This is the project page for attendance at the upcoming World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, to be held in Hirosaki in Japan in November 2006.  The conference site can be found here.

The abstract, accepted as of July 2006, outlines the content of the project more explicitly, and is reproduced below.

Networking Practice for Sound Environments - Modes of the Loop Network

My aim is to relate an understanding of the place of being, of body, of spirit and spirituality, of beauty and most importantly, the place of the listening subject. Presented as a journal based narrative set against field recordings taken from daily life - relating my experiences as an Australian teacher and student in Korea ( both a colonizer and colonised ) - I intend to present a map of my own research and the general acoustic ecology of the Internet, as well as a map of my daily life in South Korea as it relates to the acoustic ecology I find myself immersed in.

This paper emerges from my PhD project and proposes a revolutionary practice, not in the traditional economic or political sense, but in the sense that we should be striving for revolution as the insistence or repetition of difference as the unifying composition of being. By examining the soundscape through the filter of acoustic art and the Internet, I intend to trace acoustic practice, culture and place through the circular categories In The Loop, Oscillation, Circulation, Feedback, Spin, Cycles and ultimately Revolution.

Revolutionary teleology can be rightly criticised as utopian and naive of material realities. In a practical sense, what is it that we can be doing in the meantime to counter such criticism? The final category I propose is Loopholes, which is the active practice of finding legitimate holes and gaps in the systems and institutes that form the basis of the colonisation of everyday time. Ultimately these loopholes form the spaces of freedom and collaboration in which we find ourselves and each other, and provide a clue to the communal revolution long promised by the Internet.