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Collection de quatre disques dans laquelle on retrouve l'enregistrement de la version écourtée de Requiems for the Party Girl de R. Murray Schafer, partition révisée en 1972, telle qu'interprétée par l'Ensemble de la société de musique contemporaine…

The construction of the OC Transpo LRT as seen at Campus Station on Feb 26th, 2017.

A step by step guide to describing a sound event, as seen in R. Murray Schafer's, The Tuning of the World

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

This screencapture shows the Golden Triangle neighbourhood of Ottawa and its surrounding area in satellite imagery.

This chart from the Tuning of the World manuscript shows the most common types of noise complaints received by municipal offices around the world, as well as how many times they were mentioned in each category. This table is an expanded version of…

A table of aesthetic preferences for different sounds across various locations found in the appendix of R. Murray Schafer's book Tuning of the World

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…

This abstracted drawing of a composite animal playing a stringed instrument is found on page twenty nine of Schafer's book My Life on Earth& Elsewhere. The drawing is paired with a caption that reads "I never thought I would make a living in art…

This excerpt from Dusk shows the opening measures and performance notes for the movement. In the performance note below, Schafer indicates that before the piece begins, the performers should test the environment in which they're playing in by…