The Nature Sounds Society has started a weblog where we will be posting various blogs from events we attend as well as our own such as the annual workshop and tech talks. We will be creating a page on this site that will redirect to the actual blog page but in the meantime please visit http://naturesoundssociety.typepad.com/ to see it. We will be putting video clips from events up there as well.
The Natural Sounds Program of the National Park Service will hold a
training session in San Francisco for all soundscape recordists
interested in volunteering to help the national parks inventory and
preserve their soundscapes.
Training will cover attended monitoring technique with Palm software and analysis of data collected by automated recording stations.
Everyone contemplating volunteering should attend.
The session will be hosted by the Nature Sounds Society:
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Saturday, February 23, 2008
Dan Dugan Sound Design
290 Napoleon St. Studio E
San Francisco, CA 94124
RSVP: dan@dandugan.com, (415) 821-9776
Directions: http://www.dandugan.com/Directions_to_DDSD.html
Trainers will be Emma Lynch and Damon Joyce from the Natural Sounds
Program's office in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Software used for attended
monitoring (a combination of Palm and Windows) and analysis (Windows)
is available for free. Bring compatible PDAs and laptops.
Natural Sounds Program Mission Statement:
"The Natural Sounds Program works to protect, maintain, or restore
natural soundscape resources in parks. We fulfill this mission by
working in partnership with parks and others to increase scientific
and public understanding of the value and character of natural
soundscapes and to eliminate or minimize noise intrusions."
See:
-Dan Dugan, board member, Nature Sounds Society
(Cross-posted to nature recordists, NSS announce,
muwo-soundscape-monitoring, and Bay Area Sound Ecology groups. The
more copies you get, the hipper you are!)
INTRODUCTION TO NATURE SOUND RECORDING Speaker: Dan Dugan, Nature Sounds Society Interested in learning about sound recording? Interested in nature? Dan Dugan will bring art and science together in this talk for everyone who loves the outdoors. Topics will include the many purposes for nature recording, the wide range of subjects to record, and the two basic styles of nature recording. He will discuss the relationship of nature recording to conservation and our national parks. Different types of equipment, from beginner to professional, will be demonstrated, and there will be an opportunity to listen to a variety of systems outdoors. The talk is from 12:30 to 1:30 on Saturday March 1st.
http://www.greendancefilmfest.org/schedule/index.shtml