Schafer deserves due credit. Still I think the idea of deep listening has b=
een celebrated throughout the ages by people everywhere - though unfortunat=
ely just not enough of us.
The following quote puts it quite simply:
"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot." Ald=
o Leopold (Sand County Almanac, 1949)
John Hartog
rockscallop.org
--- In Bernie Krause <> wrote:
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> The idea of deep listening -- in the context of soundscapes -- originated=
with the work that R. Murray Schafer (Canadian composer, naturalist, and f=
ather of the word, "soundscape") and his colleagues were doing at Simon Fra=
ser University in the 1960s and 70s which culminated in Schafer's seminal p=
iece titled "Tuning of the World" (1977) and the establishment of the World=
Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE). Their work was influenced, in part, by =
two great European natural soundscape recordists, Walter Tilgner (Germany),=
and Jean Roch=E9 (France) who both began collecting natural soundscape rec=
ordings and writing and speaking about attentive listening in the late 1960=
s. In 1988, Pauline Oliveros, an American composer, started a group called =
the Deep Listening Band and recorded several albums under that rubric. Alon=
g with that of her colleague, John Cage, her message, to a fairly wide audi=
ence, was precisely to listen deeply. Every one of these early proponents o=
f natural sound wrote and spoke eloquently about the disappearing voice of =
the natural world and its altered consequences to the lives of all living o=
rganisms. And, of course, deep listening has always been a major element of=
Zen thought and practice=85for centuries.
>
> A good soundscape recording is an audio example that best represents a se=
nse of place. In the final analysis, it's either a good or bad representati=
on, well-recorded or not.
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> Bernie Krause
>
>
> On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Mark <> wrote:
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm reading Neil Young's autobiography 'Waging Heavy Peace'. What he is=
doing on a fundamental level is promoting listening, by his proposed "Pure=
-sound" project renamed, PONO 24bit 382kbs player and cloud delivery system=
. To me, if the company he has encouraged succeed, this could be a very sig=
nificant and important change environmentally. By starting with your own en=
vironment, a small incremental shift in listening awareness might have deep=
and far reaching implications, long run. His ideas are musical and studio =
recording based, but my God! How I would love hearing exactly what 'you' he=
ar in your original recordings. I know people say in blind studies no one c=
an tell the difference, but I believe even so called experts are not always=
trained to 'feel' music or sound.
> >
> > Klas is touching on something very deep that I have always disagreed wi=
th environmental activism, and that is that individuals must have a shift b=
efore change. I love Gordon Hempton's work for precisely this reason, as he=
laments the quiet disappearing, he is asking us to listen deeply.
> >
> > Mark
> >>
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> >
> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Kraus=
e.
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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