[sudo-discuss] Special request for Thu 2/12 7-9pm: Quietness & use only 48th st door entrance?

[Cere Mona Davis]

Yes please!  Very much looking forward to this event!
On Feb 11, 2015 1:24 PM, "David Keenan" <dkeenan44 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey y'all,
>
> I'm makin a special request that we all try not to run loud things like
> band saws and such during the 'quiet' times of this acoustic presentation
> on Thursday, that requires as much quietness as possible in order to for
> everyone to listen as closely as possible to the sounds of rainforest
> ecosystems in the ballroom.
>
> The quiet times need to be roughly:
> *7:30-7:45pm* (needs quiet)
> *8:45-9:00pm* (needs quiet)
>
> Depending on when it actually start, these times are subject to change but
> I will go through the building and let folks know -
>
> This particularly includes the La Commune area since it is close to the
> ballroom - door banging and bell-ringing could mess up the listening
> experience. For this reason I was putting out there that we could perhaps
> close the main door into La Commune, put tons of signs in and outside the
> building saying to use the entrance on 48th just for that time. Basically,
> to cut down on foot traffic through La Commune.
>
> I realize this is going to be tough given that Mesh & the GA are going on
> for example. But I'm hoping we can accomodate it for just this one time..?
>
> Can we try that? (More infos on the event below):
>
> Best,
> David
>
> --
>
> An Environmental Sound-Art Presentation on the Acoustic Biodiversity of
> Rainforests! Presented by the Bay Area Public School @ the Omni (4799
> Shattuck Ave @ 48th), in the ballroom:
>
> For this free special event, an high-definition 8-channel surround-sound
> speaker setup will be installed to the ballroom. Come hear unique
> high-definition field recordings of rainforest ecosystems captured in three
> dimensions with specialized equipment by David Monacchi, a professor of
> Eco-Acoustics in Pesaro, Italy.
>
> After a period of listening quietly in darkness, David will present a
> lecture, analyze the waveforms, and be open to any and all audience
> questions. This will be a highly unique opportunity to immersively listen
> to the sounds of the rainforest and rapidly disappearing ecosystems, and to
> talk with David about how such work is done, why it is vital, and how we
> can re-open ourselves up to listening more fully to the world around us.
>
> http://fragmentsofextinction.org/
>
> https://www.facebook.com/events/1409886435978575
>
> About David Monacchi:
> David Monacchi is a sound artist, researcher and eco-acoustic composer. He
> has been developing his multidisciplinary project Fragments of Extinction
> for nearly 15 years, conducting field research in the world’s last
> remaining areas of undisturbed primary equatorial rainforest. The recipient
> of multiple awards throughout Europe and North America, Monacchi is
> pioneering a new compositional approach based on 3D soundscape recordings
> of ecosystems to foster discourse on the biodiversity crisis through music
> and sound-art installations. A Fulbright fellow at UC Berkeley in 2007, he
> has taught at the University of Macerata since 2000 and is now professor of
> Electroacoustic Music Composition and Eco-acoustics at the Conservatorio
> “G. Rossini” of Pesaro.
>
> Since 1990 he has recorded throughout Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia,
> North and South America. During a pilot project in the Brazilian Amazon
> (2002) in collaboration with Greenpeace he first collected high definition
> ‘sound portraits’ of an intact tropical ecosystem. With these unique
> recordings, he composed the eco-acoustic opera Fragments of a Sonic World
> in Extinction, which toured theatres and contemporary music venues across
> Europe and the United States. The current long-term research and
> environmental sound-art project, Fragments of Extinction, is now being
> developed with the multiple aim of: collecting three-dimensional 24-hour
> cycles of acoustic biodiversity from the most important rainforest hotspots
> at the equator, over the three continents; analysing and studying the field
> data from an ecological and, in parallel, aesthetical point of view;
> disseminating the results in research, educational and art contexts.
>
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