Some prescient words from Murray Schafer

["Bernie Krause" bigchirp1]

R. Murray Schafer, father of the word "soundscape," just had an
exchange with some folks at Worldlistening, another Yahoo groups
exchange. Herewith and FYI for what it's worth:

"The World Listening Project needs to go farther than just holding a
microphone in front of the soundscape. The recordist has an obligation
to know what is being recorded and to index it carefully=85" He referred =

to the Vancouver Soundscape Project as an example of how field
recording was used not only for aesthetic value, but (more
importantly) for social and historical value.

Murray concluded that, "Technology has made it easy to record. Any
idiot can do it and produce an interesting document. But to produce a
historical recording of value takes time and patience. Many recordists
are merely tourists in the soundscape=97unfortunately."

Bernie



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