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Soundscape was founded as a jazz club in New York City in 1979 by Verna Gillis, a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology.Committed to the ideals of multiculturalism, it aimed to showcase contemporary music and musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds, and provided one of the first multi-cultural performance spaces in New York City.
Hildegard Westerkamp (born April 8, 1946, in Osnabrück, Germany) is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher, and sound ecologist. [1] She is known for her contributions to and development of acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and soundwalks, particularly through her work on the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s and 1980s.
The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology is an international collective of people and organizations who study the world's soundscapes. [6] There are eight groups that make up the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology: the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology, the Canadian Association for Acoustic Ecology, the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology, the Hellenic Society for Acoustic Ecology, the Japanese ...
Publications which emerged from the project include The Book of Noise (1968) [2] and The Tuning of the World (1977), [3] both by Schafer, as well as the Handbook for Acoustic Ecology (1978) [4] by Barry Truax. The project has thus far resulted in two major tours, in Canada and Europe, the results of which comprise the World Soundscape Library.
These 2 works were adapted to become part of the 1993 book, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World - R. Murray Schafer (ISBN 0-89281-455-1) 1977 Five village soundscapes (Music of the environment series) - A.R.C. Publications (ISBN 0-88985-005-4) 1978 Handbook for Acoustic Ecology - Barry Truax (ISBN 0-88985-011-9)
Loren Nerell (born November 30, 1960) is an American composer and performer of ambient American music and Balinese gamelan. [1]As a composer, Loren has written music for film, theater, dance, and interactive multi-media.
Josh Silver (born November 14, [1] 1962) is an American retired musician who is the former keyboardist, producer and backing vocalist of gothic metal band Type O Negative.He joined the band at frontman Peter Steele's request.
The Sunset Sound Recorders complex was created by Walt Disney's Director of Recording, Tutti Camarata, from a collection of old commercial and residential buildings.At the encouragement of Disney himself, Camarata began the project in 1958, starting with a former automotive repair garage whose sloping floor would tend to reduce unwanted sonic standing wave reflections.