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
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company



Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company Format: pdf. Our Sonic Environment and the Soundscape – The Tuning of the World, Rochester. United States: Destiny Books, 1994. The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. Keynote sounds: Those sounds heard by a particular culture continuously or frequently enough to form a background against which other sounds are perceived (The Tuning of the World, 272). 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. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment & the Tuning of the World R. Murray Schafer, who researched how sonic environments are being effected by urban development. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. With those words, and with that book, Canadian composer, writer, educator, and environmentalist R. Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor. Quite apart from the overarching acoustic sensory bias, an important aspect of the overall landscape in all cases, of the overall environment of a locale, is its soundscape. 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 sound-walking technique is primarily influenced by Vancouver's World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, led by R. Toronto, University of Toronto Press: pp. 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. The above quote is taken from R. The Soundscape, Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World.

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