Acoustic Ecology
Acoustical Ecology, sound ecology, and écologie sonore redirect here.
Highlights
Silent Moves – Stories of Vietnamese Migration
Silent Moves presents an acoustic archive of Vietnamese migration histories linked to Berlin-Lichtenberg, featuring sounds, interviews, and archival materials from the GDR era to today. This sound walk allows listeners to engage with voices of migrants, experts, and activists either on-site or online via aporee.org/mfm.
SOUNDCAMP 10
Join us for a free sound and ecology festival at Stave Hill Ecological Park, Rotherhithe, over the Dawn Chorus Day weekend. Listen | Visit | Hangout | Camp Join us as Reveil turns 10, broadcasting through the day and night. Listen in PITCH, by public works and Michael Speers, designed and built with young people
• Lisan: Tongue
An interactive theatrical experience of walking with a twelve-year-old girl as your daughter along the Dubai creek, leading you through contrasting natural and urban landscapes – bringing to light the many lives of the creek and the stories of its human and more-than-human inhabitants.
NOOSA
The 2018 Booin Gari Festival on the Noosa River features AURALITY, an augmented reality audio project that uses GPS location to trigger evolving soundscapes inspired by Queensland’s rainforests, rivers, and reefs. Visitors explore the sounds by moving through active zones on the app, with audio adapting throughout the festival for a dynamic, site-specific experience.
AIRLIE BEACH
Aurality is an augmented reality audio project launched at the 2017 Queensland Music Festival in Airlie Beach, offering interactive soundscapes of Queensland's rainforests, rivers, and reefs. The app uses GPS to trigger location-based audio experiences that evolve throughout the festival and are best experienced with headphones.
YEPPOON
Aurality is an augmented reality audio project launched at the 2017 Queensland Music Festival that uses GPS-triggered soundscapes to explore Queensland's rainforests, rivers, and reefs. The app allows users to experience evolving acoustic ecology by walking through mapped coastal locations where audio plays automatically within active zones.
RIVER LISTENING: SOUND + ENVIRONMENT 2017
River Listening is an interdisciplinary project that uses sound to explore the cultural and biological diversity of global river systems and monitor their health through noninvasive recording technologies. The 2017 installation at the Sound + Environment conference showcases soundscapes from rivers worldwide, combining acoustic ecology, science, and digital technology to inform freshwater conservation.
Walls
Walls was commissioned by Art.ur for its PLAY IN project at La Castiglia di Saluzzo. La Castiglia is a 12th century castle that was converted into a prison in the late 19th century. It remained a prison up until 1992. The wall around the prison has a small walkway on it that allows you to
Walking pieces
Sound Bridges 1
This audio project features recordings from five bridges spanning the River Soar in Leicester, England: Bridge 103A, Packhorse Bridge, Bridge 105C, Bridge 106, and Bridge 107. It highlights the distinct and shared acoustic qualities of each site, promoting deep listening and awareness of sound ecology.
El camino silencioso (Silent Trail)
The post details a month-long sound art project titled *Cuerpos sonoros* (2020) conducted in Banff, Alberta, which contrasted natural landscape sounds with local testimonies using field recordings from places, people, and ambient markers. The project combined soundscape concepts, cartography, and acoustic ecology, highlighting walking as an aesthetic practice that balances immersive experience with sound documentation amid challenges of solitude and technical limitations.
Articles elsewhere
Petite chronique auriculaire d’un tarissement chronique
A la suite de nombreuses pérégrinations audio-paysagères à long terme, à porter l’écoute sur des territoires irrigués, j’ai décidé il y a quelques années de synthétiser et de concrétiser une problématique, celle de la vitalité de la présence aquatique dans le paysage. Le projet « Bassins versants, l’oreille fluente », centré autour de la présence acoustique de […]
L’écoute chauffée à blanc
Texte à brule-pourpoint, assez épidermique.Il y a quelques semaines, rien ne pouvait me faire penser à réfléchir sur les rapports paysages sonores et grands feux, écoutes et brûlures paysagères. En tous cas rien ne me poussait à écrire, non pas un brûlot, mais juste une petite réflexion liée à mes pratiques récentes, et à l’actualité […]
Gare aux grands bruits !
Le grand bruit du monde fait rageLa guerre omniprésente qui grondeDes idéologies délétères criantes et hurlantesDes éléments déchainésDes médias dégoulinant de sons submergeantsIl est difficile d’échapper au fracas ambiantAu brouhaha brouillageAu chaos assourdissantIl faut creuser les scories sonoresChercher quelques pépites rassérénantesAccueillir et cultiver les aménités paysagères et sociétales, par l’oreille compriseNe pas aller dans le […]
Travailler le paysage sonore urbain
Travailler le paysage sonore urbain n’est pas qu’un geste esthétique, même si ce dernier est une façon joliment persuasive de raconter le monde, en l’imaginant en un peu mieux.Travailler le paysage sonore urbain, c’est penser comment faire en sorte que ses milieux acoustiques ne soient pas des espaces saturés, que ses nuits restent à l’abri […]
Events
Sounds Wild and Broken: Nature’s Sonic Marvels
With David George Haskell. This event takes place at the British Library. David George Haskell is professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and author of the acclaimed recent Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and The Crisis Of Sensory Extinction. It explores the sounds of an entire planet, from crickets’
Movie Event- African Bioacoustics Community Conference 2020
As part of the African Bioacoustics Community 2020 Conference programme, we are planning an Online Movie Event to highlight bioacoustic science to both registered and non-registered participants. We are inviting submissions from filmmakers, scientists, students, and the public to contribute content to this event! What we are looking for: – Feature films: Complete productions of
Soundwalk: The Ecology by the ears
“In the 1950s, sound ecology appeared in Quebec, an acoustic branch of a more global ecology. This aesthetic and bioacoustic approach is more relevant than ever, pointing to the dysfunctions of our sound landscapes, between saturation and disappearance. But it also allows us to re-listen to the city by favoring good listening, and by rethinking
