Appel à communication : Sound Megalopolis: (Cultural identity and sounds in danger of extinction), Mexico City, March 23rd -27th, 2009, Deadline: September 30th, 2008

bstract submission is now open for WFAE 2009 in México. Researches, teachers, sound producers, musicians, and individuals are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations, panels, workshops and audio / audio- visual works, which may allow us to share various thoughts in acoustic ecology. We expect proposals concerning all the
aspects of acoustic ecology and soundscape.

Main Themes:
• Environment and Soundscape
• Technology and the Construction of the Soundscape
• Education: Towards a Listening Culture
• Culture, Human Soundscape
•The Design of Sound Environments

Submission Procedures:
Those wishing to present papers at this conference should submit a
brief abstract, of no more than 300 words.

Workshops, panels, audio / audio-visual works should be submitted as
one proposal. It is the responsibility of the workshop or panel chair
to solicit and ensure the participation of all members.

Paper Requirements
Send your Word file as an email attachment to the chair of conference
Programme Committee, Lidia Camacho(lidiacamacho2@hotmail.com)In the
body of your email, provide the following information by September 30th:

• Title of paper
• Author(s)
• Author’s affiliation
• Abstract less than 300 words
• Key words less than 6 words
• Text (Maximum 4,500 words including figures and tables)
• References
• Biography less than 200 words with contact information

Organizing and Programme Committee:
• Nigel Frayne (Chair, WFAE)
• Murray Schafer
• Hildegard Westerkamp (WFAE, Editorial Committee Soundscape Journal)
• Lidia Camacho, Head Management of National Phonoteque of Mexico
• Perla Olivia Rodríguez Reséndiz, National Phonoteque of Mexico

Keynote Speakers:
• Barry Blesser, (unconfirmed)
• Derrick De Kerckhove, Director Del Prgrama MacLuhan En Cultura Y
Technologia, University of Toronto, Canada, (unconfirmed)
• Max Dixon, Alcalde De Londres (unconfirmed)

Panelists:
• Murray Schafer, Canadian Composer
• Nigel Frayne, President, Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology
• Gary Ferrington, WFAE Secretary (unconfirmed)
• Hildegard Westerkamp, Canadian Soundscape composer

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