The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment & the Tuning of the World. R. Murray Schafer

The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment & the Tuning of the World


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The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment & the Tuning of the World R. Murray Schafer
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Held annually in September to celebrate The Substation's birthday, this year's Sound Art Open Call recipient, Joel project is to observe the way in which people interact with the moving wagons and with the soundscapes created from this, and whether this promotes a heightened awareness of the continuous interaction between us and our environments. Open Call is an annual showcase of visual, performance and sound art at The Substation. Each of these sonic environments is linked to the others that surround it in a most particular way: sometimes you can hear them cross-fading into each other, some othe time it's enough to take a sideway street to experience a sharp change in the . United States: Destiny Books, 1994. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. We can become more mindful of the impact of human activity on Schafer, R.M. The impact of this noise on human beings and the ways in which we relate to our environments was explored by R Murray Schafer in The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (1977):. Murray Schafer is a book that argues forcefully and poetically for us to open our ears and listen to the sonic environment, because the quiet spaces and natural tempos that we require for a healthy and enjoyable life are in danger of being lost. Murray Schafer's book was reprinted by Destiny Books as “Our Sonic Environment and the Soundscape – the Tuning of the World”, which I just bought, to read the original quote in context. Murray Schafer's The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (1977, Destiny Books) the other night, I came across his discussion of church bells. Murray (born 18 July 1933) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977), of which I'll talk now. Murray Schafer explicitly took issue with Schaeffer's positions in his book The Tuning of the World (although it's been a while since I read it, and I don't own a copy to verify). Rochester, Vermont, USA: Destiny Books. Sounding Out Joel Ong by Tim Zeelie. Forest mirror': the forest echo and non-singular language', so I've been reading recently a little bit about Murray Schafer's idea of 'schizophonia' (in The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of Our World, p. To conduct tests of low-frequency sonar in the name of national security, he complained as politely though as passionately as he could that the tests would disrupt the sonic environment in which whales and other marine mammals communicate across vast distances. The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. The book talks about our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Since Schafer published his book Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World a new awareness of sound ecology has developed. Tuning in to the Natural Soundscape With his colleagues at the World Soundscape Project he has systematically taped the sounds of the planet, starting in British Columbia and moving farther afield. Schafer's 1977 book, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World was a culminating publication about the research of the WSP that provided a foundation for the interdisciplinary field now known as Acoustic Ecology.





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