The conference will be opened in the afternoon of Wednesday, July 25, 2012, by Konsul Leslie Th. Reissner, who will be representing the government of Canada, Hochschule Darmstadt’s vice president Prof. Dr. Bernd Steffensen, the Mayor of Dieburg, Faculty of Media's Dean, the President of WFAE and the Conference Chairs.. It will end Saturday night, July 28, 2012, after the conference dinner. We are currently preparing a post-conference trip through the famous historic and very picturesque Odenwald forest region.
Keynote presenters:
| Gernot Böhme |
Professor em. of Philosophy, TU
Darmstadt Institut für Praxis der Philosophie Darmstadt/Germany |
| Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä | professor of Cultural Studies, University of Eastern Finland/Joensuu |
| Derrick de Kerckhove |
Former Director of the McLuhan
Program in Culture and Technology/University of Toronto, Canada, and
Professor for Sociology of Digital Culture/Università Frederico II,
Naples, Italy |
| Bernie Krause |
scientist, electronic musician,
soundscape pioneer |
| R. Murray Schafer | pedagogue, composer, scholar, Indian River/Canada |
| Hildegard Westerkamp | composer, pedagogue, Vancouver/Canada |
Further major presenters include:
| Ioanna
Etmektsoglou |
Assistant Professor in
Psychology of Music, Ioanian University Corfu/Greece (tbc) |
| Trevor Isaac | U’mista Cultural Society, Namgis Nation/Canada |
| Marc Jacobs |
director faro, member UNESCO commission Belgium,tbc |
| Eric
Leonardson
|
composer,
radio artist, sound designer, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department
of Sound, in The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
| Jay
Needham
|
composer and sound artist;
Associate Professor, Audio Arts, Department of Radio-Television,
College of Mass Communication and Media Arts Southern Illinois University Carbondale USA |
Post Earthquake & Tsunami Research Project
Members of the Soundscape Association of Japan will present an exhibition plus papers on their ongoing Post Earthquake & Tsunami Research Project.
| Koji Nagahata | Associate
Professor of Soundscape Studies at the Faculty of Symbiotic Systems
Science, Fukushima University |
| Keiko Torigoe |
Professor, School of Cultural
and Creative Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo |
Besides its overall conference theme the conference will feature the following topics in special panels:
| • | Media aesthetic education and the role of listening |
| • | The Local Composition: Analyzing the network of the global
soundscape’s elements |
Encouraging younger people to submit themes and to attend, the conference will provide a special next generation thread.