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Date: Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:30 am ((PST))
this may be of some interest to some of you...
Nikolas
> Dear reader, friend, and colleague,
>
> I am writing to inform you of an important challenge and opportunity rega=
rding the definition one of acoustic ecology=92s fundamental ideas, the Sou=
ndscape. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) is seeking=
papers for publication in a few weeks. I have attached the Call for Papers=
on Soundscape from the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America PDF fi=
le. What is at stake is the possibility that our way of defining, experienc=
ing, addressing the acoustic environment may be distorted by a larger, more=
influential group that has no investment in the nearly 40 years of discove=
ry that began in the World Soundscape Project.
>
> Deadline: January 15, 2011
>
> [Quoted from the call]
>
> Papers should be submitted in the usual manner for JASA via the Peer X-Pr=
ess site http://asa.aip.org/jasa.html =85.Papers should be submitted before=
January 15, 2011. The intent is that all papers accepted on or before May =
1, 2012 will be passed-on to the production department for publication as a=
special issue=85Guest Editors are Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp (b.schulte-for=
and Jian Kang
>
> The challenge and opportunity:
>
> As the word =93soundscape=94 gains currency in our increasingly sound-con=
scious culture, I am aware that it attracts the attention of professionals =
in a diverse range of cultures and disciplines. The pressure to =93colonize=
=94 the lesser-known fields of knowledge gets ratcheted up. Therefore, it i=
s my hope that the voice of acoustic ecology be heard, and continue to expr=
ess its interdisciplinary and holistic approach toward the exploration of s=
oundscapes; their definition and the manifold application of its exploratio=
n. It would not be helpful to have the term =93soundscape=94 reduced to a m=
ere variant of =93noise pollution=94 or =93cacophony,=94 nor packaged into =
simple metrics for the ISO. My personal preference is for a world in which =
engineers grasp the entire, polyvalent connection of the environment with t=
he physical world and its psychic and biological subject. It is not a dream=
. I think physicists can grasp the poetry of matter, and if artists can gra=
sp what scientists can teach, there can be a real growth of exciting breakt=
hroughs in the fields of health, cognition, and culture.
>
> I hope you, as a member of our field of acoustic ecology, will consider t=
he challenge and opportunity, and forward this message to your friends and =
colleagues.
>
> Contact me with any questions, please.
>
> I apologize if you have received this message more than once.
>
> Sincerely,
> Eric
>
> --
> Eric Leonardson
> E-mail:
> Mobile: 773-342-5012
> Skype: worldlistening
> http://ericleonardson.org/whatsnew/
> http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/
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>
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