New subject: Special request for Thu 2/12 7-9pm: Quietness & use only 48th st door entrance?

11 Feb 2015

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

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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.