Download or read book The Soundscape written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soundscape--a term coined by the author--is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an ever-increasing complexity of our sonic surroundings. As civilization develops, new noises rise up around us: from the creaking wheel, the clang of the blacksmith’s hammer, and the distant chugging of steam trains to the “sound imperialism” of airports, city streets, and factories. The author contends that we now suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and a proportionate diminishing of our ability to hear the nuances and subtleties of sound. Our task, he maintains, is to listen, analyze, and make distinctions. As a society we have become more aware of the toxic wastes that can enter our bodies through the air we breathe and the water we drink. In fact, the pollution of our sonic environment is no less real. Schafer emphasizes the importance of discerning the sounds that enrich and feed us and using them to create healthier environments. To this end, he explains how to classify sounds, appreciating their beauty or ugliness, and provides exercises and “soundwalks” to help us become more discriminating and sensitive to the sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, and an attempt to imagine what it might become in the future.

Download or read book The Tuning of the World written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book R Murray Schafer written by L. Brett Scott and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Murray Schafer: A Creative Life is the authoritative exploration of the life and work of this preeminent Canadian composer, artist, educator, and activist. Working closely with the composer and his family, L. Brett Scott has created the most up-to-date and accurate exploration of Schafer. Scott draws on many public and private sources, including the composer’s own journals and correspondence, which have not been previously available to researchers. Scott discusses Schafer’s extensive writings, including his research writings on Ezra Pound and E. T. A. Hoffmann, and his multiple works of fiction. The volume also includes a detailed summary of Schafer’s work in the field of acoustic ecology and recognition of his role as founder of the World Soundscape Project as well as an overview of his writings on creative music education. With complete discussions of his theater works, choral compositions, compositions for voice, chamber pieces, orchestral compositions, and early and transitional works and a chronological list of compositions and select discography, this volume presents the most comprehensive study of Schafer and his enduring legacy.

Download or read book R Murray Schafer a Collection written by R. Murray Schafer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Soundscape written by R. Murray Schafer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Sound Education written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Indian River, Ont. : Arcana Editions. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sonic Experience written by Jean-François Augoyard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has the everyday soundtrack of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's sound object and R. Murray Schafer's soundscape. Recently, the most significant team of soundscape researchers in the world has been concerned with the effects of sounds on listeners.

Download or read book The Book of Noise written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Indian River, Ont. : Arcana Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creative Music Education written by R. Murray Schafer and published by New York : Schirmer Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HearSing written by Raymond Murray Schafer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Composer in the Classroom written by R. Murray Schafer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Voices of Tyranny written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Indian River, Ont. : Arcana Editions. This book was released on 1993 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sounds in Translation written by Amy Chan and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer's challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human environment. This book takes up his challenge to contemporary audiologists, musicologists and sound artists working within areas of music, cultural studies, media studies and social science to explore the idea of the 'soundscape' and to investigate the acoustic environment that we inhabit. It seeks to raise questions regarding the translative process of sound: 1) what happens to sound during the process of transfer and transformation; and 2) what transpires in the process of sound production/expression/performance. Sounds in Translation was conceived to take advantage of new technology and a development in book publishing, the electronic book. Much of what is written in the book is best illustrated by the sound itself, and in that sense, permits sound to 'speak for itself'.

Download or read book The Vancouver Soundscape written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Burnaby, B.C. : World Soundscape Project, Sonic Research Studio, Department of Communication, Simon Fraser University. This book was released on 1978 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Thinking Ear written by R. Murray Schafer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book McLuhan in Space written by Richard Cavell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how McLuhan extended insights derived from advances in physics and artistic experimentation into a theory of acoustic space which he then used to challenge the assumptions of visual space that had been produced through print culture.

Download or read book The Rhinoceros in the Classroom written by R. Murray Schafer and published by [London] : Universal Edition (Canada. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: