Exploring the new soundscape
Exploring the new soundscape
The scientific exploration of our acoustic environmentthe "soundscape"has recently begun. Noise and sound are indeed as much a part of our lives as shapes and colours, although our modern world of sound is very different from that of our ancestors. The "World Soundscape Project" set up and directed by the Canadian composer R. Murray Schäfer is today studying the innumerable sounds in our acoustic environment.
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