Working on Young Sound Seekers has made me an advocate for accessibility and universal design. My advice to anyone who teaches: It’s really important to think about barriers that may exist while preparing your lessons, and think about ways you can eliminate them at the design stage. That is the philosophy that led me to […]
For over a year leading up to actual event in March 2023, I was part of a team planning and producing an international conference right here in Volusia County. The Listening Pasts – Listening Futures conference marked the 30th anniversary of the founding of World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and was the first international conference on […]
In January of 2022, I joined the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) because I was seeking an organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of sound. The journal copies that started arriving did not disappoint, bouncing between topics like physics, bioacoustics, medicine, music, linguistics, and noise. I followed up by attending their December 2022 conference in […]
This past summer, I was contacted by Dr. Steven Shepard, who wanted to interview me for an episode of his podcast called The Natural Curiosity Project. It has been awhile since I had to chance to talk about my work in this way, and it was well before I took this career turn into acoustic […]
In summer 2020, I began a collaboration with my student Grace McEllroy to explore the potential of 3D printing. We wondered if this might be a tool for creating tactile learning aids. The work was motivated by what was then an upcoming project called Young Sound Seekers, taking blind and partially sighted students on excursions […]
There have been many highlights recently for my continuing community engagement project Young Sound Seekers. Arguably at the top of that list was a week-long summer camp that we developed and delivered in June 2022. The camp was a partnership with Atlantic Center for the Arts and Stetson’s office of Continuing Education and Outreach, and funded entirely […]
Since late 2020, I have been collaborating with my Stetson colleague Chaz Underriner to establish a live audio stream from Lake Beresford. This project took a lot of twists and turns, starting with some small-scale tests, working through the Raspberry Pi configuration, and installing the necessary cabling. But I’m happy to report that the Institute […]
Audio field recording is an activity that involves taking equipment out into environments, whether natural or urban, to capture sound. It is an activity that can capture the rare vocalizations of individual species, like oystercatchers and lapwings. It can also capture the sound of a place, or its soundscape. These soundscapes can be an important tool for understanding the […]
It’s really satisfying to see something you’ve written published, especially when it is released in a beautifully designed and printed book. I recently received my copy of Sound and Environment, a book edited by Jan Krtička & Pavel Mrkus. It assembles contributions from the 2019 gathering of CENSE where I presented about DeLeon Springs. Very […]
Young Sound Seekers is a new community outreach program that creates opportunities for blind and partially-sighted youth to learn about natural soundscapes and audio field recording.
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