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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">“The Global Composition 2018. Conference on sound, ecology, and media culture” will take place from 4-7 October 2018 on Media Campus Dieburg/Darmstadt UAS, near Frankfurt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018">http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Our keynote speakers and their themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">· Milena Droumeva (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby/Canada), Gendered Ecologies. Voice in Game Soundscapes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">· Maria Klatte (University of Kaiserslautern/Germany), Effects of Noise on Cognitive Performance in Children. Where do we stand?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">· Walter Tilgner (Independent Artist, Allensbach/Germany), Recording European Biotopes. Environmental sounds, ecology and the culture of listening<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">One of our major aims is to balance cognitive approaches and the practices of listening. Therefore, we have not only keynote lectures in our program but also keynote workshops:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018/keynotes-and-program/keynote-workshops">http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018/keynotes-and-program/keynote-workshops</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Besides this, we’ll have numerous high quality papers and an extensive artistic program by our conference participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">To mention some major topics: media aesthetic education, methods of listening, queerness, migration. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Another core topic in theory and practice will be VR audio/3D audio, for which we’ll also offer a hands-on workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">We’ll, too, celebrate the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) with a participatory social sculpture during the upcoming conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">In an effort to create this social sculpture, we kindly ask you to help us find material from "The Tuning of the World: The First International Conference on Acoustic Ecology" that took place
on August 1993 in Banff, Canada. The material needed for this celebration can be in any format. If you have been part of this founding event and have still kept anything of this conference, or know of someone that might, please contacts us via: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:theglobalcomposition@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">theglobalcomposition@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">In case you want to join us: On conference website you’ll find practical instructions for accommodation, registration, and travel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Beste Grüße<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Prof. Sabine Breitsameter<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Sound und Medienkultur/Sound and Media Culture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Forschungszentrum Digitale Kommunikation und Medieninnovation
<b>DKMI</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Leitung/Director of<b> Master International Media Cultural Work (IMC)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Soundscape- & Environmental Media Lab/3D Audio & Fulldome Media Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Fachbereich Media/Department of Media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Hochschule Darmstadt/Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Mediencampus Dieburg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Max Planck-Str. 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">64807 Dieburg, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="https://imc.mediencampus.h-da.de/">https://imc.mediencampus.h-da.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">https://www.h-da.com/academics/degree-programs-taught-in-english/international-media-cultural-work/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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