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Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer conducts a masterclass in Mairiporã, Brazil exploring natural soundscapes mixed with instrumentation and the effects of noise on our psyche. R. Murray Schafer leads a group of musicians and educators through his…

A diagram comparing and visualizing the tone of a bell versus a horn, found on page 260 of The Tuning of the World. The illustration represents a visualized cross section of the resulting sounds, which provides context illuminating Schafer's approach…

Exhibition of musical manuscripts and sound sculpture.

An enlarged page from R. Murray Schafer's score Divan i Shams i Tabriz. This piece for voice, tape and ensemble was composed in 1969 and was commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Society. The title of the related news article by John…

The duration of waves, and wave motion gives the string quartet it's rhythm and structure. R. Murray Schafer indicates this within the program.

Duration of crest to crest is notated within the score. R. Murray Schafer writes "speed up," and "gradually getting slower" in order to imitate the sound of waves.

The back of page 6 of " Sun: A Composition for Choir" provides insight into how R. Murray Schafer was thinking about and creating graphic notation. There are notes that are meant to help the performer interpret the graphic notation used in the score.…

Performer's notes for Sun: A Composition for Choir. This gives insight into how Schafer intended his musical notation to be performed.

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