AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

The Global Composition: Conference on Sound, Media and the Environment, July 25-28, 2012

Hochschule Darmstadt / Media Campus Dieburg
Hochschule Darmstadt – Faculty of Media
Max-Planck-Str. 2-4
64807 Dieburg
Germany
fabienne.rudolph@stud.h-da.de
http://www.the-global-composition-2012.org

The conference welcomes your artistic or scientific / scholarly contributions: www.the-global-composition-2012.org/call.html

Deadline: March 30, 2012

Darmstadt/Media Campus Dieburg (Hochschule Darmstadt), July 25-28, 2012 (near Frankfurt Airport)

Entries accepted by March 1, 2012 via e-mail to: fabienne.rudolph@stud.h-da.de

Proposals are invited for papers/posters, workshops, roundtable discussions, applied and artistic contributions, relating, but not limited to the conference's main topics.

Suggested topics are for example:
- the role of technology and media in enhancing/obstructing sound(scape) awareness and critical listening
- (media) ecological approaches as the basis for listening cultures
- media aesthetic/media cultural education and listening pedagogy
- recent research on environmental sound, acoustic ecology and related issues

Intermedia and transdisciplinary approaches whith a strong focus on sound are also welcome.

Please, send your abstracts for papers/posters, workshops, roundtable discussions etc. & proposals for compositions or other artistic contributions until March 30, 2012. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by the conference's committees.

Our venue is situated not far from Frankfurt airport in beautiful historic surroundings, providing not only the productive frame for an interesting conference, but also attractive landscapes, very good wine, culinary highlights, therefore good conditions for exchange and conviviality.

We hope to welcome you in summer on our Media Campus Dieburg.

The conference is supported by the 'Understanding Canada'-programme / Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Embassy of Canada Berlin, in collaboration with Darmstädter Ferienkurse / Darmstadt Summercourse, Hessische Film- und Medienakademie, the Dieburg Magistrat, Cork Institute of Technology / School of Music, Ireland and endorsed by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

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