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This is the cover of the book Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course. It discusses the importance of protecting our ear from our sonic environment plus how to protect it in an environment as noisy as our modern society.

This is a paragraph taken from chapter 14 ''Listening'' from the original manuscript from R. Murray Schafer's The Tuning of the World, describing how to perform the very important task of ear Cleaning before being able to really listen and understand…

The lecture describes how to move a musical melody through changing pitch. Schafer explains that amplitude, timbre, and silence can enhance a melody by presenting three examples of graphic notation. Schafer also uses three more examples of graphic…

This an example of graphic notation created by a student.

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

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

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 close satellite image rendered by Google of the Golden Triangle Area, Ottawa, Ontario.

A distant satellite image rendered by Google, of the Golden Triangle Area, Ottawa, Ontario.

Page 2 of 'Hear Me Out' for 4 voices. As explained by R. Murray Schafer "aural figures of speech" are noted to be performed somewhere between recitation and song. Includes performance suggestions on tempo, dynamic and body movements.