February 2023

WFAE 2023 International Conference

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology is excited to announce Listening Pasts – Listening Futures, its first hybrid virtual and in-person international conference since 2011, to be held in March 23-26 2023 both at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and online.

The 2023 conference coincides with the 30th anniversary of the WFAE, founded in 1993, during ‘Tuning of the World: The First International Conference on Acoustic Ecology’ at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Featured guest speakers include Amanda Gutiérrez (Mexico/Canada), Claude Schryer (Canada) and David George Haskell (UK/USA).

Join the AFAE Discord Server

The AFAE has just launched a new Discord server, where members around the continent can discuss all things acoustic ecology, including field recording, soundwalking, research and creative practice.

To join the AFAE Discord server, join the AFAE as a member, with further instructions provided upon signing up.

AFAE 2022 Activities

AFAE Members have been involved in a variety of creative and research across 2022:

• Jesse Budel engaged in several creative projects involving soundscape composition, including DWELL, a screen-dance work focus on endangered species in three South Australian ecosystems, and Herding Caterpillars, a VR project exploring the lifecycle of the Checkered Copper Butterfly.  He also mentored emerging composer Caspar Hawksley in a site-specific improvisation and recording project as part of a Carclew Fellowship. 

• Vicki Hallett released new EP Ebb and Flow, a sound exploration using underwater recordings of the Barwon River revealing aquatic bugs, fish and other hidden creatures.

• Anthony Magen has been working full-time in one the Country’s fastest growing municipalities in Western Melbourne. In my capacity as a landscape architect I am able to instill and install sonic objects and share ways of listening daily through the creation of new playspaces and land modification. Loving the appreciation of sonically  sophisticated listening is developing in Australia. Listen to the land, listen to the people.

• Tristan Louth Robins has continued to write on his explorations in ecoacoustic data analysis in his blog, Wrangling in the Antipodes. Posts from 2022 include examinations of applying acoustic indices in context and an introduction to acoustic detection algorithms.

​WFAE 2022 Updates

Over the past year, the WFAE has seen a number of exciting developments:

• Review of the WFAE Bylaws, the first since their ratification in 1998

• ​The addition of new WFAE Affiliate Member, REA_MX (Red Ecología Acústica México)

• The first WFAE Associate Membership given to SVARAM, based in Tamil Nadu, India

• The further development of the WFAE Library Catalogue on Librarika, featuring now over 700 entries of acoustic ecology-related media and resources

For more information, visit wfae.net.