Taiwan Soundscape Association Founded

Source: Recovering Life’s Quiet Essence Through Listening — Taiwan Soundscape Guardian Team Assembled
From: Environmental Information Center
Date: December 22, 2014Author: Chan Chia-wen

The Taiwan Soundscape Association was established in 2015. Founder Fan Chin-hui, moved by naturalist sound recordist Gordon Hempton’s advocacy in One Square Inch of Silence for “silence” — the sounds of all living things without human sonic intrusion — which is rapidly disappearing, set out to drive change through recording, education, publishing, and founding the Taiwan Soundscape Association. Lin Tzu-hao, the association’s preparatory committee secretary and a postdoctoral researcher at the NTU Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, said the hope was to understand soundscapes from different dimensions by integrating bioacoustics, noise field measurement, sound therapy, music and art, historical and cultural research, and community engagement. Through protecting natural soundscapes, the association aims to promote biodiversity conservation; advance the educational content of arts and culture through local soundscape preservation; exchange recording and analytical techniques to strengthen soundscape conservation and public application; research noise and environmental sound fields to promote public auditory health and rights; and actively participate in shaping environmental public policy, helping more people understand an approach to environmental care grounded in acoustics, and fostering environmental sustainability.

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External Links

• A Wilderness Sound Recordist’s “Hearing Taiwan” — Fan Chin-hui’s Rescuing Silence (Books.com.tw)
• Taiwan Soundscape Association (official site)
• Soundscape Map (Taiwan Soundscape Association)