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this week we celebrate world listening day 2016. world listening day falls each year on july 18th, the birthday of canadian composer, listener and thinker r. murray schafer, creator of the term soundscape and founder of the world soundscape project. we’re featuring a selection of his works, along with some spoken word. also, a long form dawn chorus recording by eric leonardson, head of the world listening project, and a selection of recordings from past years’ world listening day soundmaps over at the aporee soundmaps. you can browse and/or contribute to this year’s world listening day soundmap here:
find out more about world listening day and this year’s scheduled events and activites, happening around the world throughout this week, here:
http://www.worldlisteningproject.org
[time / artist / track / release / label]
00:00 – 03:29 / emmanuel mieville / framework introduction, recorded in china
http://soundcloud.com/emmanuel-mieville
03:22 – 10:59 / r. murray schafer / [extract] / winter diary / wdr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer, http://www1.wdr.de
10:02 – 14:28 / ricardo huisman / outdoor aircosystem – NDSM yard / WLD2010 / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/projects/worldlisteningday2010
10:52 – 21:07 / eric leonardson / [extract 1] / 2015.07.26 dawn chorus, steuben, WI / –
http://ericleonardson.org
17:51 – 24:21 / dan dugan / summit of bernal hill, dawn / WLD2011 / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/projects/worldlisteningday2011
23:33 – 30:52 / r. murray schafer / entrance to the harbour / the vancouver soundscape / ensemble productions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer
29:47 – 34:55 / j.m. bowers / thou shalt not suffer a witchfinder to live / WLD2012 / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/projects/worldlisteningday2012
33:01 – 41:29 / eric leonardson / [extract 2] / 2015.07.26 dawn chorus, steuben, WI / –
http://ericleonardson.org
37:02 – 44:48 / wu tsan-cheng / one day, shin-shing park, taipei / WLD2013 / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/projects/wld2013
43:18 – 46:36 / r. murray schafer / the music of horns and whistles / the vancouver soundscape / ensemble productions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer
45:47 – 49:46 / francois emmanuel fodere / bats in a cistern / WLD2014 / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/projects/wld2014
46:27 – 51:04 / eric leonardson / [extract 3] / 2015.07.26 dawn chorus, steuben, WI / –
http://ericleonardson.org
50:22 – 59:00 / r. murray schafer / just listen for a minute / – / arte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer, http://arteradio.com
54:44 – 59:00 / jeremy hegge / under a casuarina in winter / WLD2015 / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/projects/wld2015