issues
Get PDFOn September 21, 2023, Dr. Hema Nadarajah from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada led the monthly digital roundtable for the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies Vancouver. Dr. Nadarajah identified geopolitical views and key actors relating to the Arctic and Deep Space, examined Canada's own role, and emphasized that the regions are not isolated entities
Listening to Victory Square
Get PDFIn this paper, I will share my experiences in listening to Victory Square, a city square I lived in front of for three years. During this span of time, I recorded the square’s soundscape from my bedroom window, maintained a field recording journal, created art works in response to listening, and grappled with the reality of engaging with a vulnerable location, which was home for many, while I lived 6 stories above it. When I began this listening endeavour, I was worried about how my field recording practice could ethically co-exist with Victory Square. By maintaining a field recording journal, I was able to deepen my connection to the square, and with time, my practice began evolving in conversation with the square. I will take the reader through my creation phases and how I came to certain methodologies. In addition to sharing my work with you, it is my hope to position self-reflexive field recording as a tool that can help us think about and work with vulnerable locations that are often excluded from conversations
Sounding Singapore: Sound as Cultural Heritage
Get PDFThe paper will present the findings of a small-scale study done to ascertain Singapore’s soundmarks and the place and meaningfulness of sound in Singapore society. I critically evaluate the significance of these findings in relation to Singapore’s cultural and political economy and the population’s lived experiences. The paper will also examine sonic events that reveal how sound’s regard impacts the cultural and political lifeworlds (Lebenswelt) of Singapore/eans. An oft neglected phenomenon in Singaporeans’ lived experience inevitably informs, influences and dictates Singapore’s social, cultural and political identity and beingness
Circularity-driven urban quietness as an indicator of sustainability
Get PDFThe concepts of noise and quietness are multidimensional, contradictive and retain a degree of fuzziness. Their notion expands between the physical dimension of sound to a phenomenological/perceptual construct. The perception of noise as a sound of high-intensity or as an unwanted sound has shaped the concept of quietness as an urban sound design goal overlooking ecological co-benefits. The main purpose of this research is to highlight the symbiotic relationship between urban quietness and sustainability. More specifically, actions of circular urban development, including green walls and electromobility were modeled, to highlight their effect on the sound environment of a Mediterranean coastal medium-sized city. Following the guidelines provided by the CNOSSOS-EU road traffic noise model, the effects of the aforementioned sustainability actions were visualized by means of noise mapping. The results indicate that a noise level reduction of approximately 4 dB(A) could derive with the implementation of circular urban development measures.  
Fathom
No full textFathom, created as a permanent, site-intended sound installation for Atlantic Center for the Arts, was first made digitally accessible during the 2023 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Conference, Listening Pasts/Listening Futures. This piece invites the listener to engage with the invisible architecture of the sonic textures and submersive tonal qualities through an incremental atmospheric shift while navigating between the two sculptures (located at at the Welcome Center of on the ACA Campus), “Celebration ’96” by Doris Leeper and The “Great Green Whale: Homage to André Breton” by Giò Pomodoro
From Mountains to Social Media Valleys: A Thematic Analysis of Information Warfare through Telegram Data in the Nagorno-Karabakh War
Get PDFThe emergence of information warfare (IW) has brought about a revolution in the realm of military affairs. Existing research has already demonstrated how successfully weaponized information can be effectively used against an adversary with the most impressive military gear like never seen before. Yet, with the ever-evolving field of information and communication technologies, the scientific community still lacks a comprehensive understanding about IW, especially in the field of social media/instant messaging (SM/IM) information dissemination platforms. The aim of this research project is to further the knowledge about IW as executed through SM/IM media, specifically in the context of the long-standing Nagorno-Karabakh war. Using Reflexive Thematic Analysis, the present study examined over 8000 individual news posts in two influential Telegram channels pertaining to the conflict. The resulting main themes were Historical, Political and Economic factors, Emotional Provocation and The Blame Game, all consistent with patterns observed in both traditional and contemporary media. The impact of the said themes on the behavioural and belief outcomes of the consumers, as well as the subsequent course of the conflict remain a subject for future studies
The Sound of Place: Environmental Artworks at Bundanon
No full textThis essay listens to the sound of place: of Bundanon, a three thousand acre property in the Shoalhaven river valley in rural NSW, Australia. Bundanon is today an artists’ colony and education centre, following the gift to the Australian people in 1993 of the entire property—including homestead, artist studio and extensive collection of art works—by its previous owner, the Modernist painter Arthur Boyd. Every year, 300 artists take advan- tage of the artist residency program, living in rustic isolation at Bundanon while working on art projects in all forms and media. This essay considers four artworks made at Bundanon by the artist Nigel Helyer: Milk and Honey, Biopod versions 1 and 2, and Heavy Metal. Each of these installation works was first exhibited onsite at Bundanon, before their inclusion in an exhibition in 2017 entitled Landscape/Portrait: An exploration of the Shoalhaven River Valley.1 Each work has an audio component; the essay focuses on the role of sound in evoking aspects of place in these artworks
Inequity, structural violence, and the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure
Get PDFThis paper was originally written for Dr. Alissa Greer’s CRIM 312 course Criminological Perspectives on Social Problems. The assignment asked students to apply the concepts of inequity and structural violence to a criminalized social issue. The paper uses APA citation style.
This paper considers how the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure and the media coverage of criminal prosecutions of people living with HIV in Canada has created an environment where HIV-positive people experience a degree of stigmatization, discrimination, rejection, and inequal treatment that arguably amounts to structural violence. An analysis of how the concepts of inequity and structural violence relate to the experiences of people living with HIV in Canada is followed by a reflection on how such concepts are valuable where a critical examination of a criminalized social issue is concerned