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>The Acoustic Ecology of Devon > > >3rd of December >Lecture - Friday 3rd December, 11am >Media Arts Building, Lecture Theatre, 74 Queen street, Exeter > >o > >Please note that TESE (Touring Exhibition of Sound Environments) will be >visiting the Faculty of Arts and Education, Queen Street, Exeter on >Friday >3rd of December. > >This is the first visit towards a project in 2000/01 for Devon that will >explore sounds of the rural environment - those of its people, places >and >natural habitats. TESE refer to the totality of these sounds as >'soundscape'. > >There will be a chance for those interested in their project to attend a >Lecture on Friday followed by a meeting for those specifically interested >in >'soundscapes' and participating in the project 'The Acoustic Ecology of >Devon'. > >[This work is supported by a research and development grant from the Arts >Council of England and University of Plymouth]. > >If you would like to attend the lecture just come along, if you'd like to >be >involved in the follow-up meeting, please inform Geoff Cox by email: >[log in to unmask] > >For more detail on TESE, visit their website: >www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk/tese > >o > >The TESE project was conceived and directed by Gregg Wagstaff and is >being >further devised in collaboration with Kendall Wrightson, Helen Sloan and >others. It is intended that local individuals and groups will also >contribute their knowledge and skills to the project. > >Gregg Wagstaff is an artist whose work deals primarily with Sound: both >sound as an artistic medium, and the sonic environment or Soundscape. He >has >worked largely with sound installation and video, and has also composed >works for radio. Gregg is undertaking a part-time Musicological PhD. into >'Sound, Art & the Environment', is an active member of the World Forum >for >Acoustic Ecology, and along with similarly ear-minded individuals >co-founded >the UK Soundscape Community in 1999. > >Kendall Wrightson has experience in the fields of electronic engineering >and >instrumentation. He is currently pursuing a part-time PhD study related >to >Acoustic Ecology. Kendall occupies the post of Course Organiser for the >BSc(Hons) in Musical Instrument Technology at London Guildhall >University. > >UK Soundscape Community - (UKSC) >& the Touring Exhibition of Sound Environments - (TESE). > ------------------------------------------------------------------- John Levack Drever B.Mus, M.Mus Postgraduate Centre Dartington College of Arts Totnes, Devon, UK. TQ9 6EJ Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1803 861602 Email: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.dartington.ac.uk/ ********************** ***New Home Address*** ********************** Flat 2 The Granary Coronation Road Totnes, Devon TQ9 5GN Tel: +44(0)1803 868683 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soundscape UK: the internet discussion list of The UK Soundscape Community Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/soundscapeuk/welcome.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%