R Murray Schafer
Biographic Data
| ID | 408914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Murray Schafer |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Murray |
| FAMILY NAME | Schafer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFER R M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Listening Keynote Speech at the 2011 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Corfu, Greece
This video documents R. Murray Schafer's keynote speech at the 2011 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Corfu, Greece, filmed by Kenya DuBois Williams. Schafer, a renowned composer, writer, and environmentalist, likely discusses his theories and perspectives on soundscape ecology, acoustic design, and the relationship between humans and their sonic environment. While the specific content isn't detailed in readily available abstracts, his work typ…
The Music of the Environment
From R. Murray Schafer, The Music of the Environment (Wien: Universal Edition, 1973). Used by permission of the author.Canadian composer and theorist R. Murray Schafer came to prominence in the early 1970s with a series of writings on environmental sound and noise pollution. In 1977, Schafer publish
Acoustic Space1
Starting from McLuhan’s concept of acoustic space, the author discusses how the World Soundscape which he undertook at Simon Fraser University in 1970 set out to put this notion into practice by studying how the soundscape influences all aspects of people’s lives. In the extract published here, the author finds that the sphere is the geometric shape which best describes acoustic space, and discusses the sybolism of the sphere – and of sound – in …
La « quaternité » et le quatuor
Conférence inaugurale de R. M. Schafer prononcée le 9 décembre 1999 à l’occasion des journées montréalaises nommées « Le Quatuor selon Schafer » et organisées par le Quatuor Molinari. Le compositeur y traite de la symbolique et des archétypes jungiens du nombre quatre et de ses relations avec le quatuor à cordes. Différentes évocations de la tradition du quatuor et de cultures variées sont reliées à la question de l’unité et de l’équilibre du qua…
Classroom Composers
Acoustic space
Canadian
The tuning of the world
The Music of the Environment
From R. Murray Schafer, The Music of the Environment (Wien: Universal Edition, 1973). Used by permission of the author.Canadian composer and theorist R. Murray Schafer came to prominence in the early 1970s with a series of writings on environmental sound and noise pollution. In 1977, Schafer publish
The tuning of the world
Canadian
Acoustic space
Classroom Composers
La « quaternité » et le quatuor
Conférence inaugurale de R. M. Schafer prononcée le 9 décembre 1999 à l’occasion des journées montréalaises nommées « Le Quatuor selon Schafer » et organisées par le Quatuor Molinari. Le compositeur y traite de la symbolique et des archétypes jungiens du nombre quatre et de ses relations avec le quatuor à cordes. Différentes évocations de la tradition du quatuor et de cultures variées sont reliées à la question de l’unité et de l’équilibre du qua…
Acoustic Space1
Starting from McLuhan’s concept of acoustic space, the author discusses how the World Soundscape which he undertook at Simon Fraser University in 1970 set out to put this notion into practice by studying how the soundscape influences all aspects of people’s lives. In the extract published here, the author finds that the sphere is the geometric shape which best describes acoustic space, and discusses the sybolism of the sphere – and of sound – in …
The Music of the Environment
From R. Murray Schafer, The Music of the Environment (Wien: Universal Edition, 1973). Used by permission of the author.Canadian composer and theorist R. Murray Schafer came to prominence in the early 1970s with a series of writings on environmental sound and noise pollution. In 1977, Schafer publish
On Listening Keynote Speech at the 2011 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Corfu, Greece
This video documents R. Murray Schafer's keynote speech at the 2011 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Corfu, Greece, filmed by Kenya DuBois Williams. Schafer, a renowned composer, writer, and environmentalist, likely discusses his theories and perspectives on soundscape ecology, acoustic design, and the relationship between humans and their sonic environment. While the specific content isn't detailed in readily available abstracts, his work typ…
Art (4 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Communication (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Accoustics and physics (1 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Acoustics and physics (1 works)