The Global Composition Conference on Sound, Media, and the Environment Darmstadt - Dieburg/Germany, July 25 – 28, 2012 In Breitsameter, S. & Sӧller-Eckert, C. (Eds), Conference Proceedings pp. 19-23 Re-sounding the message: Media aesthetic education through the prisms of acoustic ecology and psychology. Ioanna Etmektsoglou e_ioanna@otenet.gr Music Therapist, Assistant Professor in Psychology of Music Department of Music, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece Katerina Tzedaki tzed@otenet.gr Composer, Instructor in Electroacoustic Music Composition Department of Music Technology & Acoustics, Technological Educational Institution of Crete, Rethymno, Greece ABSTRACT The pervasive use of technology-based media in all aspects of life has a significant impact on the encoding and decoding of the message. The ‘message’, is inevitably transformed by the medium at multiple levels and in ways that potentially shape knowledge, philosophy, health, politics, art, culture and human experience as a whole. An educational approach in media aesthetics, which is grounded both on acoustic ecology and psychology, views aesthetics in close association with the senses, emphasizing the two-way communication between the perceiving organism and the environment. The aim of the workshop is to guide the participants in the analysis, interpretation and exploration of technologically mediated experiences through the use of voice and the body. Participants will be encouraged to re- sound the mediated experience in order to achieve creative interpretations and a potentially enhanced understanding of the essential message. INTRODUCTION Technologically mediated experiences (TME) permeate and influence personal and collective histories in most cultures. The popular media of our era such as radio, television, internet, etc., have become so much a part of everyday life, that are almost psychologically invisible to the receiver who tends to think that there is no medium but just ‘messages’. In the proposed media aesthetic education approach, which is informed by acoustic ecology practices and psychology research and theory, the TME is re-send to the human producer/receiver, who explores it by re-sounding it in creative ways that are afforded by his/her own body in the given physical, cultural and psychological conditions and contexts. Through exercises in enactive re-sounding, the workshop participants will be encouraged to acquire an increased awareness of the subjectivity and the multiple ‘filters’ imposed by humans and technology in mediated experiences.