After having brought the Listen(n) Project to the bird island of the „Altmühlsee“ in Germany, we are now facing the next step of collaboration: Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Artes, Department of Sound Engineering.
Within the department of Arts, the „Universidad de Chile“ in Santiago has its own „Sound Department“ where students who are fascinated by the universe of sound have the possibility to learn about all its facets.
One of the professors is Carla Badani Schoneweg. Professor Badani is mainly teaching acoustics and pychoacoustics since 1994 but also did a lot of research and development on architectural acoustics and investigating the communication of emotions via sound in the human speech. This spring (2017) she came to visit the University of Applied Sciene in Ansbach (Ansbach UAS) in Germany together with one of her students. This was the moment when the cooperation between the founders of the Listen(n) Project and Prof. Cornelius Poepel (Ansbach UAS) was joined by Prof. Badani Schoneweg. Now, half a year later, Cornelius Poepel and Luisa Filip, a master student of „Multimedia and Information“, are visiting the Universidad de Chile in Santiago to finally start the collaboration for the Listen(n) Project. This visit is funded by the Bavarian Research Alliance (BayFOR).
In addition to doing a workshop with the Chilean students on the Listen(n) Project, they are going out on several fieldtrips with the aim of finding some first possible spots for nature recordings around the city of Santiago.
Places could be for example found in the Yerba Loca National Park, in the Park El Arrayan or a bit farer away in the natural area of Cajon del Maipo. As Chile with its very huge north-south dimension, so to say a unique shape and variety of different landscapes, we believe that there is a huge potential in adding valuable content for the Listen(n) Project.
Prof. Badani Schoneweg and Luisa Filip doing field recordings
As the interest of the students and their Professor, Carla Badani Schoneweg, in the Listen(n) Project has been strenghtend in a talk and a workshop, we expect to welcome the first sounds of Chile soon in the Listen(n)-Database.
Prof. Cornelius Poepel’s talk on the Listen(n) Project and Audio Signal-Driven Sound Synthesis