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Une photo d'un dessin du visage de Dionysos, le dieux de la fête et de l'excès.

Une photo d'une mosaïque crée au IVième siècle avant J.-C. qui démontre Thésée en train de combratte le minautore dans le labyrinthe mythologique.

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.

Beethoven's 3rd symphony analysed by Schafer as a demonstration of inevitable noise and undesired sound in music. The image shows how if you take part of a concert or listen to a live experience, these noises will be part of the performance, as to…

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)

An image of an expired passport, issued to R. Murray Schafer in 1933, featured on page 33 of My Life on Earth and Elsewhere

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.

An excerpt from page 229 of My Life on Earth and Elsewhere where Schafer discusses the performance of Seventeen Haiku and speaks about his friend and fellow composer Komei Harasawa, the Utaoni Choir, and his experiences in Japan.

This is the second song from page 3 of R. Murray Schafer's Seventeen Haiku. It includes the original Japanese text for the haiku by Issa Kobayashi, followed by a phonetic transcription, and an English translation. It also features the meaning of the…

This is an excerpt from R. Murray Schafer’s "Requiems for the Party Girl." Notated is Ariadne’s fifth aria of the work. The excerpt demonstrates fragments of Schafer’s graphic notation, and how text is set within his score.