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

[David Keenan]

Thanks guys! Super duper appreciated :)

-d

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Ryan <yandoryn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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