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

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. 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. Murray Schafer began mapping and recording urban and rural soundscapes through his World Soundscape Project, soundscape listening today is not just a niche market: anyone with a smartphone can enhance their sonic environment with the touch of a button. My research explores how Ambiance users listen to ambient nature sounds for therapeutic purposes–to relax, to relieve stress, to sleep, etc. In his book, "The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World," (1974) R. The framing of the concept of “the soundscape” as a defining metaphor for perceptually pulling forth the auditory characteristics of an environment into foreground attention and insisting that these sonic attributes be regarded .. The Tuning of the World, Knopf, New York, 1977. Aural experience is largely pushed further into a background perception, and we pay for this diminishment with a loss of sensitivity and awareness towards certain aspects of our environment. Murray Schafer, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (Destiny Book, 1977, 1994), chapter 9 "Classification"]. I have really been getting into the book 'The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the tuning of the World' by the composer and Soundscape researcher R. The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World by R. Brandon LaBelle has described site-specific installation practice as a relationally contingent nexus wherein “sound gets played out, or positioned, in relation to a spatial situation, whether that be found or constructed, actualized or imagined . BARNES & NOBLE | The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment & the. Contrary to the emphasis placed upon the signal components and soundmarks of a soundscape, the approach taken by artist and composer Francisco López to sonic environments is one `grounded' within a confusion of the distinct and discrete.