The Vancouver soundscape 1973 ; Soundscape Vancouver 1996.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Schafer, R. Murray.

Truax, Barry.

Westerkamp, Hildegard, 1946-

World Soundscape Project.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musique concrète.

Sounds--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Sounds.

City noise--British Columbia--Vancouver.

City noise.

Vancouver (B.C.)--Description and travel.

Vancouver (B.C.).

Travel.

British Columbia--Vancouver.

Genre:

Musique concrète.

Musique concrète.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Canada] : Cambridge Street Records, [1997]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

CD 1. Ocean sounds. Squamish narrative. Entrance to the harbour. Harbour ambience. The music of horns and whistles. Vancouver soundmarks. Homo ludens : Vancouverites at play. The music of various city quarters. New Year's Eve in Vancouver Harbour. On acoustic design

CD II. Harbour ambience. Recharting the senses / Darren Copeland. The hidden tune / Sabine Breitsameter. Vanscape motion / Hans Ulrich Werner. Pacific fanfare / Barry Truax. Vancouver soundscape revisted / Claude Schryer. Documentary : the changing soundscape.

Participant:

Contributions by R. Murray Schafer, Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp and others.

Notes:

Includes most of the original recordings published in 1973 by the World Soundscape Project of Simon Fraser University in its study of the acoustic environment of Vancouver, plus new recordings made in the 1990's that show the changes in Vancouver's soundscape in the intervening years.

Recorded 1972-1973 and 1991-1996 in Vancouver.

Compact discs.

Program notes (2 booklets) inserted in container.

Contains:

Soundscape Vancouver 1996.

OCLC:

41343054

Publisher Number:

CSR-2CD-9701 Cambridge Street Records