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In this article about Schafer's Music for Wilderness Lake, Colgrass provides a review of its performance on O'Grady Lake. With reference to Schafer's quotations on the piece, the author discusses the composer's intentions and how well they were…

This excerpt of "Dusk" from Music for Wilderness Lake includes graphic notation and written text to demonstrate natures sounds the performers make and to give the performers an idea of how the music is to be played. The directions include the use of…

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…

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 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 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 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…

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

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

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