Acoustic Ecology and Data Sonification
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Acoustic Ecology and Data Sonification
Marcus Maeder
Thursday 28.8.25 and Friday 29.8.25
14:00 - 18:00
The field of acoustic ecology has developed significantly in recent years, due to increasingly efficient measurement and recording technologies in the field. The extent to which processes and phenomena in remote or urban ecosystems are interrelated is becoming increasingly well understood through the analysis and consolidation of ecological indicators in audio material and climatic/microclimatic measurements. In addition, soundscapes can be expanded with artificial sound sources in immersive, acoustic experience spaces – for example, to make processes tangible and connections investigable that are normally imperceptible.
The two-day workshop introduces the field of acoustic ecology and its field methods and spans the spectrum from data sonification and sound art approaches to ecosystems and the non-human. Examples from Marcus Maeder’s research work and artistic projects will be explained and illustrated. The workshop will explain approaches and methods between science and art that can be effectively adapted and used by sound artists and composers.
Marcus Maeder is professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) in Lucerne, Switzerland, and a research fellow at the Institute of Biology at FU Berlin. He holds a PhD in Environmental Systems Science from ETH Zurich and lives and works as a sound artist and composer of electronic music in Berlin and Tenna.
[https://marcusmaeder.ch/](https://www.hslu.ch/en/lucerne-school-of-design-film-and-art/degree-programmes/master/fine-arts/knowledge-to-society/)
Enrollment fee per participant 320€
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Acoustic Ecology and Data Sonification