Take Wing Event: The Practice of Aural History - Listening to Homeland

Take wing with PEEC at one of our special Take Wing events.  These special events are offered as thank you gifts for donations to PEEC's capital campaign of $150 or more per person registering. To register, make a donation either online or by check to PEEC's capital campaign.  Once your donation is received, you will be emailed a link to the registration page for all the Take Wing events.  The hardest part?  Choosing just one event!  Please call us at 662-0460 if you experience any trouble registering.

Join writer, aural historian, sound collage artist, and speaker Jack Loeffler, for a fascination presentation on the practice of aural history - a method of gathering and preserving historical information through recorded sounds. During this session, Loeffler will play recordings of habitats, species within habitats, and excerpts from interviews that he has conducted. He will also demonstrate recording techniques and discuss recording equipment that would be appropriate for anyone to have, in order to begin to establish an aural history archive.  

Loeffler is a writer, aural historian, sound collage artist, and Chautauqua speaker for the New Mexico Humanities Council. Loeffler has produced over 300 documentary programs for radio, plus scores of soundtracks, albums of music from diverse genres, films, videos, folk music festivals, museum sound collages, and books. He has authored five books: Headed Upstream: Interviews with Iconoclasts, 1989; La Musica de los Viejitos including 3-CD set, with Katherine Loeffler and Enrique Lamadrid, 1999; Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey, 2002; Survival Along the Continental Divide, 2008; and Healing the West: Voices of Culture and Habitat, 2008. He is currently working on several projects, including the Thinking Like a Watershed aural history project. He is the recipient of a 2008 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the 2009 Edgar Lee Hewett Award for Outstanding Public Service from the New Mexico Historical Society.