Sound in the Land – Music and the Environment

A Festival Celebrating the Earth

Abstract

Sound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment,” a festival/conference held June 5–8, 2014 at Conrad Grebel University College/UW, explored ways of hearing the earth and listening to the environment. The event was endorsed as an official WFAE conference, featuring WFAE President Eric Leonardson, as well as other WFAE members including Sabine Breitsameter. The event also related closely to WFAE’s Canadian affiliate, Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) featuring CASE Board members Eric Powell, Matthew Griffin, and Carol Ann Weaver. There were 116 conference registrants with 300-plus additional attenders at individual concerts and/or conference sessions. All materials can be readily accessed at the conference website which also includes the complete conference booklet, with all concerts and conference sessions fully annotated.