I was active in various fields within the framework of the International Scientific Symposium Music and Ecology, which was held in Ljubljana on 28 and 29 8. I was a member of the organizing committee, a member of the program committee; I presented individual paper and was the head of the panel. The symposium brought together different perspectives of researchers in the area of sound research. Discussions and papers included topics, such as: environmental policy, sustainable development of sound and music, power politics in terms of music and sounds, rural sonic environment and sonic heritage, urban sonority and political strategies of the local authorities toward sound, etc. The symposium was widely recognized since the guests were invited to the show of the first program of Radio Slovenia, where they presented their views on sound and ecology. I also presented my findings in the show.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 280940800At the World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (Astana, Kazakhstan) I was in the panel with researchers of sounds of different cities. I presented the first part of the empirical research covering the qualitative study of the perception of church bell ringing. I questioned the relations and boundaries between wanted sound and noise and highlighted the individual perception in the context of setting such boundaries or limits. I presented historical, political and social contexts of bell ringing, that are in close connection bind to individual's experience, sound perception and his narrative in the frame of the present empirical research.
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 38910509The paper has been presented at the conference of the European seminar for ethnomusicology (ESEM). It consisted of historical and critical review of the official church and legislative regulations in the field of sound or noise and represented the present state in this area. It demonstrated how the social reality or needs of society and individuals are not consistent with the ossified, outdated or unprofessional official discourses and confirms the need for a different treatment of the problem of noise or justifies the need for sociological or ethnographic studies of perception of sound or noise.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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