Fragments of Extinction: the sound of ecosystems | David Monacchi | TEDxVicenza

The outstanding natural polyphonies that evolution produced over millions of years ofinterspecific acoustic adaptation are undergoing a silent mutilation. Fragments of Extinction, aninterdisciplinary project, led by Italian eco-acoustic composer David Monacchi, is recording,
studying, and disseminating 24-hour 3D-soundscapes of the world's undisturbed primary equatorial forests. The Eco-acoustic Theatres are proposed (and built) as technological 'temples';for the immersive listening to remote ecosystems, to inspire a deep connection to nature and aradical ecocentric outlook.

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David Monacchi (1970) is an eco-acoustics researcher, composer and interdisciplinary artist. He has been developing the project Fragments of Extinction for 15 years, conducting field research in the world's remaining areas of undisturbed primary equatorial forest. The recipient of multiple awards throughout Europe and North America, Monacchi is pioneering a new compositional and science dissemination approach based on 3D soundscape recordings of ecosystems to foster discourse on the biodiversity crisis through educational and sound-art installations. His immersive Eco-acoustic Theatre invention has received the international patent in 2014 and is
now being built in museums and public spaces. He has worked for 25 years in cross-disciplinary contexts and produced works for contemporary music, art installation, cinema, video-art, site
specific public art, science and contemporary art museums, and is founding member of several scientific and artistic networks. An Erato-Farnesina fellow at Simon Fraser University - Vancouver (CA) in 1998 and a Fulbright fellow at University of California, Berkeley (USA) in
2007, Monacchi has taught at the University of Macerata (IT) since 2000, and is now professor of Electroacoustics at the Conservatorio "G. Rossini" of Pesaro (IT). The documentary film
"Dusk Chorus - based on Fragments of Extinction" is now receiving awards in environmental and science film festivals throughout the world. A TEDx speaker in 2017, Monacchi is the recipient of the Artistic Research Residency 2018 at IRCAM (Paris).

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