<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>At the more conceptual digital end, you might be interested in the work of the Centre for Electronic Media Art and related projects looking at biologically inspired approaches to generative processes. A good review of this area is Alan Dorin's 2006, "The Sonic Artificial Ecosystem", here <a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~aland/papers.html">http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~aland/papers.html</a></div><br><div><div>On 21/07/2010, at 8:08 AM, Birkin, Guy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Hello Tobias,<br><br>This little project may be of interest. It's related to Ear to the Earth, an enviromental sound art network:<br><a href="http://listentotheweather.com/">http://listentotheweather.com/</a><br><br><blockquote type="cite">From the site:<br></blockquote>"Listen to the Weather is a web-based sound project produced for New York environmental sound festival Ear to the Earth by Australian sound artist Kate Carr.<br><br>Armed with daily weather statistics from the area they live in and their favourite song about water, each participating artist has produced an aural portrait of their city's weather for a day.<br><br>By mapping data as well as referencing existing musicial works this project aims to explore how water has contributed to our understanding of being human and suggest that these understandings will shift as our climate changes."<br><br>I will be contributing a microsound track to this project soon. I'm collecting the weather data right now, with a datalogger + temperature and light probes on my windowsill!<br><br>Guy<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Tobias Reber [mailto:tobiasreber@sunrise.ch]<br>Sent: Tue 7/20/2010 08:34<br>To: microsound@microsound.org<br>Subject: [microsound] sound and ecology<br><br>dear all,<br><br>i'm currently working for a local WWF division and, when they learned about<br>what I do, was asked to collect material and links on sound in an ecological<br>context, meaning:<br><br>- sound design / acoustic identity work for agents like WWF, Greenpeace etc<br>- sound art as pedagogy<br>- sound and/or media art using natural processes, from aeolian harp to works<br>using digital technologies<br>- field recording<br>- noise pollution<br>- acoustic ecology<br>- etc<br><br>i think i know at least the basics of each field but need as much examples<br>as i can get.<br><br>any hint to interesting work is appreciated. thanks a lot!<br><br>tobias<br><br><br><br>This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University.<br>Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice.<br><br><br><span><winmail.dat></span>_______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br>microsound@microsound.org<br>http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>