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The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment & the Tuning of the World R. Murray Schafer
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

Schafer started the World Soundscape Project in 1971. Initiated by Bill Wasik in 2003. As a Young Composer in the late 70s seeking a stronger connection between practitioners art, my own life and the phenomena around us, I was driven to working with tape recorders and the environment of sound. The culmination of its pioneering research into the sound environment is described in Schafer's seminal book, The Tuning of the World. 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. In his extraordinary book The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world, first published in 1977, the Canadian writer and composer Murray Schafer exhorts us to listen more carefully to the world. 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 . The Soundscape, Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World.(1977, Destiny Books, Vermont) 5. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Murray Schaeffer's book The Tuning Of the World when I set forth in 1978 to go to the origin of his research, The World Soundscape Project, outside of Vancouver, there to attend classes at Simon Fraser University's Sonic Research Studio. 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). Www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQpDaC0T-s 7. · Participate in a private / solitary way, by paying attention to your soundscape. Organize a performance event that involves field recordings and other artistic expressions that explore our soundscape and how we can listen to our sonic environment.