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

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



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Murray Schafer, who researched how sonic environments are being effected by urban development. Yet, because of the spatialized, moving sound, the piece seemed to transcend its visual boundaries, blurring sonically into the space of the room, creating a single sonic environment with the marble gallery, with its visitors and attendants. In his book “The Soundscape -the Tuning of the World” Schafer brings attention to the importance of discerning between different kinds of sound; the ones that enrich us contributing in the creation of healthy environments and the ones which acts as sonic polluters. Initiated by Bill Wasik in 2003. My sound-walking technique is primarily influenced by Vancouver's World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, led by R. While traveling in the mountains out West, he began to invent a new musical language—one based on the random sounds of nature instead of the repeated sounds and rhythms found in both Western music and in man-made machines. Www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQpDaC0T-s 7. Murray Schafer began mapping and recording urban and rural soundscapes through his World Soundscape Project, soundscape listening today is not just a niche market: anyone with a smartphone can enhance their sonic environment with the touch of a button. Murray Schafer identified a significant shift occurring between humans and sound: "The soundscape of the world is changing," he writes. 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. As our awareness concerning the dangers of toxic waste and environmental pollution grows, there is however a lack of awareness concerning the ever-increasing pollution of our sonic environment. My research explores how Ambiance users listen to ambient nature sounds for therapeutic purposes–to relax, to relieve stress, to sleep, etc. The Soundscape, Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World.(1977, Destiny Books, Vermont) 5. With his 1977 book The Tuning of the World, R. 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.





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