1st Sensing the Forest Seminar: Semiconductor and Peter Sinclair

 

The AHRC Sensing the Forest project is organising a series of three fortnightly online seminar talks with experts related to artistic, social and scientific interventions in the forest or other natural landscapes with a special focus on acoustic phenomena.

The first online seminar will take place on Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:00 - 16:30 UK time (UTC+01) - see https://www.timeanddate.com for other timezones.

We will have the following presentations:
- Ruth Jarman - Worlds in Flux: Semiconductor, who, as one half of artist duo Semiconductor, will give a talk introducing their practice and their approach to using scientific data of the natural world as a medium.
- Dr Peter Sinclair - Locustream Open Microphones - Acoustic commons : a shared resource to renew listening, who will talk about the Locustream Open Microphones project dedicated to capturing local soundscapes and transmitting them live via the Internet.

You can find more info and register for the free event on the following Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sensing-the-forest-seminar-semiconductor-and-peter-sinclair-tickets-734997275637

All are welcome!

Postdoc in Sound and Music Computing (23 months, 0.5FTE)

We are hiring! A part-time (50% FTE), 23-month Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available to work at the forefront of Sound and Music Computing as part of the AHRC-funded project “Sensing the Forest - Let the Forest Speak using the Internet of Things, Acoustic Ecology and Creative AI” at De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester, UK. The project is led by Anna Xambó Sedó (PI, DMU), Peter Batchelor (Co-I, DMU), Matthew Wilkinson (Co-I, Forest Research), and Georgios Xenakis (Co-I, Forest Research).

The proposed project aims to raise awareness among forest visitors/aficionados, artists, scientists, and the general public about the connection between forests and climate change. Community building will centre on looking at a better understanding of forest behaviour using complex scientific data in creative and artistic ways.

• Application link: https://dmuhub.dmu.ac.uk
• Application deadline: 13 August 2023
• Interviews: 24-25 August 2023
• Job start: 1 October 2023

For informal enquiries about the position, please contact Dr Anna Xambó Sedó, PI. E-mail: anna dot xambo at dmu dot ac dot uk