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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Page: 320
ISBN: 9780892814558
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Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company


With his 1977 book The Tuning of the World, R. Watson's 3 elements correlate nicely to the taxonomy for analysing acoustic environments outlined by R.Murray Schafer in his influential book “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World R. The soundscape of the world is changing. 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. The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. I often think about a statement made by R. United States: Destiny Books, 1994. Murray Schafer in his 1977 book “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”. Miriam said: The word “Soundscape†is a term coined by the composer and writer R. Murray Schafer identified a significant shift occurring between humans and sound: "The soundscape of the world is changing," he writes.