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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It was called The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Notes from Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and The Tuning of the World. The above quote is taken from R. Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University during the late 1960s and early 1970s. This year I am organizing two walks in Perth to celebrate World Listening Day. ĸ�過真正的音景書寫的聖經,無庸置疑是1977年由加拿大作曲家R. The only time it was ever quiet—which I described, and I think Schafer quoted in the Tuning of the World—was on Dutch remembrance day, May 4th, and Dutch liberation day, May 5th. Transforming Contexts in the Tuning of the World. The World Soundscape Project (WSP) was established as an educational and research group by R. It grew out of Schafer's initial attempt to draw attention to the sonic environment through a course in noise pollution, as well as from his personal distaste for the more raucous aspects of Vancouver's rapidly changing soundscape. Schafer was interested in that aspect of the environment that we so often take for granted: that of sound, and our sense of hearing. 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 . Aural experience is largely pushed further into a background perception, and we pay for this diminishment with a loss of sensitivity and awareness towards certain aspects of our environment. Cold night in Winnipeg in 1997, listening to The Vancouver Soundscape. Since Schafer published his book Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World a new awareness of sound ecology has developed. The Tuning of the World, Knopf, New York, 1977. That has become my passion ever since, extending the work of soundscape studies to what I call acoustic communication and engaging with all the real world issues, whether it's noise, or the sound environment, or the media, or listening in general, the acoustic community—in short, . The framing of the concept of “the soundscape” as a defining metaphor for perceptually pulling forth the auditory characteristics of an environment into foreground attention and insisting that these sonic attributes be regarded .. If you wish to participate please let me know. A letter from one Ontario Public Health unit states, “Our public health unit does not have the recourse, resources or expertise to monitor the health effects of turbines and seek the type of remedy you are looking for. €�A central tenet of the Soundscape concept is that humans immersed in sonic environments are objective measuring instruments (New Experts), whose reports and descriptions must be taken seriously and quantified by technical measurements.





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