Nigel Frayne is a sound designer working with museums, aquariums, science and exhibition centres, theme parks and arts and leisure precincts from San Diego to West Papua, Bunbury (Western Australia) to Singapore, Genoa to Auckland. In 1996 he formed Resonant Designs, specialising in Soundscape and Electroacoustic Design. See also: Web Site

Carmen Braden is a musician and composer from Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. She works in electroacoustics as well as traditional composition. She performs on piano and voice in jazz, solo, and choral performance, as well as an accompanist for modern dance, film composer, and sound artist. Her hydrophonic work with the ice of the sub-Arctic is a current passion

Lorenz Schwarz is a geographer and has done some of his studies in acoustic geography at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He now works as a communication officer at the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services GFRAS. In his spare time he likes to listen to all sort of sounds and occasionally record them.

Dr. Noora Vikman has worked with soundscapes during the last 20 years. At the moment she teaches (ethno) musicology at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and is a researcher in Soundscapes and Cultural Sustainability project. After studying the soundscapes in European villages she is now specially interested in studying the phenomenon of quietness and the processes of utilizing silence and the development of immaterial culture and economy in Finnish Northern Karelia. See also: SCOS Project Web Site, Facebook, and Suoni di cembra blog.

Andreas Mniestris is an electroacoustic music composer, saxophone player and sound engineer born in Piraeus, Greece. Since 1995 he has lived in Corfu where he teaches at the Music Department of Ionian University as an Associate Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition. He is currently the director of the Music Department’s Electroacoustic Music Research Laboratory [EPHMEE]. Mr. Mniestris is a founding member of the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers and the Hellenic Acoustic Ecology. See also: Web Site

Professor Masami Yuki teaches environmental literature and English as a Foreign Language at Kanazawa University. She has been publishing books and articles on American and Japanese environmental literature with special focuses on topics such as literary soundscapes, urban nature, and discourses on food and toxicity. She has worked on Japanese translations of American literature and scholarly articles as well as English translations of Japanese literature. Her most recent book (2010) is Mizu no oto no kioku [Remembering the Sound of Water: Essays in Ecocriticim] See also: Web Site

As composer and sound artist, Dr John Levack Drever has been on the faculty of Goldsmiths - University of London since 2003. An elected director of Sonic Arts Network since 2004, Drever became its final chair in 2008. He is co-founder (1998) and currently chair of the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community for whom he chaired Sound Practice: the 1st UKISC Conference on sound, culture and environments in 2001 at Dartington and Sound Practice 2006 at Goldsmiths. He has also been actively involved in the Noise Futures Network (EPSRC). Drever is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, 2009-12. See Also: Web Site, MySpace and Facebook

Eric Leonardson is an accomplished Chicago-based composer, radio artist, sound designer, instrument inventor, improvisor, visual artist, and teacher. He is director of the World Listening Project (founded in 2008) and founder (in 2009) of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, a regional chapter of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE). He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. See also: Web Site

Co-Vice President

Dr. Noora Vikman has worked with soundscapes during the last 20 years. At the moment she teaches (ethno) musicology at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and is a researcher in Soundscapes and Cultural Sustainability project. After studying the soundscapes in European villages she is now specially interested in studying the phenomenon of quietness and the processes of utilizing silence and the development of immaterial culture and economy in Finnish Northern Karelia. See also: SCOS Project Web Site, Facebook, and Suoni di cembra blog.

Meri Kytö is an ethnomusicologist and a cultural researcher at the University of Eastern Finland finishing her PhD on articulations of private and common acoustic spaces in urban environments. Her research has been tackling both the auditory cultures in Finland and Turkey on topics such as apartment acoustemology, acoustic communities of football fans, soundscape description methods and sonic representations of Istanbul in cinema. She has been working actively in various Finnish and European soundscape projects since early 2000s and edited three publications on soundscape research. She also works with sound for performing arts.

Nigel Frayne is a sound designer working with museums, aquariums, science and exhibition centres, theme parks and arts and leisure precincts from San Diego to West Papua, Bunbury (Western Australia) to Singapore, Genoa to Auckland. In 1996 he formed Resonant Designs, specialising in Soundscape and Electroacoustic Design. See also: Web Site

Past Editor-in-Chief: Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology