::fc-announce:: Listening; ASRA Annual Conference 23-25 August 2006

[Somaya Langley]

Apologies for cross-posting...

Australasian Sound Recording Aassociation Conference 2006 "Listening"
National Film and Sound Archive Theatrette, McCoy Cct Acton, ACT
23rd August 2006 - 25th August 2006 

"Listening looks easy, but it's not simple. Every head is a world." --
Cuban Proverb 
The act of listening is essential to appreciation of radio, oral
history, forensic audio, folklore, music and sound art, but what is
listening? Is it a natural ability to be nurtured, a skill to be taught,
or a state of mind? Listening is fundamental to sound creators,?
practitioners and audiences; how do our institutions support the
development of listening and provide opportunities to foster the
listening experience? Is listening a dying art, or has our approach to
listening evolved as society becomes more media rich?
Speakers include Sound Artists, Somaya Langley and Ian Blake, Historians
using and creating oral history audio materials, such as Prof. Peter
Read, linguist Dr Johanna Rendle-Short considers listening and archival
sources, Grace Koch presenting the AIATSIS Alice Moyle website,
indigenous performer, archivist and elder, Joe Neparrnga Gumbula from
the Galiwin'ku Knowledge Centre will give the Alice Moyle Memorial
lecture, and many more.  The draft program is available on the ASRA
website http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sound/events/con2006prog.htm 
"If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language,
whatever that language be" - Mahatma Gandhi 


Kevin Bradley 
Curator, Oral History and Folklore
National Library of Australia 
Canberra ACT 2600 
AUSTRALIA 
Tel: +61-2 6262-1636 
Fax: + 61-2 6262-1653 
Email: kbradley at nla.gov.au 
NLA home page: http://www.nla.gov.au <http://www.nla.gov.au/>  
Expect change, except from a vending machine 

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Somaya Langley
Digital Preservation Officer

National Library of Australia
Parkes Place
Parkes
Canberra ACT 2600

ph +61 2 6262 1366
slangley at nla.gov.au
http://www.musicaustralia.org
http://www.nla.gov.au

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