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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>“The Global Composition” will take place from 4-7 October 2018 on Media Campus Dieburg/Darmstadt UAS, near Frankfurt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018">http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our keynote speakers and their themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>· Milena Droumeva (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby/Canada), Gendered Ecologies. Voice in Game Soundscapes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>· Maria Klatte (University of Kaiserslautern/Germany), Effects of Noise on Cognitive Performance in Children. Where do we stand?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>· Walter Tilgner (Independent Artist, Allensbach/Germany), Recording European Biotopes. Environmental sounds, ecology and the culture of listening<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>One of our major aims is to balance cognitive approaches and the practices of listening. Therefore, we have not only keynote lectures in our program but also keynote workshops:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018/keynotes-and-program/keynote-workshops">http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018/keynotes-and-program/keynote-workshops</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Besides this, we’ll have numerous high quality papers and artistic presentations by our conference participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>To mention some major topics: migration, VR audio/3D audio, queerness, media aesthetic education. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>We’ll, too, celebrate the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) with a participatory social sculpture during the upcoming conference!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> In an effort to create this social sculpture, we kindly ask you to help us find material from "The Tuning of the World: The First International Conference on Acoustic Ecology" that took place on August 1993 in Banff, Canada. The material needed for this celebration can be in any format. If you have been part of this founding event and have still kept anything of this conference, or know of someone that might, please contacts us via: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="mailto:theglobalcomposition@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>theglobalcomposition@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>On our website you’ll find practical instructions for accommodation, registration, and travel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>We would be glad if you could distribute this info within your network. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Looking forward to your visit,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks and herzlich,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sabine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Prof. Sabine Breitsameter</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sound und Medienkultur/Sound and Media Culture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Leitung/Director of<b> Master International Media Cultural Work (IMC)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Soundscape- & Environmental Media Lab/3D Audio and Fulldome Media Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fachbereich Media/Department of Media<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hochschule Darmstadt/Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Mediencampus Dieburg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Max Planck-Str. 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>64807 Dieburg, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://imc.mediencampus.h-da.de/">https://imc.mediencampus.h-da.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://www.h-da.com/academics/degree-programs-taught-in-english/international-media-cultural-work/">https://www.h-da.com/academics/degree-programs-taught-in-english/international-media-cultural-work/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018">http://international-media-culture.eu/global-composition-2018</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>