World Listening Day

Thanks to Steve Peters for his email about World Listening Day on Sunday. 

Steve and his colleague Steve Barsotti (Steve squared!) will be hosting some Greenlake listening walks on Sunday, as noted below:

“In honor of the first World Listening Day, the Seattle Phonographers Union invites the public to participate in a series of soundwalks on Sunday, July 18th at Seattle’s Green Lake from 10AM to 4PM. This event is FREE to the public; all are welcome.

Throughout the day, SPU members will guide participants on silent walks around the lake, focusing attention on the diversity and complexity of the local soundscape.

Walks start near the boat house at the south end of Green Lake (5900 West Green Lake Way N, 98103), and will commence at 10 AM, Noon, 2 PM, and 4 PM. Each walk will begin with a brief introduction to basic principles of Acoustic Ecology and intentional listening, and will conclude with an opportunity for participants to discuss their experience.

World Listening Day celebrates the practice of intentional listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and Acoustic Ecology. It is organized by the World Listening Project (WLP), a not-for-profit organization devoted to understanding the world and its natural environment, societies, and cultures through the practices of listening and field recording.

The Seattle Phonographers Union is a collective of artists from various disciplines who record and present the sounds of the world in concerts, radio programs, CDs, and other events. Our goal is to move beyond our habitual experience of sound, exploring the ways in which we recognize, differentiate, map, and navigate the sonic environment.”

World Listening Project – http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/
Seattle Phonographers Union – http://www.seapho.org
Green Lake Small Craft Center – http://www.cityofseattle.net/Parks/Boats/Grnlake.htm

Question — does the occasion of World Listening Day mean that I have to listen to my wife all day Sunday?  ALL day?  Naaaah…