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

With his 1977 book The Tuning of the World, R. Murray Schafer, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World, “Introduction,” pp. It was called The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. 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. Murray Schafer identified a significant shift occurring between humans and sound: "The soundscape of the world is changing," he writes. 3-12, and “The Hi-Fi Soundscape,” pp. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Sound 'Soundscapes', adds Feld (2003: 226), 'are perceived and interpreted by human actors who attend to them as a way of making their place in and through the world'. Murray Schafer, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (Destiny Book, 1977, 1994), chapter 9 "Classification"]. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World R. Schafer was interested in that aspect of the environment that we so often take for granted: that of sound, and our sense of hearing. It is thus important to understand how our perception comes to shape our experiences and with specific attention paid to how our sonic environments allow us to extract meaning and knowledge from our world.