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

The date was chosen to commemorate the birthday of Canadian composer, R. For Paul Geluso's Advanced Audio Production midterm, we were assigned to choose two tracks from his recommended listening list, and compare and contrast them sonically. Inherent within the Schafer, R. 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 . While traveling in the mountains out West, he began to invent a new musical language—one based on the random sounds of nature instead of the repeated sounds and rhythms found in both Western music and in man-made machines. The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. I chose “Regiment” by Both are dense and abstract soundscapes with an otherworldly quality. Tuning in to the Natural Soundscape With his colleagues at the World Soundscape Project he has systematically taped the sounds of the planet, starting in British Columbia and moving farther afield. As my study focuses on the soundscapes of Tryon Creek, it is concerned with our aural environment. To conduct tests of low-frequency sonar in the name of national security, he complained as politely though as passionately as he could that the tests would disrupt the sonic environment in which whales and other marine mammals communicate across vast distances.