The Soundscape

Author:

R Murray Schafer

Description:

Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of 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.

About the author: Raymond Murray Schafer is a Candian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best know for  perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology,and his book The Tuning of the World (1977). His other major books include E.T.A. Hoffmann and Music (1975), Ezra Pound and his Music (1977), On Canadian Music (1984), Voices of Tyranny: Temples of Silence (1993), and The Thinking Ear: On Music Education (1986). He has received commissions from numerous organizations as well as several prizes.

Publisher: Destiny Books, (1993)
ISBN: 0892814551