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SoundCamp's REVEIL broadcasting live this weekend!

4/30/2020

Article by USC Sound Lab

International Dawn Chorus Day is nearly here!

The global event that reveals nature's secret symphonies is taking place this Saturday from 2pm, as a radio broadcast at the Reveil website, looping intensified acoustic ecologies at dawn across the world.

This year's recordings are set to surpass previous choruses due to the decrease in lockdown-induced man-made noise.

“The project is really about encouraging people to listen at a time when it is increasingly important to listen to the environment. In our visually dominant society it is easy to ignore our changing soundscapes and Reveil is an opportunity to stop and listen,” says Leah Barclay.

With the help of a University of the Sunshine Coast team, Reveil will be launching local streams and tracking the sounds produced by live microphones in the locations of the rainforest canopy at Mary Cairncross, Maroochy River, Eudlo Creek and the Noosa Biosphere Reserve.

The choir-like broadcast will travel across the world from east to west in sync with the sun; a soundscape created by a mix of producers in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific.

Tune in to this year's dawn chorus at Reveil and let the melodic environment reassure you that new life and nature will never be locked down.

Follow the event in real-time in Asia-Pacific timezones with the USC SoundLab on twitter, instagram and facebook. Follow the hashtag #Reveil2020 for the latest information on the event.

SoundCamp are an art collective based at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe coordinated by Maria Papadomanolaki, Dawn Scarfe and Grant Smith. Sound Camp have been working with Biosphere Soundscapes developing the BIOM project since 2017.

Biosphere Soundscapes is an interdisciplinary research project working in collaboration with multiple organisations and institutions across the USA, South America, Australia, Europe, India, Indonesia and Cambodia. The project was endorsed by the UNESCO MAB Program in 2013 and is currently based at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are conducting this research and pay our respect to the Elders, past, present, and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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