This is a photo of Golden Triangle Park in the Golden Triangle neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario. Located in the downtown core between Elgin street and the Rideau Canal, Golden Triangle Park is very small and subject to much noise pollution.
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…
A sound event diagram from page 201 of The Tuning of the World which compares a ringing telephone to a motorcycle engine, providing an example of how Schafer's notation symbols can be put into practice.
An illustration found on page 198 of The Tuning of the World titled Description of a Sound Event. Consists of a table of symbols explaining how to describe a sound event using qualifiers such as duration, frequency, duration, and fluctuation. The…
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 map of decibel measurements across similar conditions in Stanley Park, in downtown Vancouver. Featured on page 264 of the appendix of R. Murray Schafer's Tuning of the World.
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.
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…