Sound + Science Symposium - 2009
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The Sound + Science Symposium was a two-day event in March 2009 at UCLA that brought together leading figures from a variety of disciplines within the University of California to discuss scientific research and technological breakthroughs concerned with sound and their applications and implications in relation to questions of culture, politics, history, environment, art and music. The event was sponsored by the UCLA Art|Sci Center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network. All talks were free, open to the public, and streamed live online. A schedule and MP3 archive is provided below. Video can be found here .
Day 1:
Tyler Adams, UCLA - Opening Statement
Peter Narins, UCLA - When Sounds Collide: Environmental indluences on the evolution of acoustic communication
Daniel Blumstein, UCLA - The Sound of Fear: Implications of alarm calling and predator detection for conservation biology and national security
Ricardo Dominguez, UCSD - Sounding out the Matter Market
Laura Peticolas / John MacCallum, UCB - Communicating the science of the solar wind using sounds from satellite data
Miller Puckette, UCSD - The computer as an aid or hindrance to musical expression
Film Screening: Hans Jenny - Cymatics: Bringing Matter to Life With Sound
Curtis Roads, UCSB - Gabor's sonic model: A research review
Diana Deutsch, UCSD - Illusions in music and speech
Day 2:
Dolores Bozovic, UCLA - The Biophysics of Hearing
James Marston, UCSB - Using audio cues to enhance naviation and spatial learning for the blind
Petr Janata, UCD - Brain networks for tracking musical structure
Andrea Polli, UNM - Scaling the Sonic Terrain: Raising environmental awareness through sonification
James Crutchfield, UCD - Insects, Trees, and Climate: The Bioacoustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change
Film Screening: Highlights from the Center for Visual Music
Douglas Kahn, UCD - Aesthetics of Natural Radio
Veit Erlmann, UT - Re(a)sonance
Rene Lysloff / Paulo Chagas, UCR - Sound, Consciousness, and Culture: Exploring music and technology through semiotics and ethnographic study