This issue of Perfect Beat departs from its usual format. The journal’s editor Shelley Brunt is on maternity leave, and assistant editor Oli Wilson is Acting Editor. The issue also features editorial contributions from Dan Bendrups and Donna Weston, who compiled contributions developed from papers given at the second international Ecomusicologies conference held in Brisbane, Australia, in conjunction with the Fifth International Music Council World Forum on Music in 2013 (see http:// www.ecomusicologies.org/archive/ecomusicologies-2013/ecomusicologies2013cfp/). The first two articles in this issue are dedicated to ecomusicology, and represent a cross-section of research perspectives within this emerging field, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, and make a pertinent contribution encompassing this journal’s new scope and subject area.