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

[Ryan]

Me too! :D

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Cere Mona Davis <ceremona at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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