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World Soundscape Project

R. Murray Schafer's research group at Simon Fraser University that founded acoustic ecology.

The World Soundscape Project group at Simon Fraser University, 1973
The WSP group at SFU, 1973: R. Murray Schafer, Bruce Davis, Peter Huse, Barry Truax, Howard Broomfield, and Hildegard Westerkamp.Source
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Music
Type
Organization
Creator
R. Murray Schafer
Year
1969
Subjects
Perception Space
World Soundscape Project (SFU archive)

Founded by R. Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University in the late 1960s, the World Soundscape Project (WSP) treated the acoustic environment itself as an object of study and composition, producing surveys such as The Vancouver Soundscape (1973) and the Handbook for Acoustic Ecology (1978). Its core researchers — Schafer, Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp, Howard Broomfield, Peter Huse, and Bruce Davis — went on to found the field of acoustic ecology.