Here was a very special ritual ? completely without a sense of striving, and promising no rewards. You wandered about amused and amazed, never sure whether you were there to be entertained or entertai
Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of
Music is central to many of R. Murray Schafer's memories. `One of the sounds that I'd almost forgotten until I began to write this chronicle was the tinkling of the piano keys when my mother used to w