LE PAYSAGE SONORE DE MURRAY R. SCHAFER
THE SOUNDSCAPE OF R. MURRAY SCHAFER

Summary/Abstract: Who has the right to make the most noise in the world? The churches’ bells in the old times, the loudspeakers in Hitler’s era, planes taking off in the airports, police sirens, rock bands? In a world where background music (muzak) invades all public places, Canadian musicologist and composer Murray Schafer does an analysis of all types of sounds (natural, artificial, from the old days until today) in his book The Tuning of the World and advances a proposal to create sound museums. Wouldn’t it be extraordinary to be able to listen to the sounds surrounding St Sophia’s Church during Byzantine times or ... the forest noises from when dinosaurs roamed the Earth?

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