SCHAFER 360

R. Murray Schafer 360°

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A video still of a performance of a movement from Schafer’s Music for Wilderness Lake called Dawn. Performed at Central Park Lake, the performance was a follow up after another critically acclaimed piece that was performed at the same spot. (Schafer,…

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Dein Angesicht is a piece by Robert Schumann. Schafer quotes this work, among many, in Adieu, Robert Schumann. This piece was written around the time when Schumann began to go crazy enhancing the themes in Schafer's piece.

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Image of a man paying attention to his sonic environment through a primitive listening device ( after looking for information on the item, the object is still unknown, date also unknown)

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Recording of R. Murray Schafer's Seventeen Haiku recorded by the Vancouver Chamber Choir in 2000. The video includes the musical score along with the original Japanese text, their phonetic transcriptions, and their translations.

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In 2015, the Victoria Junior College Choir performed R. Murray Schafer's Snowforms at their annual concert Symphony of Voices at the Esplanade concert hall in Signapore.

An ambient snippet of the backyard area soundscape at 25 Maclaren St, Ottawa from August 11, 2016. Recorded on an Android smartphone.

This is the soundscape heard in Ottawa, Ontario's Golden Triangle Park in the afternoon of August 9th, 2016. This is an example of a lo-fi soundscape because the sounds of traffic and construction often overtake the sounds of nature such as birds and…

A field recording of Light Rail construction from a residential backyard in the Golden Triangle neighbourhood of Ottawa.

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A photo of 25 MacLaren Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The section of MacLaren Street on which it is located, across the street from Golden Triangle Park, receives a lot of foot traffic year-round.

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This is a photo of Golden Triangle Park in the Golden Triangle neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario. Located in the downtown core between Elgin street and the Rideau Canal, Golden Triangle Park is very small and subject to much noise pollution.
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