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

The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. 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. Toronto, University of Toronto Press: pp. 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):. Does the The desire for clear, controlled, signal-like sound became pervasive, and anything that interfered with this goal was now engineered out of existence. Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor. She is a pioneering figure within the field of soundscape studies and sound ecology and an integral member of the World Soundscape Project. The World Soundscape Project (WSP) was established as an educational and research group by R. Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University during the late 1960s and early 1970s. She presents with issues of soundscape. General critics of acoustic ecology often say those involved discriminate and de value the sonic potential of an urbanised city/environment. Murray Schafer defines a hi-fi soundscape as an environment where “sounds overlap less frequently; there is more perspective—foreground and background” (1977, 43). Our Sonic Environment and the Soundscape – The Tuning of the World, Rochester. Composers could become the socially conscious, sonic architects or acoustic designers of our cities, buildings, and villages. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World · R. 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). Does the maker want to reveal particular sonic aspects of the place as it is, as it used to be, as it might be?